In 50 Texas Counties Without Cases, Is It a Lack of the Coronavirus or a Lack of Testing? [View all]
When the daily email from state health officials lands in his inbox, Kimble County Judge Delbert Roberts skips straight to the K’s: Will today be the day, he wonders, that his community will join the majority of Texas counties by marking its first case of the coronavirus?
Even though he’s so far made it to the ‘L’ counties without a blip, he’s more resigned than relieved.
It’s “inevitable,” he said, that his 4,408-person county 120 miles northwest of San Antonio will join those with positive cases. “I would not bet a nickel that some of us haven’t had it and got over it.”
Roberts’ Kimble County is a member of a desirable crowd, its numbers dwindling every day: Texas’ zero-counties, 50 in number, the mostly small, rural communities that have yet to confirm a single case of the new coronavirus. They are remaining socially distant and cautiously optimistic, in many cases following the governor’s broad directives but going no further, hoping against hope their status doesn’t change but knowing it likely will.
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/04/24/in-50-texas-counties-without-cases-is-it-a-lack-of-the-coronavirus-or-a-lack-of-testing
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