Texas Gov. Abbott Asks Biden for Help With COVID Testing, Antibody Treatments
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (CNBC)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is asking the Biden Administration for help managing the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in Texas.
Abbott on Friday released a statement saying the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) requested resources for federally-supported testing locations in Bexar, Cameron, Dallas, Harris, Hidalgo, and Tarrant counties.
The governor said the state health department has also requested three teams of medical personnel to provide additional support to hospitals in urban areas of the state that do not have DSHS-contracted staff as well as additional allocations of monoclonal antibody treatments to fight the omicron variant and other variants of the virus.
"Detecting COVID-19 and preventing COVID-related hospitalizations are critical to our fight against this virus," said Abbott in a prepared statement. "Testing sites, additional medical staff, and continued shipments of therapeutics from the federal government will help us continue to save lives and mitigate the spread of COVID-19."
COVID Cases Rising Across DFW, Texas
In the last week, the number of new cases of COVID-19 has skyrocketed across the state while hospitalizations in DFW have doubled. The molecular positivity rate reported by the state health department on Thursday was at an all-time high since the pandemic began nearly two years ago.
On Tuesday, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas reported its patient load doubled in just four days. The hospital said staff is preparing to open two more COVID-19 wards by the end of this week.
Dr. Joseph Chang, chief medical officer at Parkland, said most of the COVID-19 patients ending up in the hospital are unvaccinated.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is asking the Biden Administration for help managing the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in Texas. The governor said the state health department has also requested three teams of medical personnel to provide additional support to hospitals . . .
FO abbott. go piss on an electric fence.
Maybe he should recall the 10,000 NG and State Troopers that he deployed last November to build a shipping container 'border wall'.
10,000 National Guard and Texas state troopers deployed to border for 'Operation Lone Star' (borderreport.com)
Oh, and maybe he should rethink his December 2021 opposition to the Federal Vaccine mandate for the NG since he needs to deploy them to mitigate his incompetent Covid policies.
Governor Abbott Condemns U.S. Department of Defense's Vaccine Mandate And Refuses To Enforce It Against Texas National Guard | Office of the Texas Governor | Greg Abbott
Maybe Biden should end the single largest super spreader event in the world, and actually enforce our immigration laws, by shutting down the southern border.
Texas shouldn't have to do the federal government's job; but Biden and the Democrats are too damn incompetent.
Biden should put a federal mandate that all illegal immigrants will be vaccinated. Especially considering Texas has the second largest illegal immigrant population in the US. But seems he can only go full fascist on US citizens.
Considering that 18 to 20 percent of illegals coming into the US have covid. How many of those hospitalized are illegals? That is on the federal government, not Texas.
Tell Biden and the Democrats to do their damn jobs and secure the Southern border.
The way Trump did?
/sarc
he did, on 1/20/21.
Their are nearly no brown immigrant refugees from South of Rio Grande in NY but there are about a million Russians and Yugoslavians and Ukrainians and other Eastern European who overstayed their visas Trump let in still clogged our courts and bidding up housing.
The reason nobody will ever stop it is that immigrants do, have and always will be a net positive for America. What really bothers you is that refugees from South of our border tend to be poor and not white. Still, it is legal and okay to ask for refugee status..
That is a xenophobic LIE.
There is NO evidence that immigrants are part of a 'super spreader event' or ANY size. NONE, NADA.
Secondly, I invite you to post a link to exactly what immigration law you claim that Biden isn't enforcing. I won't hold my breath for your answer.
Propaganda doesn't cut it here Greg. Find some FACTS to post why don't ya.
CBP COVID-19 Updates and Announcements | U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Peculiar that the states with the most Covid cases among CBP Agents happen to be the ones along the southern border.....
Again Greg, you ignore the actual data.
There are just over 21,000 CBP agents. Of that number, just under 18,000 are assigned to the southern border. That's close to 86% Greg.
So, it's NOT 'peculiar that the states with the most Covid cases among CBP Agents happen to be the ones along the southern border', statistically, it's a GIVEN.
