As Texas continues a weeks-long streak of setting grim coronavirus records, the most somber one was reached Friday: The virus has killed 3,013 people, according to the Department of State Health Services, ABC 13 in Houston reports.
In response, counties prepare for a surge in fatalities, some by requesting trailers to expand their hospital and county morgue capacities, the station reports.
Among the recent deaths were a Northeast Baptist Hospital patient in San Antonio who was in his 30s, a Grand Prairie man in his 40s, a Garland woman in her 60s who had no underlying conditions, a 73-year-old man who was about to go home from a prison rehabilitation program and a baby boy in Corpus Christi who wasn't 6 months old yet, the station reports.
"That's why we're asking people to wear face masks," Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales told a TV station in Corpus Christi. "I am now having to order additional body bags and morgue trailers. People have to understand how real it is."
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