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.

Its ranks hit hard by COVID-19, all ramp workers for American Airlines and its regional carrier, Envoy, are now having their temperature taken at DFW Airport in a race to stop the spread of the deadly virus, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.

NBC 5 Investigates has learned more about what happened in the excruciating hours leading up to the death of a DFW Envoy Airlines ground crew member, one of more than two dozen ramp workers at Envoy and its parent company American Airlines who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the union that represents the ramp workers.

Thirty American Airlines ramp workers at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport have been infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus, at least one has died, and 26 others with symptoms are awaiting test results, according to the union that represents them, raising concerns on why they’ve been hit so hard by the pandemic. Some workers are concerned n...

An NBC Bay Area investigation has discovered tens of thousands of U.S. residents, adopted as infants from foreign countries, and raised in the United States, now face possible deportation – because they are technically not citizens.

Dallas County’s top government official says he’s working to expand COVID-19 testing in low-income, predominantly minority neighborhoods following an NBC 5 investigation that found they are where people are the most vulnerable to the dangerous virus.

NBC 5 Investigates, working with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, obtained an exclusive look into the Dallas neighborhoods where people who get COVID-19 are more likely to develop the most serious infections, requiring critical care and ventilators.