The City of Lubbock COVID-19 Dashboard is currently reporting 121 new cases for Wednesday, July 28.This is the highest number of new cases per day reported by the City of Lubbock, since January 28.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department will work with LISD to offer school vaccinations as well as Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to students and parents on August 6, at Monterey High School, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday the City of Lubbock Health Department will have a free vaccination clinic inside Holy Spirit Catholic Church at 9821 Frankford Ave.
Dr. Ashley Sturgeon is a Dermatologist at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. Her specialty is skin cancer surgery, and she’s learned that especially around here, farmers are a common target for skin cancer.
Dr. Jason Loos, a pathologist at Covenant Health, chose not to get vaccinated. He and his family were doing fine until one of his children got sick during the last week of school. After 8 days of fever, he woke up unable to breathe and had to take his first-ever ambulance trip to the hospital.
“We can make COVID now preventable. We have vaccines, we have a tool. Now, we did not have this tool a year ago, we have this tool to create immunity in our community,” Health director Katherine Wells said.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department will work with LISD to offer school vaccinations as well as Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to students and parents during the month of July.
So far, West Nile is not showing up in Lubbock or anywhere on the South Plains. However, if your summer travel takes you to the metroplex, you should know that West Nile has been identified in mosquitos there.
The Hamsmith’s 18 month old daughter, Reese, was hospitalized for weeks after swallowing a button battery. She died 7 weeks later. Now, 6 months later, her story is getting attention nationwide.
We’ve talked a lot about what high heels can do to your bones, especially if you stumble. But this time of year, the danger is not just how high up you are but how much your foot is exposed.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department will work with Frenship ISD to offer school vaccinations as well as Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to students and parents during the month of July.
Dr. Michelle Tarbox is a Dermatologist and Texas Tech Physician. She says researchers have discovered that poison ivy is a bigger threat today than what you might have been exposed to as a child.
The City of Lubbock Health Department and Frenship Independent School District are teaming up to provide a children’s immunization clinic on Thursday, July 1.
Summer usually brings about a decrease in donations as people are often more busy. That’s only been exacerbated as the pandemic winds down. Anyone who’s recovered from COVID-19 can donate and there is no waiting period for those who’ve had the vaccine.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department will offer first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines as part of a Community Block Party-Farmers Market* in the Depot District on Saturday, June 26.
After an emotional year of concern over COVID, Dr. Warner says it’s time to remember that a little sting from this bug can also be life changing if that mosquito happens to carry West Nile...
The New Mexico Department of Health today announced a $100 incentive for New Mexicans who complete their vaccination series or receive a single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccination through June 17.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department’s Street Outreach Group will offer free HIV and Syphilis testing to members of the local LGBTQ+ community during this weekend’s Pride festivities.
A woman who identified herself as a nurse practitioner student tried to defend an Ohio doctor’s unproven claim by proving she actually is magnetic after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
The City of Lubbock Health Department will host a free COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Wednesdays throughout the month of June at Southcrest Baptist Church, located at 3801 S. Loop 289.
If you know of someone 18 or older with special needs, Camp Abilities will be June 7-10, Camp Sports N’ Fun will be July 5-8, and the overnight Camp High Point will be August 6-8.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department will work with LISD to offer school vaccinations as well as Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to students and parents during the month of June.
On Saturday, June 5, Covenant Children’s, in partnership with Covenant Medical Group, will hold a COVID-19 drive-up vaccine clinic for kids age 12 and older.
The City of Lubbock Health Department and Broadway Church of Christ will host a free COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Wednesday, June 2, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. It will be held at Broadway Church of Christ at 1924 Broadway Avenue.
He survived COVID-19, a triple bypass and 40 years of caring for women, but today was a really hard day for Dr. Michael Owen, a long time OB-GYN, as he said goodbye to his last patient.
The City of Lubbock Public Health Department is teaming up with the YWCA and St. John Neumann Catholic Church to distribute free COVID-19 vaccines this Saturday, May 22.
Per a directive from Texas Tech System Chancellor Tedd Mitchell, an executive order by Governor Greg Abbott, and recent guidance from the CDC, we will be revising our campus COVID-19 protocols.
Following approval by the FDA, the CDC and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the Lubbock Health Department administered its first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations to children ages 12 and older Thursday at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.
Citibus is hosting two mobile job fairs next week. The first will be at the TJ Patterson Library on Monday, May 17th and the second on Wednesday, May 19th, both from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
After celebrating 50 years of the Texas Tech University School of Medicine, it’s time now to recognize another milestone... 40 years of educating nurses through the School of Nursing at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.
