Texas Rio Grande Valley Suffering COVID-19 ‘Worst Case Scenario’ | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rachel Maddow highlights the situation in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas where the coronavirus outbreak has surpassed the available medical resources, forcing officials to make grim decisions about potentially lifesaving care. Aired on 7/23/2020.
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Texas Rio Grande Valley Suffering COVID-19 'Worst Case Scenario' | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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    1. @Wigg Licker TRUMP KNEECAPPED AMERICAS EMERGENCY PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE FROM THE TIME HE ENTERED OFFICE.

      WE COULD BE ENJOYING LIFE RIGHT NOW without covid-19 in the huge numbers we see today

      3 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WHERE COVID-19 IS UNDER CONTROL
      VERY LOW NEW DAILY CASES

      Medical science and public health did this

      KIDS GOING TO SCHOOL, BUSINESSES REOPENING, HOSPITALS EMPTY

      Countries:
      CANADA, EU, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, TAIWAN, S KOREA, CUBA, CHINA, VIETNAM ETC

    2. @Eric Vercruyssen TRUMP KNEECAPPED AMERICAS EMERGENCY PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE FROM THE TIME HE ENTERED OFFICE.

      WE COULD BE ENJOYING LIFE RIGHT NOW without covid-19 in the huge numbers we see today

      3 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WHERE COVID-19 IS UNDER CONTROL
      VERY LOW NEW DAILY CASES

      Medical science and public health did this

      KIDS GOING TO SCHOOL, BUSINESSES REOPENING, HOSPITALS EMPTY

      Countries:
      CANADA, EU, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, TAIWAN, S KOREA, CUBA, CHINA, VIETNAM ETC

    3. @Carol It’s alright, Carol, my hearing is just fine, thank you for asking. No need to “yell” 😉

  1. No, that cant be true because Trump stated that cities have what they need to handle the virus. Dont worry it’ll go away…eventually…he hopes

    1. MORE THAN HALF OF THE COUNTIES IN THE US HAD ZERO ICU BEDS BEFORE COVID
      THE MAJORITY OF THE REMAINING COUNTIES ONLY HAD 1 ICU BED

      TX HAS THE MOST COUNTIES WITHOUT ICU BEDS

  2. Abbot still is pushing schools to open. When teachers, students, and their ,families start dying Abbot will smile once again and say “I didn’t know that it would spread through schools so quickly”.

    1. @Nicolas thecaged 99% survival rate?
      Yeah when theres space in the ICU’S
      Plus theres more pandemics out there if we open our borders without checking👀

    2. MORE THAN HALF OF THE COUNTIES IN THE US HAD ZERO ICU BEDS BEFORE COVID
      THE MAJORITY OF THE REMAINING COUNTIES ONLY HAD 1 ICU BED

      TX HAS THE MOST COUNTIES WITHOUT ICU BEDS

    3. @Doctor James TRUMP KNEECAPPED AMERICAS EMERGENCY PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE FROM THE TIME HE ENTERED OFFICE.

      WE COULD BE ENJOYING LIFE RIGHT NOW without covid-19 in the huge numbers we see today

      3 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WHERE COVID-19 IS UNDER CONTROL
      VERY LOW NEW DAILY CASES

      Medical science and public health did this

      KIDS GOING TO SCHOOL, BUSINESSES REOPENING, HOSPITALS EMPTY

      Countries:
      CANADA, EU, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, TAIWAN, S KOREA, CUBA, CHINA, VIETNAM ETC

    1. It’s not only Trump. He has millions of enablers and supporters. The USA is probably finished.

    2. Arthur, oh yes some of them care. Do you think the CIA or the FBI or the Military are going to let this clown take us down? I don’t think so. The military has already signaled to Trump that they are not behind him when it comes to using the military as his lackey’s. The military defend the Constitution, not Trump. He really messed up with sending the DHS to Portland. Now, there are more protesters than there were before. Jesus Christ, they pepper-sprayed the Mayor of Portland. The protesters dared the Mayor to join them in a peaceful protest. It was peaceful but they were pepper-sprayed anyway.

    3. Actually none of them are in charge, WE are so it’s our job to clear them all out peacefully or by force if need be per our constitutional rights.

    4. @Jim Battersbee Therefore vote blue!!! Every vote is important! Don’t vote for third parties this time. Unite to end this nightmare!

