TEXAS COVID19 - RECOVERY - Governors in every state are eager to reopen their economies. And Texas is no exception---The key to the Texas economy recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic is avoiding a second wave of cases. That's according to Ray Perryman, president and CEO of The Perryman Group, an economic analysis firm. He spoke yesterday at an online event organized by the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce.
"We don't want to do this twice. Obviously we need to get the economy up and going and running again, as best we can, as soon as we can, but not at the risk of creating a second wave of this," explained Perryman. " Because we have a very resilient economy, and we can come back from a lot of things, but if we had to open up and shut down again in a couple of months, I think that would be a very difficult situation."
This Friday Governor Greg Abbott is expected to outline his plans for re-opening the Texas economy. He's already said it will be a slow process and recently has asked for more healthcare workers in case they’re needed for a potential surge in Covid-19 cases. Abbott has asked healthcare workers to sign up on a volunteer Covid-19 registry website.
"We’ve not experienced a shortage of health care workers yet," Abbott said. "But as COVID-19 may continue to impact our state, we want to encourage all available medical personnel to register with the Texas Disaster Volunteer registry at Texas.gov.”
According to the latest state data from Texas Health and Human Services (dated 04.21.20)--Texas has surpassed 20-thousand confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 517 deaths.
