‘The virus doesn’t respect dates on the calendar,’ Judge Hidalgo says on the day Texas begins reopening

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HOUSTON — As Texas reopens, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo urged everyone to continue to be cautious and stay home, if possible.

She pointed out that Texas reported 50 deaths on Thursday, April 30, the most since the pandemic began in mid-March.

“Fifty Texans — brothers, sisters, parents, grandparents, sons and daughters — had their lives cut short yesterday from a single, invisible killer that…