Hidalgo County, TX with it's mega-sized families in shacks reports nearly 100 times more COVID-19 yesterday than Maine

[Kibby]

Originally Posted by michiganmoon

Isn't that a busy highway county on the border with Mexico? I wonder if more people passing through helps the spread too.

BINGO!

I posted about this last week .... The Northern Border area in Mexico has exploded with Covid19. They never practiced any Social Distance or Masks. Add to that ... while the Border is supposedly closed, that means only to tourists. American Citizens live across the border ( cheaper), shop across the Border ( cheaper) and Mexican Citizens with Entry papers cross regularly.

News reports are that they are calling ambulances to take them to the border and then a US Ambulance to take the ill to US hospitals for treatment. That at least one of the reasons that the Border areas in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California are reporting so much Covid-19.

[DorianRo]

Originally Posted by Ceece

Hispanics are getting his particularly hard by this virus. I don't know what can be done to stop that though.

Obesity/Diabetes is big in that population. Probably a huge contributing factor

[Oldglory]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

They are also Catholic which is one reason for the large families.

Yeah well, the Catholic Church allows for birth control now. It's more of a cultural thing to have large families rather than their religious beliefs. Unfortunately, far too many of them end up on the public dole to support their broods.