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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   Across Texas, health officials warned of a growing crisis not seen in months,   
   with more than 10,000 Texans hospitalized and intensive care units stretched   
   thin.   
      
   By Edgar Sandoval and Giulia Heyward   
   Aug. 11, 2021   
      
   SAN ANTONIO — At least two hospitals in Houston have been so overwhelmed with   
   coronavirus patients this week that officials erected overflow tents outside.   
   In   
   Austin, hospitals were nearly out of beds in their intensive care units. And in   
   San Antonio, a spike in virus cases reached alarming levels not seen in months,   
   with children as young as 2 months old tethered to supplemental oxygen.   
      
   Across Texas, health officials warned of overloaded, strained hospitals, a   
   growing crisis not seen since early February, when a late winter wave deluged   
   the state’s health care system. More than 10,000 Texans have been   
   hospitalized   
   this week and at least 53 hospitals were at maximum capacity in their intensive   
   care units.   
      
   “If this continues, and I have no reason to believe that it will not, there   
   is   
   no way my hospital is going to be able to handle this. There is no way the   
   region is going to be able to handle this,” Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, a top health   
   official in Harris County, which includes Houston, told state legislators on   
   Tuesday. “I am one of those people that always sees the glass half-full, I   
   always see the silver lining. But I am frightened by what is coming.”   
      
   In recent days, Texas has averaged about 12,400 new cases a day, nearly double   
   the number seen just two weeks ago, according to a New York Times database. The   
   spike comes as about one in five U.S. hospitals with intensive care units, or   
   583 total hospitals, recently reported that at least 95 percent of their I.C.U.   
   beds were full. One worry about the highly contagious Delta variant, which has   
   fueled surges across the country, is whether it might test the capacity of   
   health systems.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/us/covid-texas-hospitalizatio   
   s-icu.html?searchResultPosition=1   
      
   Greg Abbott needs to be frog-marched into prison.   
      
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