Hundreds have died in Hidalgo county, on the Mexican border – but the governor has thwarted efforts to go back into lockdown
Seventy-two death notices sprawled across an entire page of the Monitor newspaper in Hidalgo county recently.
The small-print entries, stacked in five tidy columns, didn’t mention Covid-19. But 27 residents of the south Texas community had died from the virus that day, 22 the day before, and 35 the day before that.
Continue reading…Hundreds have died in Hidalgo county, on the Mexican border – but the governor has thwarted efforts to go back into lockdownSeventy-two death notices sprawled across an entire page of the Monitor newspaper in Hidalgo county recently.The small-print entries, stacked in five tidy columns, didn’t mention Covid-19. But 27 residents of the south Texas community had died from the virus that day, 22 the day before, and 35 the day before that. Continue reading…