El Paso (WBAP/KLIF) – Governor Greg Abbott is sending a surge team of medical professionals to El Paso to deal with an ongoing wave of COVID-19 cases. The 75 doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists will be accompanied by a supply of extra personal protective equipment to help El Paso hospitals meet the rapidly increasing number of coronavirus infections in that city. The team will be in addition to 169 professionals the state has already sent to the area. The state estimates that El Paso County’s active COVID-19 cases soared from almost 4,000 on October 1 to just over 6,000 ten days later.
