Here’s how the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded in Texas since March
BY ELVIA LIMÓN | The Texas Tribune
March 1, 2020
San Antonio bans evacuees
The novel coronavirus made news in Texas just two months into 2020. In February, San Antonio’s Lackland Air Force Base began housing people who had been overseas and exposed to the new coronavirus.
Weeks later, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg declares a public health emergency over COVID-19 and demands that 120 people who were expected to be released from a two-week quarantine at the base be held longer for additional medical testing. He also bans quarantine evacuees from entering his city.March 2, 2020
San Antonio sues CDC
San Antonio city officials sue the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a suite of other federal agencies, asking a federal court to immediately raise the standards for releasing people quarantined at Lackland Air Force Base because of potential exposure to the new coronavirus. A federal judge says the court shared “the concerns expressed” in the lawsuit but shoots down the request.