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TexasTowelie

(112,386 posts)
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 03:05 AM Sep 2021

Doctors Say Texas Leaders Failed To Stop COVID-19 From Spreading

Texas schools have amassed more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in students in just a couple of weeks. More than a dozen school districts have closed temporarily as a result of the disease, and Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.

But state leaders have spent weeks of the surge pushing through controversial bills around abortion, voting restrictions and bail reform while Gov. Abbott has been fighting local governments over their efforts to stem the spread of the disease.

Hospitals across the state are running low on pediatric intensive care unit beds. Texas’ Department of State Health Services says only 81 of them remain — and just a couple hundred more regular ICU beds are available in the state of 29 million people.

“Governor Abbott has failed us. A republican state legislature has failed us," said Dr. David Portugal a cardiologist in Sugarland, Texas. “These leaders should be held accountable and be asked to explain how they can justify taking actions that are killing their fellow Texans.”

Read more: https://www.tpr.org/texas/2021-09-03/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading

It doesn't take a medical degree to reach such an obvious conclusion.

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Doctors Say Texas Leaders Failed To Stop COVID-19 From Spreading (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2021 OP
How about... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #1
YES--THIS The Blue Flower Sep 2021 #2
Fuck you dead, Greg Abbott. (nt) Paladin Sep 2021 #3

2naSalit

(86,769 posts)
1. How about...
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 06:44 AM
Sep 2021

They fomented and conspired to infect the public with a deadly virus through purposeful neglect and willful action to increase the spread.

Crimes against humanity.


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