  3. Trump doesn’t want you to do mail-in voting. Trump and his family do mail-in voting. Trump wants you to send your kids to school. Trump and his family aren’t sending their kids to school. Trump and his family are going to live. Thousands of families like us are going to die.

    1. They had a bunch of kids 9 yo, 11 yo, 16 yo, with no underlying condition dying in Australia, and more and more young people in ICU… But hey, Republicans know best.

    2. It only takes one person who is asymptomatic to come in contact with one of their family and it’s Goodnight Irene. Don’t get me wrong I don’t wish this virus on anybody. Not even Trump or his family.

    1. https://youtu.be/-xM9r0Y4FM8
      Philly block party with thousands and no masks cops join in. But you cant go to church or a funeral or school or work or a wedding or the gas station without a mask and distancinh ! Different laws for the Democrat marxist blm racists.

      Queens new york
      Same sh** different day. No masks no distancing. Do you see where this marxist agenda is going ?
      https://youtu.be/cjfqFlXuckk

    2. MORE THAN HALF OF THE COUNTIES IN THE US HAD ZERO ICU BEDS BEFORE COVID
      THE MAJORITY OF THE REMAINING COUNTIES ONLY HAD 1 ICU BED

      TX HAS THE MOST COUNTIES WITHOUT ICU BEDS

    3. Frank Winkhorst unfortunately so many polio patients are now getting post polio syndrome. It comes back to bite you as you age. My Doctor had to retire bea of post polio syndrome. Scary thing is no one knows what may happen in the future to people that “recover” from COVID-19.

    1. Person,Woman,Man Camera,TV he didn’t change his mind. This only showed he will say anything to win, even if he doesn’t believe it.

    2. @D If you really believe this is BS, then if you ever need surgery, you better ask the surgeon and the nurses to not wear masks during this surgery. You do not want your surgeon not getting enough oxygen.
      Operators in the clean room of sterile manufacturing wear masks during their work in the clean room, construction workers wear if needed dust masks to protect their lungs; asbestos workers are wearing masks; cowboys used to cover their faces with a scarf to protect theit lungs for dust; Travellers in the dessert wear masks or a scarf to protect their lungs from sand, if it is freezing outside people tend to cover their face with a scarf to prevent freezing. None of these people ever ran into trouble because of lack of oxygen.
      A mask can feel uncomfortabel (warm, itchy, maybe you smell your breath if yoy ate garlic) because you are not used to cover your face. However, that is only for a short time.

    3. @Ray L Great that busenesses do take their responsibility. Kind of sad that so many politicians are not doing the same in an effort to protect citizens. Trevor Noah has a great video on the subject where he compares the response to the spanish flue pandemic with this pandemic in the USA. The same mistakes are made in the USA. Federal government ignoring the pandemic and citizens refusing to wear masks.
      Good luck to you, hope in the end everything works out to be OK.

    4. Kwarkol I hate to say it, but it will get worse in the fall, when seasonal flu hits. There’s a segment of the population that refuses to get the flu shot and that combined with Covid 19 will increase deaths. In Canada doctors are already predicting an increase of deaths in the fall when another wave hits and more people are inside in crowded environments. We will probably go back into lock down.

    5. @Kwarkool TRUMP KNEECAPPED AMERICAS EMERGENCY PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE FROM THE TIME HE ENTERED OFFICE.

      WE COULD BE ENJOYING LIFE RIGHT NOW without covid-19 in the huge numbers we see today

      3 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WHERE COVID-19 IS UNDER CONTROL
      VERY LOW NEW DAILY CASES

      Medical science and public health did this

      KIDS GOING TO SCHOOL, BUSINESSES REOPENING, HOSPITALS EMPTY

      Countries:
      CANADA, EU, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, TAIWAN, S KOREA, CUBA, CHINA, VIETNAM ETC

    1. Bummer, only Native Americans matter anyway, the rest of you are welcome to return to the land of your forefathers.

    2. @B G – Supporting China is the Capitalist thing to do.

      You are a capitalist aren’t you BG. Or are you a Commie?

    1. Because his first instinct is self-preservation, and more often than not in tRump’s case, it means to lie.

    2. Yes, because the stock market overall is still performing well. That is all they care about. 💰 If they have to walk over millions of dead Americans on their way to the bank to drop off their piles of 💰 so be it.

    3. some people got only 1 thing to do, and they did BS all over the place, but you need to see the bright side, for now the US goverment is killing only US citizens…something rare, but it helps to make the planet more peacefull..!

