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Related: About this forum'All the Hospitals Are Full': In Houston, Overwhelmed ICUs Leave COVID-19 Patients Waiting in ERs
HOUSTON Houston hospitals have been forced to treat hundreds of COVID-19 patients in their emergency rooms sometimes for several hours or multiple days as they scramble to open additional intensive care beds for the wave of seriously ill people streaming through their doors, according to internal numbers shared with NBC News and ProPublica.
At the same time, the regions 12 busiest hospitals are increasingly telling emergency responders that they cannot safely accept new patients, at a rate nearly three times that of a year ago, according to data reviewed by reporters.
The increase in ambulance diversions, coupled with the spike in patients being held indefinitely in emergency rooms, are the latest indicators that Houston hospitals are straining to keep up with a surge of new coronavirus patients. ProPublica and NBC News have previously reported that a public hospital in Houston ran out of a medication to treat COVID-19 patients and that a spike in at-home deaths from cardiac arrest suggests that the death toll from the coronavirus may be higher than official statistics show.
On Thursday, 3,812 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the region, including more than 1,000 in intensive care units, a record since the pandemic began. At the same time, since Texas officials have not issued another stay-at-home order to slow the viruss spread, hospitals are also still seeing a steady flow of patients in need of care as a result of car accidents, violent crime and heat-related medical emergencies.
Read more: https://www.propublica.org/article/all-the-hospitals-are-full-in-houston-overwhelmed-icus-leave-covid-19-patients-waiting-in-ers
Garion_55
(1,915 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Because he let trump pressure him into doing this, and it's making all of Texas a disaster zone. I predict Abbott's political future is done from doing this trying to help trump politically.reopen schools there now ? Only a moron would consider doing that.
tanyev
(42,598 posts)and probably saving their damn lives.