Hidalgo Pleads For Limited Thanksgiving Gatherings As Harris County's Top Doctor Steps Down
On Tuesday afternoon, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo once again urged county residents to limit their contacts with the outside world ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and as COVID-19 continues to ravage our community.
Due to the troubling trends in the local COVID-19 test positivity rate, steadily rising local coronavirus hospitalizations and a 250 percent increase in the average number of daily new cases in Harris County since late September, Hidalgo begged county residents to only gather for Thanksgiving with people in their immediate households, and to get tested for COVID-19 regardless of holiday plans.
“No one day-to-day change has been dramatic, but if you look at the trends, they’re alarming and they’re deadly,” Hidalgo said.
Hidalgo also announced that her office would send out an emergency alert to all smartphones in Harris County with those two messages, which went out just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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