As COVID Deaths Soar, El Paso at Breaking Point with Hospitals & Mobile Morgues Filling Up
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: Over 1,700 people died from COVID Tuesday in the United States. It’s the deadliest day of the pandemic in at least six months. As public health officials across the country brace for a COVID-19 surge from the Thanksgiving holiday and already record-high infection rates, some Republican governors are dropping their resistance to mask mandates, including Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, who imposed a limited mask mandate Tuesday. But many of these same governors continue to hold off on implementing other public health measures. In Texas, where coronavirus cases have reached record highs for a second…