Prognosis
Texas Readies Morgue Trucks in Preparation for Virus Surge
- FEMA sends 22 units as officials seek places to store bodies
- ‘Why won’t people see what’s happening?’ asks a county judge
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Along the Texas coast outside Corpus Christi, Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales surveyed the sandy Gulf of Mexico beaches packed with swimmers and sunbathers, just the way they are every summer.
Then she went back to her office to order another morgue truck.
Officials across Texas are rushing to mobilize overflow mortuary space as communities brace for a surge in coronavirus deaths following Fourth of July festivities. Already, July has had a succession of record-setting days in terms of new cases, deaths and the number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 as the pandemic takes hold in the state.