Texas is now tied with California for the most confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country, latest NBCNews figures show.
as hopes for a fresh round of fiscal aid to help the millions of Americans left jobless by the pandemic fizzled.have come down with a case of Covid-19 and 767 have died, a new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states.Monday that more testing is the reason for the dramatic rise of new cases.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern elaborated on that point in a Fox News interview. Dr. Armando Meza, who works at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center of El Paso, said that while the city had some spikes in cases early on they felt they had largely dodged the pandemic bullet. He said they spent much of the summer advising medical professionals across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
“Part of it is a sense of just sadness, some of it is fear, some of it is a sense of empathy for my former colleagues in the health care community,” she said. “They are getting slammed.” Texas is one of 42 states across the United States that have seen a worrisome increase in coronavirus cases over the past 14 days, NBC News statistics show.
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