Texas officials ask US government for mortuary trucks as Covid cases rise

[Judi Lynn]

Officials requested trucks from Fema as a ‘precaution’ while coronavirus deaths in the state have tripled in the last two weeks

Jessica Glenza
@JessicaGlenza
Tue 17 Aug 2021 14.05 EDT

Health officials in Texas said they have asked the federal government for five mortuary trucks, as Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise in the state.

A fourth wave of infections in the US, driven by the Delta variant, has overwhelmingly hospitalized and killed the unvaccinated.

The Texas request comes at a complex stage of the pandemic, when about half of Americans are fully vaccinated, vaccine mandates are increasingly common and an official announcement about Covid booster shots is expected in days.

Texas officials said they requested the trucks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or Fema, as a “precaution”, given rapid and widespread Covid-19 transmission.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/17/texas-coronavirus-covid-cases-mortuary-trucks

[Dan]

1. You what, I am looking at the number of new cases for Texas and Florida.

The number of deaths for one of them - based on the number of new cases - something is off!!!

[Skittles]

2. COURTESY OF ABBOTT should be on all of the trucks

fuck that fascist piece of shit

[world wide wally]

3. You know something is wrong when the Governor's first concern is how to transport the dead bodies

Wake the fuck up, Texas.