A Priest, An Editor And A Mariachi Player Talk Life In The Rio Grande Amid COVID-19
Their work and lives have been upended in this region devastated by the coronavirus, and where poverty and preexisting conditions like diabetes, hypertension and obesity are prevalent.
A priest, a newspaper editor and a mariachi musician — they've all had their work and lives upended in a corner of the country that has been devastated by the coronavirus.
More than 2,000 people in the Rio Grande Valley in the southern tip of Texas have perished in the pandemic.
The population of 1.4 million is beset with poverty and preexisting conditions like diabetes, hypertension and obesity. The rate of infection in the four counties that make up the RGV is The specter of death or illness from COVID-19 has become a grim fixture of everyday life in the Valley.
