Hidalgo County uses the case status definition provided by the Texas Department of State Health Service’s 2020 Epi Case Criteria Guide revised November 2020.
EDINBURG – No one will ever know how much alcohol, if any, that Carlos Rodriguez Santiago had in his blood stream when he slammed his pickup truck (allegedly) into 18-year-old Edinburg resident Lorena Perez and her companion, a minor, at approximately 9:35 p.m the night of Aug. 1.
This story isn’t local, but it could be, because those still spouting anti-vax rhetoric, as was the case at a recent Hidalgo County Commissioners Court meeting, are almost as common as a breakfast taco. Only difference is, COVID-19 can kill you quicker than a taco, which usually requires decades before enough cholesterol and fat have time to sufficiently clog your arterial walls.
No longer a parent of school-age children, I still find myself pondering the question, how would I have han dled this pandemic back in the day?
EDINBURG – Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez invited President Joseph R. Biden to come to South Texas “to witness first-hand the challenges being created by current (immigration) policy.”
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