RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas—Delia Perez could barely stomach stepping inside the destroyed shell of her home last month. Her mother was the first Covid-19 fatality in a county that would soon see among the virus’s highest per-capita death rates in the state. Then, as the virus raged across South Texas, Hurricane Hanna arrived, reducing to rubble the mobile home where Mrs. Perez and her husband, Gracian Perez, had lived for 37 years and raised two children, destroying nearly all their belongings with water and blasted fiberglass.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 12, 2020 09:32 UTC