Six COVID-19 Deaths and 86 New Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Cases Reported in Maverick County During Third Week of September 2020, Bringing Cumulative Total to 121 Deaths and 3,633 Cases
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County, Texas officials reported a total of six new COVID-19 deaths and 86 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases during the third week (September 12-18) of September 2020, bringing the cumulative total to 121 deaths due to COVID-19 and 3,633 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases.
On Friday, September 18, 2020, Maverick County reported no new deaths due to COVID-19 and only 13 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases while sporting a positivity rate of 20% and 23 people currently hospitalized at the Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center in Eagle Pass, Texas.
On Thursday, September 17, 2020, Maverick County reported one new death due to COVID-19 and only 12 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 20% and 26 people hospitalized locally.
On Wednesday, September 16, 2020, Maverick County reported no new deaths due to COVID-19 and only 10 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 20% and 26 people hospitalized locally.
On Tuesday, September 15, 2020, Maverick County reported one new death due to COVID-19 and only 27 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 20% and 24 people hospitalized locally.
On Monday, September 14, 2020, Maverick County reported three new deaths due to COVID-19 and only 27 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 20.9% and 29 people hospitalized locally.
Maverick County officials have touted the decrease in number of new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases during the past month while acknowledging that testing for COVID-19 in the community has significantly decreased. But what has not decreased is the very high infection rate of transmission of COVID-19 known as the “positivity rate” in the community. The positivity rate remains very high at 20%.
While Maverick County Emergency Operations Center and Local Health Authority officials have been religiously following the CDC Guidelines on COVID-19 testing and quarantine procedures, the elephant in the room was finally busted open this week when the CDC reported that their COVID-19 Guidelines for COVID-19 testing and quarantine procedures had not been written by its scientists but rather by President Donald J. Trump appointees from HHS seeking to minimize the impact of COVID-19 in the United States in order to help Trump in his re-election campaign strategy.
This stunning breaking news confirmed that President Trump and his White House administration have been manipulating the devastating COVID-19 numbers during the past month to decrease the rage and anger of American voters against President Trump’s negligent and reckless mishandling and disinformation of the severity of COVID-19, as well as the lethality of the virus on its victims, recording more than 200,000 deaths in the United States. Trump knew since January 2020 that COVID-19 was the deadliest virus to hit the United States and it easily was transmitted via airborne, but instead chose to intentionally downplay the coronavirus so as not to “panic” the American people, leaving 330 Million Americans vulnerable to the deadly COVID-19.
Maverick County officials like thousands of other public health officials across the United States have all been intentionally duped by President Trump and his administration into following doctored and watered-down CDC Guidelines for COVID-19 testing and quarantine procedures as part of Trump’s re-election campaign strategy. This disinformation campaign is totally devastating and reckless disregard for the health and safety of American human lives.
The result of Trump and his administration’s takeover of the previously prestigious CDC Guidelines has led to decreased numbers of reported new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases and testing procedures nationally before the dreaded November 3, 2020 Presidential Election, as well as COVID-19 quarantine procedures. This is the calm before the perfect storm that is about to hit the United States with the next wave of COVID-19 infections in the fall and winter, predicted to be worse than the spring and summer season. Maverick County is no exception. Now is not the time to let our guard down.
