85 infants who have not even had their first birthdays tested positive for Covid-19 in Nueces County, Texas.
As the Lone Star State quickly emerges as one of the epicenters for the pandemic, local officials are urging people to take the situation seriously.
Nueces County is known because it is where the city Corpus Christi is located in. Although the spread of the pandemic seemed to flatten out since the initial months, the numbers have drastically increased in July, echoing what is happening in many Southern states.
Director of public health in Corpus Christi, Annette Rodriguez, urged people to adhere to recommendations by health officials. Saying that 85 babies who have not yet even celebrated their first birthdays tested positive for the virus, she asked people to wear masks and socially distance.
Because Rodriguez did not disclose the current or accumulated health status for the infants, it is not clear how serious the symptoms are for these babies.
Another official from Corpus Christi said that the conditions in Nueces County is deteriorating at an alarming rate even in the state of Texas. In fact, of all the metropolitan counties, the spread of the virus was quickest in Nueces over the last seven days.
It is possible that many residents of the County do not fully understand the dangers or risks of Covid-19 because Nueces County remained relatively unharmed by the global pandemic prior to this month.
So far, 8,100 Corpus Christi residents have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, in which 82 of them passed away as of this writing.
The situation seems as bad, if not worse, in other counties in Texas. For instance, in the counties of Cameron and Hidalgo, local officials are getting hold of refrigerated trucks in case the morgues fill up too quickly.
Despite the state’s famous libertarian bent, some local politicians have asked Texas Governor Greg Abbot to give local administrative bodies more jurisdiction over health measures. This may include the jurisdiction to mandate all residents wear a mask when outside.
Some blame the skyrocketing number of patients in the South to a rushed reopening process. With no treatment of vaccine yet available, they believe it was a rash decision that verged upon hubris.
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