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 2000 a day until this month, June.

Now the number of hospitalizations, it's over 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, you know, when you're just outside, you know, a lot of people don't wear masks, they have them, but they don't wear them outside. But when you go into like a line at a grocery store and you'll see

somebody you know, it's like, what the hell? What is July 4th going to look like in Texas this week?

You know, that's a great question. A lot of the current surge in cases is attributed, you know,

at least initially to Memorial Day.

Memorial Day was a little bit crazy. You got pictures of beaches and pictures of the parks and

pictures of people out and about and doing the kind of crowd things that they'd been avoiding

since the coronavirus really kind of

came on the radar. So the question on the July 4th weekend is how are people going to act?

And are they going to be out and about? And how does that, what does that do to the surge

that we're already seeing in the numbers for COVID?

Today on the show, will Texas be able to contain the coronavirus?

And what will it take?

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