‘We’re in a crisis stage’: Texas border city reels from coronavirus surge

Donald Trump told a campaign rally on Saturday that the US was wasting money on coronavirus tests, claiming mass testing was only inflating the number of cases and fueling a media obsession while, in reality, “you don’t see death”. But El Paso is seeing too much death right now. Local funeral director Jorge Ortiz has been forced to put an overflow of bodies into a chapel at one of his six funeral home locations. “We actually converted one of our…