Texas Doctors Reverse: Cancel State GOP Convention

The Texas Tribune reports:

The Texas Medical Association on Tuesday called on the Republican Party of Texas to cancel its in-person July convention scheduled to take place in Houston, one of the country’s coronavirus hot spots. The latest development comes one day after The Texas Tribune reported on the Texas Medical Association’s sponsorship of the convention, an indoor gathering that is not requiring masks of the 6,000 people expected to attend.

On Monday, TMA told the Tribune that it would not rescind its sponsorship and had not called on the Republican Party to cancel its convention. In an open letter to party leadership Tuesday, Dr. Diana Fite, TMA president, cited the growing number of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations in Harris County as a reason for the Texas Republican Party to cancel its Houston convention. The county has the highest number of cases and deaths in the state.

TMA Calls on Republican Party of Texas to Cancel In-Person Convention in Houston. #covid19 https://t.co/DZKucAKbyj

— Texas Medical Association (@texmed) June 30, 2020

“This is just not the time to bring thousands of the party faithful from around the state to an indoor meeting in a county that, as I write, reports more than 18,000 active #COVID19 cases.” ⁦@TMA_Pres⁩ to ⁦@TexasGOP⁩ https://t.co/DZKucAKbyj

— Texas Medical Association (@texmed) June 30, 2020