this is the Tom Hartman program a north Texas hospital has been denied their

request to the state for additional assistance they are overwhelmed with

covid texas and florida those two states account for one third of all the

new covid cases six southern red states account for more than half of all

the new covid cases in the United States carol and antigraphy writing for

the cbs local the Dallas for worth cbs affiliate hospitals in our

texas say they need hundreds of additional staff to deal with the surge of

covid nineteen cases but the state has denied their requests for emergency

personnel this is really grim meanwhile the texas republican party lost one of

their senior officials scott apple he was a member of the uh... state republican

executive committee the very top level of the republican party in texas a week

ago

he posted on facebook five days ago

anti vaccine messages he's been doing this for five months now

for five months regularly on on facebook

scott apple had been publishing stuff about you know masks are a hoax and

and don't worry about covid and the vaccine is dangerous all this kind of stuff

you know he died yesterday a covid but the kicker is

that when the republican party put out there were sad to say that scott apple

he has died that kind of stuff they never once mentioned that he died

of covid

that said if you don't think the right wing sites are basically circling the

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