Texans are now paying for Gov. Greg Abbott's rash decision to open their state too early last month. Hospitals in Houston are now at over-capacity and we're probably weeks away from any peak.
Abbott now expresses "regret" for reopening too early, and has closed the bars. No word yet if he'll personally pick up the tab for all the unnecessary funerals.
Source: Raw Story
CNN’s Miguel Marquez on Monday delivered a sobering report from a Houston hospital that has been flooded with patients infected by the novel coronavirus.
In a dispatch from Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center, Marquez talked with medical professionals who say their facility is being overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who have come down with the disease.
“The last three weeks, I have seen more admissions and sicker patients than on the previous ten weeks,” explained Joseph Varon, the chief medical officer at the United Memorial Medical Center. “So it’s been an exponential increase on the severity of illness and in the number of cases we admit.”
Tanna Ingraham, an ICU nurse who works at the facility, told Marquez that she recently came down with the disease and warned people that it should be taken very seriously.
“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” she said, before describing the intense pain she’s experiencing all over her body.
And then there's this bit of worrisome news from Greg Abbott's Texas. Bad COVID-19 metrics starting to flood in? Simply stop recording them. via the Houston Chronicle:
Texas Medical Center hospitals stopped updating key metrics showing the stress rising numbers of COVID-19 patients were placing on their facilities for more than three days, rattling policymakers and residents who have relied on the information to gauge the spread of the coronavirus.
The institutions — which together constitute the world’s largest medical complex — reported Thursday that their base intensive care capacity had hit 100 percent for the first time during the pandemic and was on pace to exceed an “unsustainable surge capacity” of intensive care beds by July 6.
