Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo calls for pullback on reopening as Covid-19 cases increase

Amid recent growth in local coronavirus cases and the testing positivity rate, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo believes a pullback on business reopening measures is necessary.

Speaking in a virtual fireside chat with H-E-B President Scott McClelland during her second Greater Houston Partnership State of the County presentation Nov. 12, Judge Hidalgo said that the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic are nowhere near over for the nation’s third-most-populous county. She cited recent increases in daily…