Austin (AP) – Texas has surpassed 10,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients for the first time. The new marker wrapped up the deadliest week in Texas since the pandemic began. Texas’ Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, joined forces in a letter asking the nation’s Health and Human Services secretary to set up a field hospital in the Rio Grade Valley. Hospitals have become overwhelmed with patients along the Texas-Mexico border, and doctors say they’re running out of room.