‘Small town, no hospital’: COVID-19 is overwhelming rural West Texas - News Summed Up

‘Small town, no hospital’: COVID-19 is overwhelming rural West Texas


There is just one hospital for 12,000 square miles and no heart or lung specialists to treat serious cases of COVID-19. The Lost Horse Saloon in Marfa, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. With cases soaring across West Texas, the virus may have traveled back with them. Visitation was up 20% at Big Bend National Park in October, park officials said, and on Thanksgiving weekend so many cars clogged the park it caused a traffic jam. Like most people in Marfa, which has accepted masks more readily than some other Big Bend towns, he wore a mask even while outdoors.


Source: bd News24 December 10, 2020 10:52 UTC



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