Oh and BTFW, TX has more CBP + agents than the 3 other border states combined. Maybe it has more to do with the STATE than the border.
No, I'm not the one ignoring data. Have a nice day Dulay.
Isn't it peculiar that of all of the counties along the border in TX, only El Paso Co. is in the top 10 in numbers of Covid cases? Based on YOUR claims, one would think that every TX county along the border would be inundated.
If you're not ignoring that fact that 86% of the CBP agents are on the southern border, WHY do you think it's 'peculiar' that is where the majority of Covid + agents work Greg?
Greg, I am the only one that has actually posted data so you must be the one ignoring it. Your yahoo link doesn't count, it's unfounded innuendo. You want to cherry pick data from the CBP website but refuse to acknowledge that the data there is based on 86% of the agents being assigned to the southern border. The data to support that fact is on that same CBP website.
Close to 50% of that 86% have gotten Covid. Roughly 27% in Texas alone. I'm not ignoring anything.
That is your claim, correct?
Does it also say how many of our Texas agents are unvaccinated?
I thought agents were federal employees. Do you have some information that indicates that agents in Texas were unvaccinated at a higher rate than the rest of the agents?
C'mon Greg, I asked you first .
You're playing a game with statistics
How so? I don't have any information about what the vaccination rate is in CBP. Do you?
So you're just deflecting then to post your meme again. Got it..
Texas reports more than 1 in 4 COVID-19 tests are positive, a record high, as omicron spreads
As a percentage of population, the cases are fairly low when compared to the rest of the state.
Texas border counties are leading the state in COVID-19 vaccinations | The Texas Tribune
Huh? Wonder why?
yes, all you have to do is type "vaccination rates of CBP agents"...
EXCLUSIVE: CBP Vaccination Rate Increased After Mandate Deadline (shorenewsnetwork.com)
the problem is that of the 12,000 plus positive tests, it doesn't tell you if they were just positive or actually sick
with CoVID-19 or Omicron.
Since only 55 CBP employees out of 64,000 have died ( 0.00085%)
and only 33 TSA employees out of 60,000 have died (0.0005%)
Vaccination rates rise at TSA and CBP ahead of holiday season (thepointsguy.com)
I would say both agencies are doing much better than the general public at 0.018%
cbp has 238 million interactions per year
tsa has 700 million interactions per year
and yet
There are only 21,923 actual border agents now meaning 21% were unvaccinated
Roughly 16% still unvaccinated with 2% at risk for discipline or separation as of Dec 06...
NONE of which gives a hint as to where they work although as Dulay pointed out
the majority of the 21,923 current agents are assigned to the Southern Border
approximately 80% of them.
and the vast majority of those are assigned to Texas.
....
Talking to yourself instead of watching the Rose Bowl?
smh
Carry on SP, carry on...
Go Bears !
So just bullshit then? Mmmmkay
About what Greg?
You asked, I answered, now you deflect with an insult ala JBB?
Have a happy and prosperous New Year
Care to explain that? I honestly have no idea...
Gee, I don't know. Maybe because they aren't as stupid about it as say, the people in Amarillo (where I was born and grew up)?
Riiiiggghhht, you as well S, [Deleted]
Yes, I think that's probably it...
Mmmmkay?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To clarify, almost 9,000 of the almost 18,000 agents working along the southern border have contracted Covid during a year that has had levels of illegal immigration not seen in decades, and you don't think that might be evidence?
Okay, so if it was roughly 21% that were unvaccinated, then all of around 1800 of the roughly 9000 were unvaccinated. Huh?
Yeah huh?
Read it again
11/15/2021 = 21%
12/06/2021 = 16%
Let's see what their next report says.
Remember testing positive is meaningless unless you are symptomatic
or die
Innuendo isn't evidence Greg. Instead of flapping his gums about bullshit, the President of the CBP Union should be actively ensuring that his members are practicing proper Covid mitigation both on the job and at home.
You'll be happy to hear that since the Federal vaccine mandate, 98% of CBP employees are in compliance.
You too Greg!
There's no cure for "Stuck on Stupid":
Well, based on your comments that is pretty obvious...
