Texas passed a grim milestone on Friday, with the state officially recording its 60,000th death due to COVID-19.
State health officials reported 377 deaths on Friday, pushing the Texas COVID-19 death toll to 60,357.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, one in 480 Texans have died from COVID-19.
Texas has the second-most COVID-19 deaths in the country, only behind California.
Deaths dropped in the spring after a deadly winter, but have accelerated again statewide in the past two months due to the spread of the delta variant.
Just 49.4 percent of Texans eligible for the COVID-19 shot are fully vaccinated.
donsanedrin on September 19th, 2021 at 06:52 UTC »
I remember last year that Greg Abbott was basically saying that Texas will not be New York when it comes to COVID deaths.
We have over 5,000 more deaths than they do. And the majority of their 54,000 deaths occurred before the end of May 2020 when hospitals were still figuring out the best way to treat the virus.
Especially with the 9/11 anniversary having just occured, it really shows the hypocrisy.
When around 3,000 people from New York died on 9/11, a whole bunch of people from Texas and other Southern states repeatedly went around saying "we were attacked."
"WE we attacked."
When 30,000 New Yorkers died when COVID hit New York, those same people from the Southern states simply said "oh, well thats New York" and they didn't give a single shit.
Phildesu on September 19th, 2021 at 05:50 UTC »
My sister died from Covid about a week ago. She wasn’t vaccinated and was in an older demographic. Finally the rest of my family is for the first time taking getting vaccinated seriously, this is what it took 🙄
uniquedeke on September 19th, 2021 at 03:58 UTC »
My mother died recently (Alzheimer's) in Harris county.
We were having trouble getting a date for a funeral. All the churches she wanted are booked.
She died about a week ago. We finally got a church booked today for the first week of November.