Expert ‘mortified and disgusted’ by Texas reopening plan; it ‘will kill Texans,’ says top Democrat

News that the governor of Texas, Republican Greg Abbott, will lift the state’s face mask mandate and allow businesses to fully reopen on March 10 was met with a wave of alarm on Wednesday, as health officials warned the U.S. is not out of the woods yet, even as the vaccine program looked set to get a needed boost. iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said the move is “extraordinarily dangerous” and “will kill Texans.

Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician who is head of the Columbia University National Center For Disaster Preparedness, said he was “mortified and disgusted” by the Texas move, which he called “completely reckless.” She said the recent deadly winter freeze in Texas that left millions of people without power — forcing families to shelter closely with others who still had heat — could amplify transmission of the virus in the weeks ahead, although it remains too early to tell. Masks, she said, are one of the most effective strategies to curb the spread.

“Just because we’re not getting 4,200 fatalities in a day we’re quote unquote ‘only getting 2,000 fatalities a day’ that’s still horrible, really horrible,” said Redlener. “So we should not minimize where we are or somehow say, now we’re at a place where we can get back to normal. We cannot.” In other news: • The U.S. government stopped a clinical trial evaluating convalescent plasma as a treatment for people with mild to moderate forms of COVID-19, saying the experimental treatment likely has no benefit to these patients, MarketWatch’s Jaimy Lee reported. Convalescent plasma is blood plasma gathered from people who have recovered from COVID-19; that plasma, which carries COVID-19 antibodies, is then given to people who are currently sick to help them recover from the disease.

• Slovakia has become the latest country to impose a curfew in an effort to contain one of the world’s highest mortality rates, AFP reported. Slovaks will be asked to stay home from 8.00 p.m. to 5.00 a.m., according to a government decree. The country of 5.4 million has the world’s highest rate of COVID deaths at 24 per 100,000 people, according to an AFP tally.

China, where the virus was first discovered late last year, has had 101,027 confirmed cases and 4,836 deaths, according to its official numbers.

It will not kill Texas. I live there. Lifting masks are wonderful. If you want to wear one, then wear one. If not, don’t.

Haha they call politicians an experts in lie.

This whole 'government knows best' thing is a crock. If government gets out of the way, Individuals and businesses will do what needs to be done and in the process we will move forward.

Democrats don’t like it, leave Texas.

Lol at the chairman of the Democratic Party

Do they think we can’t see that Florida has been open and no big problems?

'expert' lol

Tell that expert to take a hike

“Expert”

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