Yes-- but remember-- they're White!
So Abbott did whatever he could to cause a proliferation of the spread of the virus, and now he wants help to fight it? Biden should make such help conditional on Abbott REVERSING what he did.
Yep, Abutt consistently opposed any COVID preventatives (mask mandates and vaccine mandates) so now he wants Biden to bail him out with COVID treatments.
You said:
Biden should make such help conditional on Abbott REVERSING what he did.
I agree completely.
Abbott must be forced to admit publically that his stance on makes and other Covid19 measures was driven by partisanship and not medical science. Then he gets help after he admits that.
Isn't there a saying about an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?
I say turn the other cheek and give him what he wants. There are some good people in TX like our Sister Mary Agnes
"Detecting COVID-19 and preventing COVID-related hospitalizations are critical to our fight against this virus," said Abbott in a prepared statement. "Testing sites, additional medical staff, and continued shipments of therapeutics from the federal government will help us continue to save lives and mitigate the spread of COVID-19."
Shipments.. from the federal government?
Whoa... wait a second! Wouldn't that be . . .{gasp} . . .Socialism???
In the last week, the number of new cases of COVID-19 has skyrocketed across the state while hospitalizations in DFW have doubled.
On Tuesday, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas reported its patient load doubled in just four days.
Dr. Joseph Chang, chief medical officer at Parkland, said most of the COVID-19 patients ending up in the hospital are unvaccinated.
How could anyone still be unvaccinated?
That's just plain stupid!
Maybe Biden should send him some thoughts and prayers.
Nothin' but net!
Is this tennis?
It's B-ball
Hal A. Lujah just hit a shot from half court.
At the very least!
So what?
If Biden is truly the uniter the left claims he is he should offer federal assistance no questions asked.
No one is holding their breath that Biden will come through.
hold any federal assistance until texas leads the nation in vaccinated population. give anti-vaxer nuts 2 clear choices, succumb to the vaccine or the virus.
There are more residents of Texas fully vaccinated than any other state except California.
cite your proof. alt-media sources disallowed.
Understanding Vaccination Progress - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center (jhu.edu)
Well gee Greg, since TX is the second largest state by population, that would hardly be a laudable achievement.
As a percentage of their population, TX is WAY behind the curve. Of the states with the top 10 populations, only GA and OH have lower percentages than TX. Gee, I wonder what those 3 states have in common?
As of December 30th, 2021 Texas ranks 30th in per cent of population fully vaccinated.
meh, I knew his statement was bullshit.
Well gee Dulay, I didn't claim they were leading in percent. I claimed there were more residents fully vaccinated than other states except Ca. I think it's getting better as far as people getting the vaccine and boosters, around my parts anyway. And yes, I think it's laudable that we have as many vaccinated as we do.
What?
The only shots most Texans want is at their local bars.
There are also more residents of Texas not vaccinated than any other state except California. Fun with numbers!
Yes I know and I stated that stat isn't laudable based on population.
What you think isn't showing up in the stats Greg. Again, compared to the top 10 states, TX has VERY slow growth in the number of vaccines administered every month.
You can think what you want but don't try to claim that Texas' vaccine rates compare well with other states. They don't.
I've only made one claim on this seed, which I provided a cite to as requested. No Texas' rate isn't in the top ten but it certainly seems to compare well with at least 19 other states per @ 5.1.5
LOL I just LOVE that logic Greg, my first laugh of the morning. And guess what, there are more people fully vaccinated in China than there are in the USA, and just like your comment, that means shit.
Ok, so the number of vaccinated versus unvaccinated doesn't mean shit. Perhaps then, the vaccinated should shut the fuck up?
Just questioning the fucked up logic in this thread....
It's not fucked up logic.
Texas has a large number of vaccinated people, because Texas has a lot of people, period.
But raw numbers don't tell the full story.
Texas also has a large number of unvaccinated people.
Texas's vaccination rate is not that good - 56% full vaccination.
Compare that to, say, Vermont, with 77% fully vaccinated.