  4. Why can’t politicians who through their actions or inactions cause the death of someone be criminally prosecuted. Abbott needs to go to jail for what he is doing.

    1. I am afraid it is not illegal to be incompetent. If you work in a company and show this amount of incompetence, you are fired on the spot.

  5. This trump plague
    First symptoms.
    Lying, oozing, irritation, blindness, deafness, lack of taste (not loss of taste) and disappearance of the spine and the death of America.

  6. Trump, “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”

    He meant it’ll disappear WITH the dead bodies. It’s a miracle!!

    1. One spot all across America. Americans are smarter than you think. MSM Cherry picking when National averages still have the mortality rate still dropping. It is very curious how the peaceful protests (forward thinking mob violence) is overlooked by MSM. They look the other way and ignore CV19 when it comes to the riot events in Portland or anywhere else. Why is this PROTEST spread of the disease not covered? The handling of these terrorists is so obviously political! Democrat ran Blue States and the MSM glass over the spread of the disease, the violent destruction of property and the threat to the public for political purposes. How can anyone vote for condoning this type of behavior? https://www.walkawaycampaign.com/ Stand strong against these tactics America!

    2. @Pam Deshane because the statistics should you bother to look them up say that most of the protesters are wearing masks and they are also outdoors where it is harder to spread the virus then when you are indoors like in a rally or concert or bar! Outdoor spread is minimal!

  7. This is insanity. Not only do you have no government, none, but the morons that are there are making it worse. Actually making it worse.

    1. One spot all across America. Americans are smarter than you think. MSM Cherry picking when National averages still have the mortality rate still dropping. It is very curious how the peaceful protests (forward thinking mob violence) is overlooked by MSM. They look the other way and ignore CV19 when it comes to the riot events in Portland or anywhere else. Why is this PROTEST spread of the disease not covered? The handling of these terrorists is so obviously political! Democrat ran Blue States and the MSM glass over the spread of the disease, the violent destruction of property and the threat to the public for political purposes. How can anyone vote for condoning this type of behavior? https://www.walkawaycampaign.com/ Stand strong against these tactics America!

  8. Abbot and DeSantis have drank the koolaid and will support Trump over the health of those they serve.

    1. The American people need to pulling their heads out where the sun don’t shine and listen to the warnings

    2. @Amortalman There are followers and then there are leaders, Without a strong leader the followers ignore The warnings.

  9. Sure we’re making America great, sure we are. Texans are suffering terribly and where is our president? Praising himself day after day. Having been an RN in critical care for 30 plus years in America, I’ve never seen anything like this. Prior to Covid-19; weeks to months on ventilators were unheard of other than teaching hospitals, and even there were rare. When organs start to fail while their on ventilators for months, I see this as a nightmare scenario. Health plans and MCR must be reeling from the bills. They must be calling Trump begging him to relieve them of the burden of Covid 19 bills for in some cases over 100 day stays. Is this why Trump is still trying to take away Medicaid and Obamacare in the midst of a pandemic. Well we know where his interest lies and it’s not in any way good for the country. It’s all about profits and power.

    1. @Joshua Ceaser The border is still closed, sheesh, you liars never cease to amaze me as to how low you’re willing to go. The numbers spiked after the re-opening.

    2. @Tidbit Yes it is open. My mom and my sister went across two weeks ago. I have tons of friends that went to go eat. Also look at the data, the numbers spiked 6 weeks AFTER May 1st. Data is on my side AKA the truth.

    3. @Joshua Ceaser uh, the data proves that I’m right. See the slight bump in the first half of the data, it goes down in the lead up to May 1st. By may 10th there are suddenly 10 cases, then it exponentially grows going forward. You do know what exponential means right?

    4. SOOOOOOO MANY TROLLS AL for this one comment!!! 😄😄😄 Pathetic.

      Hopefully you are all going mask-less to as many COVID parties as you can.

      Keep injecting the Lysol, hillbillies! YEEEEE-HAAAAAAW!!! 😄😄😄 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  10. It is ironic that the wall is protecting Mexicans. Yet, these Texans are still supporting the clown. This is the great America the voters created.

    1. Let’s recall that he didn’t win the popular vote even with Russian help. Our system was broken and it allowed this piece of turd an important position. We Americans don’t want him in the White House. It’s a large amount of idiots that want him
      In paper but that is dwindling by the day.

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