Burmese refugees living in Dallas travel to work at Tyson’s Sherman plant using DART vehicles, raising concerns about spreading the virus on their commute.

At least 220 workers at the Tyson Foods plant in Sherman have tested positive for COVID-19, with some of those infected living in surrounding communities throughout Dallas-Fort Worth, NBC 5 Investigates has confirmed.

An NBC 5 investigation has helped more than a dozen North Texans in their efforts to receive unemployment benefits, but problems persist for others still waiting for relief after being tossed out of their jobs by the pandemic.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that a group that has drawn the ire of the federal government for selling what it called a “miracle” cure for COVID-19 has ties to North Texas and a small town 80 miles east of Dallas.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned more than 10,000 consumers have complained of price gouging at stores across Texas since the start of the COVID-19 crisis.

NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 have been nominated for a 2019 Peabody Award for “The Invisibles,” a news program that looked at the stories of children born in Texas – U.S. citizens – unable to obtain medical care or education when their parents return with them to Mexico.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned that neither the state nor Dallas County know the total number of people who have been tested for the coronavirus – statistics vital in helping track the movements of the deadly virus.

Despite the surge in COVID-19-related deaths and illnesses in Texas nursing homes, the state has no dedicated pipeline for getting the protective equipment to those facilities to help them battle the virus, leaving them to wait in line with others as the mortality rate grows.

In a scene strikingly similar to a war-time military field hospital, the Federal Medical Center prison in Fort Worth has erected huge tents on its sprawling campus to help deal with what has become the state’s largest cluster of people sick with COVID-19.

In just one day, 2.2 million people called the Texas Workforce Commission, or tried to call, each trying to file for unemployment after losing their jobs to a pandemic-driven financial meltdown.

American Airlines announced Monday it would begin handing out masks to passengers in May, a move that doesn’t go far enough, according to the union that represents American pilots.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned staffers at the Terrell State Hospital were not quickly notified, as required by state policy, when several patients there tested positive for COVID-19.

Several nurses at one of the state’s largest hospitals told NBC 5 Investigates they were shocked to learn of a new proposal on how to extend the life of N95 masks, by putting used ones in trash cans to be cleaned, then re-issued to other nurses.