Other states are doing better. Other states' citizens are making better decisions regarding Covid. Most other states haven't had governments actively courting Covid cases by disallowing or discouraging mask or vaccine mandates.
the fucked up logic you provided?
that's ironic
Right, so the number of people vaccinated isn't relevant unless the number exceeds the amount of... who says again ?
Yes other states are doing better and others are doing worse.
Ok Greg, let's put it this way
The top 10 states account for 156 million citizens (exactly half not counting illegals)
There are 40 states in the Union with less than 9 million residents each, Ok?
Texas has 9 MILLION unvaccinated assholes (in my opinion) out of 29 million legal residents
Roughly 1 in 3.
That's MATH,
you are welcome
Go Bears! finally!
Then maybe the unvaccinated should just continue to fulfill Ebeneezer Scrooge's opinion
But Texas is firmly in the bottom of the pack. Not for lack of access - there have been plenty of vaccine doses for months now.
Texas eschews the available, free vaccine, but wants the expensive antibody treatment and test kits, both of which are available in limited supplies right now.
Now, we'll likely help Texas, even though they aren't helping themselves as much as they should, because it's the humane thing to do. But Texas really should focus on getting people to take the cheap, widely available preventative, so they won't have as much need of expensive, harder to access treatments and test kits.
That's logic.
Okay Split, let's put it this way, Texas has more fully vaccinated residents than any other state than California. Finally...
I keep repeating this because it's ironically relevant.
And Texas has more unvaccinated people than many states have people, period. Those raw numbers work both ways, Greg.
And that negates the vaccinated how?....
It doesn't negate them, Greg. It's additional information that paints a clearer picture of how the pandemic is being handled in Texas. Citing only numbers of people vaccinated gives a much rosier impression than reality.
I keep repeating this because it's ironically relevant.
I visit clients rarely, but when I do, I wear a Cotton Bowl lanyard with my ID on one side and my vax card on the other side.
A woman shopper, no mask, in Kroger challenged me about my vaccinations and asked me what's in it?
She had a CVS bag in the shopping cart.
I asked her what was in the bag and she was adamant that it was none of my business.
I volunteered that I had scripts for Crestor, lisinopril, and a few others and asked her if she knew the ingredients of her
prescription.
As she was turning crimson, I begged off,
But then I did ask why she trusted Bayer aspirin or Tylenol even after the Tylenol scandals years ago
and she said because the government approved them....
and....
I asked that the vaccines aren't approved??
The County lied to me 3 times???
Really?
The only thing to say to someone like this in Texass
is thank you and God Bless You.as you dismiss them.
They know what it means
That's not what's being said here Sandy. The number of vaccinated is irrelevant unless it is an appropriate ratio......
Ridiculous..
The vaccinated are not as likely to need monoclonal antibody therapy. The unvaccinated, of which Texas has way more than its share, are more likely to need antibody therapy.
Texas needs to do better at reducing its number of unvaccinated people to avoid the need for expensive, hard-to-obtain treatments.
This is not difficult.
It's also relevant that Abbott continuously outlawed mandates about masks and vaccines
constantly bucking Federal mandates
but now begs for Federal help?
Very relevant.
And the rest of us have certainly noticed.
It seems those "pull yourselves up by your bootstraps" folks are cutting off their own bootstraps, and asking to use everyone else's.
That's not entirely true. As long as the liquor stores remain open and essential, we'll be drinking our meds in the safety of our own homes.
Works for me.
Total kettle/pot.
My Chiefs lost by a last second field goal to the Bengals 34-31. Damn!
Well I meant the Baylor Bears last night, lol.
But I think the Chiefs are in good shape going into the playoffs.
My Eagles are in but won't last as long as the Chiefs will..
Butt, that's why we watch.
Cowboys lost too, time to put the Eagles flag out ! LOL!
Where you hate the outcome of the game, you at least have to admit that it was a brilliant play.
My mother used to make that same face when I would mess up.
The thing is Greg a few of us here have taken a course in probability and statistics. So when you say more people in TX are fully vaxxed than CA we all ask the obvious question...what's the percentage? TX's population is second only to CA.
