Every day for the last two weeks, Texas has set a new record for daily coronavirus hospitalizations.

Since the state started keeping track of this metric back in April, this number hasn't

surpassed 2,000 a day until this month, June.

Now the number of hospitalizations, it's over 5,000.

I've seen videos of these lines for testing in Houston.

Yeah, the lines for testing have gotten crazy.

In fact, we've been doing some stories on that.

Ross Ramsey is the executive editor of the Texas Tribune.

They don't have enough testing to test the people who all want to be tested, if that makes sense.

And so you can sit in line for three or four hours and then sometimes you have to wait 10 days

to get the results.

So you could go through almost an entire cycle of having the disease and getting rid of the disease,

not quite, but almost an entire cycle before your test results come back.

And Ross says that for some people, these lines, they're the only clear sign of a pandemic.

Lines to get tested, lines at the big box store.

And if you can't see the virus, can't feel its impact, what do you do about it?

So I've got neighbors that aren't wearing masks.

I mean, when you're just outside, a lot of people don't wear masks, they have them, but they don't

wear them outside.

But when you go into a line at a grocery store and you'll see somebody, you know, and it's like,

what the hell?

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