As the pandemic deepens in Texas, @AP spent a day at a Houston hospital inundated by coronavirus patients.http://apne.ws/xPbNybH
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"We’re going to get into situations like Italy did, like Spain did, like New York did just a couple of months ago,” said Dr. Joseph Varon, board chairman at United Memorial Medical Center, a small north Houston hospital. http://apne.ws/efk5ri9 pic.twitter.com/LMt2XOXiM7
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Texas has recorded more than 2,670 deaths and more than 200,000 confirmed cases of the virus. While rising case numbers partly reflect more testing, Texas has a positive test rate of 13.5%, more than double the rate from a month ago. http://apne.ws/pRzWDXQ pic.twitter.com/s1rX3dawGY
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Nearly 80% of the state's hospital beds are in use, and intensive care units are filling up in some of its biggest cities. http://apne.ws/RTgp2SM pic.twitter.com/SSEzVRWfDz
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United Memorial, already near capacity, could soon be filled, Dr. Joseph Varon says, as he and other hospital workers brace to see what 4th of July celebrations might bring. http://apne.ws/f8lw2FE pic.twitter.com/SLEGpuXV42
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Because of lag. Their covid hospitalizations went from 1600 on May 31st to 9700 today.
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Yet our deaths are still much lower than New York. But scary headlines because it’s Texas.
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The medical field has learned so much about this virus since March. How about being thankful it didn’t hit your state the same way it did on the east coast and Midwest. I don’t understand what is wrong with some people.
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As they packed like sardines into pews, I envisioned bad mid-July news. Headlines now (alas!) read that more thousands will need ventilation, else they all turn blue.
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New cases = good. New deaths = bad
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...What?
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