Texas county grapples with surge of coronavirus cases

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/CBS News

El Paso, Texas — The nation's top health officials are warning we could be entering the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic. El Paso County is one of the nation's coronavirus epicenters, where it has reported more than 22,000 new cases in the last two weeks. Texas has now surpassed one million coronavirus cases, which is the most in the nation.

Cases are rising in 47 states — and this week, there could be a record number of hospitalizations.

This is what it's come to in El Paso: mobile morgues filled with a backlog of bodies. And it's not enough — there will be 10 of the trucks in the next few days.

At the Perches Funeral Home, Nena Macias showed us a room filled to capacity. They have 220 people awaiting burial or cremation, most died of COVID-19.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-county-grapples-with-surge-of-coronavirus-cases/ar-BB1aQRyL?ocid=msedgdhp

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This illustrates the limits to RW conspiracies and talking points trying to ignore facts and science.

[progree]

1. Daily new cases, 7 day moving average, per 100,000 : El Paso County: 215, Texas: 30

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/texas-coronavirus-cases.html
The number 1 county in Texas in this metric (daily new cases per 100K, 7dma) is Childress County: 1191. Population 7,000, on the east side of the northern Texas panhandle.

Dunno why. None of it sounds out of the ordinary for Texas. If anything, it's probably more "Anglo" than Texas on average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childress_County,_Texas
67.70% White, 14.09% Black or African American, 0.33% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 15.70% from other races, and 1.83% from two or more races. About 20.47% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

About 13.70% of families and 17.60% of the population were below the poverty line,