A growing number of Hidalgo County residents are cautiously breathing with more confidence as deaths, hospitalizations, and serious illnesses from COVID-19 — as of late March 2022 — had dramatically dropped since the first case of the potentially-deadly virus was confirmed in the region on Saturday, March 21, 2020.Exactly two years later — on Tuesday, March 21, 2022 — leaders from throughout the county gathered at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance to observe the first of what is scheduled to be an annual and solemn public event: Hidalgo County COVID-19 Memorial Day.The multi-denominational ceremony, hosted by DHR Health, was ...