Monday Borderland Area Closures and Delays Due To Winter Weather
On Sunday morning, El Pasoans woke up to a winter wonderland with plenty of ice and snow on the ground. The weather conditions made driving treacherous and people were asked to stay home instead of venturing out for Valentine s Day. By Sunday evening, some areas saw the snow melt and refreeze overnight turning to black ice, and other areas just saw the snow continue to accumulate. No matter what part of town you re living in, expect delays and closures to affect your morning commute.
Here are the most up-to-date delays, closures, and cancellations for the Borderland:
Amarillo clinic staff volunteer to help vaccinate community
Amarillo clinic staff volunteer to help vaccinate community By Ryan Cross | February 9, 2021 at 6:23 PM CST - Updated February 9 at 6:34 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Staff at an Amarillo clinic are busy volunteering to vaccinate the community.
Members of multiple departments from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have spent 16-hour days providing 10,000 vaccines to our community.
These physicians, nursing or front staff have had to be pulled away from their regular duties to help at the clinic.
“It takes a lot of people to do that and those are people who already had jobs, they have patients they need to see, but we’ve had to pull them away to allow them to help, the urgent demand in the community to get people vaccinated,” chairman of the family and community medicine at TTUHSC.
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Virtual reality isn t just for gaming. Researchers can use virtual reality, or VR, to assess participants attention, memory and problem-solving abilities in real world settings. By using VR technology to examine how folks complete daily tasks, like making a grocery list, researchers can better help clinical populations that struggle with executive functioning to manage their everyday lives.
Lead author Zhengsi Chang is a PhD student that works in the lab of Daniel Krawczyk, PhD, deputy director of the Center for BrainHealth®. Along with Brandon Pires, a researcher at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the team investigated whether VR can be used to effectively test a participant s executive functional load, or how much information a person can process to achieve a goal. Their findings were recently published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports.
The city of Amarillo’s public health department reported an increase of 88 total COVID-19 cases in Potter and Randall counties from Tuesday in Wednesday’s COVID-19 report card.