When President Donald Trump first announced his plan to re-open the U.S. in coming weeks, he laid down one particular metric recommended by CDC and some of the top medical experts in the country: It’s safe to re-open, provided a particular jurisdiction -- whether it be state, county, or town – can point to the available data and see that a downward trajectory is present in either the number of documented cases of COVID-19 (the SARS-CoV-2 virus) or the percent of positive cases.
Looking at the numbers, neither of those scenarios seem present in either the state data or the Hidalgo ...