Do you mean to say that the number of vaccinated residents of Texas (population over 29 million) is greater than the number of people vaccinated in Vermont (population 623,251)...or even Delaware (Population: 990,334)? Each having less than a million residents.
What could possibly explain why so few people in those two states have such a small number of people vaccinated...compared to Texas ((population over 29 million)?
('Tis an strange phenomenon indeed...a totally unexplainable mystery!
)
I wonder if he has...?
The first course in Statistics I took was required. I hated it-- for some reason I thought it was a waste of time...no practical use, lol! But then I realized the value...took a second one.
Turned out to be extremely useful... use many of those concepts daily.
So it drips with hypocrisy.
Just like the hypocrisy of Sen. Paul voting against emergency aid over and over again after natural disasters everywhere in the US while immediately calling for aid for Kentucky.
That comment connotes that you recognize that Trump's practice of meeting out federal assistance based on loyalty to HIM was intentionally divisive.
That's because, unlike Trump, everyone knows that Biden doesn't deny American's assistance based on who voted for him. That FACT has been proven over and over again last year.
It may behoove you to recognize that Governors from all over the country, of BOTH Partys, praise Biden for 'depoliticizing' the pandemic fight.
Unlike Trump, NO, GOP Governors has to bow and scrape for funding or equipment from Biden.
Kentucky didn't vote for Biden but they didn't have to hold their breath or bow to Biden for emergency aid after the tornados last month.
Biden didn't throw paper towels either.
Not just hypocrisy but selfishness, also. People like this must think "Atlas Shrugged" is a how-to manual on how to get mine but fuck you and yours
Didn't marry Melanoma Trump either!
(Heh
)
Appropriate nickname BTW-- who was it that came up with that lately?
(Al Jizzerror IIRC?)
I understand Texas will receive a huge shipment of Ivermectin.
Ivermectin should be a big help for a horse's ass like Gov. Abutt.
I think it's probably too late for the ivermectin to keep that particular ass from running.
Unlike Trump who would only help the red states, Biden will help every state if he can even if they are loyal to Trump.
Each dose comes with a Clorox chaser.
And that's the definition of a real president
Indeed!
( That ass don't hunt. .to mix a few meataphors!
Yup.
Ivermectin-- Join the herd! Talk to your doctor if you think Ivermectin is right for you.
(The Lincoln Project...)
Who else is sick of the gop's hypocritical bullshit?
They want all the help for their Covid and for their disasters while obstructing everyone else's help...
Texans elected that clown and all of them have done little in regards to the CV. Now Abbot wants Biden to cover his useless hide. They can all pound sand.
abbott is 1 power grid failure from the end of his political career.
I don't see what makes you think that dev. It's become obvious that competence is no longer a standard used by GOP voters to decide who to elect. In fact, it looks like they want their candidates to fulfill their self-imposed prophecy that government is always the problem, never part of the solution.
government is always the problem, never part of the solution
… until they need a solution to their problems.
I'm starting to wonder if Abbott's sudden request for federal pandemic help (after not giving a shit that Texans have been suffering since the start of the pandemic), Friday's release of a 2020 presidential election audit revealing that there was no relevant election fraud in Texas (which I'm sure has Trump pissed beyond measure that Abbott would let that info be released to the public), and the sudden silence/disappearance of Abbott twin, FL Gov. Ron DeSantis (despite it being an election year for him, as well), have anything to do with each other.
He is already a french fry short of a happy meal.
there's a super secret magatard executive circle jerk at mar-a-lardo this week...
your wife sent me a scan of your job offer to be pivot man. congrats. don't forget the latex gloves, safety glasses, and bib this time. there's plenty in her glove box.
Definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer!
About as sharp as a marble.
One might conclude that he's a few cards short of a deck.
He can't even find the drawer.
Don't tell him! It's a trap!!!
I think they should get what they need as soon as Abbott publicly apologizes for being such a shit.
How about this governor? TX gets aid when both you and Paxton resign.
Tex, I have told you on more than one occasion that you are on ignore. Do I have to write it out with crayon before you get the fucking hint? Do you need a Trump pop up book to get it or what?