Texas is reporting 8,500 cases? That's a low number for a highly populated state.

[shockey80]

How much testing are they doing in Texas, anybody know.

[cayugafalls]

1. According to this article we are well below average in testing per 100,000

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/04/06/coronavirus-test-rates-surge-some-states-remain-far-behind-others/2933692001/

Between our governor and lt governor we are not going to see real numbers for some time. Not sure if we will ever know the truth.

[Mike 03]

5. That's a great link.

Thanks for posting. As suspected, my state Arizona is well below average (but lot as low as Texas).

[GusBob]

2. I always look at the percapita

A quick glance at world of meters indicates Texas is near last in the country in tests per 1million pop

Edit: dead last for states, only PR is lower

[exboyfil]

3. I think the wave hasn't hit there yet

Apparently they are screening travelers from Louisiana now.

Deaths are at 5/million. I think that is the best indicator. Per capita cases is too tied to amount tested.

[duforsure]

4. 85,357 tests so far

Texas has 29 million people. Looks like they don't have enough tests either but you'll never hear Abbott speak up about it.

[uponit7771]

6. Nowhere near 1% of population like S Korea or Germany have done.

[MagickMuffin]

7. After Easter those numbers should start climbing

Since churches are "essential" there will be more infected people walking around. Dallas is planning a march thru downtown.

Meanwhile state parks are closed by order of the governor.

So, to clarify: everyone can pack into a crowded church, but you cannot go to a state park because of distancing.

You see what we're dealing with here. Looney Tunes.

[Initech]

10. The religious right is going to get a whole lot of people killed over this.

[MagickMuffin]

13. I say we just lock them in their churches until ???

They definitely don't deserve to go about life as usual while infesting everyone around them.

It just makes no damn sense.

[Ilsa]

8. It's strange that their reported cases for today (so far)

are exactly the same as yesterday at 174.

[imavoter]

9. Not much. It's under reported

also, don't forget we have some of the highest uninsured numbers.

Many counties have shut down, but cases are still growing.
It will be a while before it peaks.
Dallas County Judge Jenkins is a hero because eveone else, including the Gov were/are dragging their feet.
Dallas County drive through testing is open
to anyone. Google Jenkins if you want to keep up.

I was tested, but came back negative.
I'm in neighboring county. I went
to a privately owned urgent care.

[Brainfodder]

11. Republican state just doing what Death Count Donnie wanted; don't report #'s?

Will be pretty obvious if the case numbers there stop all together, and they are stupid enough to do that?

[LizBeth]

12. Yesterday I was told there is a drive thru testing in the panhandle. Two weeks ago I was told

numbers are not being counted. There were four in the hospital but the people lived outside the county line so they were not included in the numbers.

All the info I have on Texas.

[Rstrstx]

14. That is true

They use the county you live in and not the county you're hospitalized or die in for the official record.

[pnwmom]

15. I personally know people in TX who should have been tested -- they are sick

and were closely exposed to known cases -- who haven't been tested.

I don't know what it takes to be tested there, but there is little testing being done.

[Skittles]

16. governor is a HUGE Trump humper

yup

[SoonerPride]

17. You can hide the tests but you can't hide the dead

and those are coming soon.

texas will be another new work state