/PRNewswire/ On Monday, April 4, Texas Restaurant Association President and CEO Dr. Emily Williams Knight and Chief Public Affairs Officer Kelsey Erickson.
By Nik Rajkovic
Feb 25, 2021
In spite of falling COVID numbers, Harris County remains under a stay home code red and Judge Lina Hidalgo refuses to lift her order keeping bars closed.
Word came down from Gov. Abbott s office this week that bars could reopen and restaurants can increase capacity to 75-percent in Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Galveston and Brazoria counties.
“If we were to say alright come one come all, time to encourage more gatherings once again, those hospitalization numbers would begin to climb up once again,” Hidalgo responded Monday.
She later released the following statement:
“We’re far from life back to normal in Harris County. We’re still seeing hundreds of positive cases per day, a sky-high positivity rate, and high hospitalization percentages that cannot be the starting point for yet another wave. Every time there has been a reopening, that has been followed by a spike in hospitalizations. If we start the climb now, we’d be starting fro