The coronavirus pandemic has been criminally handled by the Trump administration. In recent weeks, Texas has surged past California to become the state with the most cases of confirmed COVID-19 infection. Texas has also had a much higher rate of infection than California has. Now its rate of death is increasing as well.
A little over a week ago, El Paso officials were talking about needing and receiving a third mobile morgue as the county issued a two-week shutdown and stay-at-home order in the hopes of stemming the spread of the virus. Now, KFOX14 reports that the same judge who signed that stay-at-home order is considering extending it. The reason is because El Paso has had a surge in coronavirus deaths and the county now needs 10 mobile morgue units to handle the deaths.
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According to the report, El Paso officials have a “backlog of 85 bodies,” and Judge Ricardo Samaniego is seeing evidence that hospitals are not in a position to handle the continuing surge of cases. “It doesn’t look good. It may be as much as 20 per day the next two to three weeks. There might be more and more an incline of deaths.”
Meanwhile, according to KFOX, Republican officials, under Gov. Greg Abbot, sued to have Judge Samaniego’s order struck down. Judge Samaniego’s order was upheld by a district court judge on Friday, but that, and a rising body count, has not deterred Republican officials from pursuing this decision in the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals. Trying to save human life is not the Republican Party brand. Think about that for a minute.