COVID patients overwhelm Texas hospitals, amid 'hair on fire' crisis

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Hospitals across the state of Texas are once again finding themselves buckling under the pressures of an overwhelmed health system, with an average of more than 1,700 patients a day currently streaming into emergency rooms across the state.

The United States is now reporting a five-month high average of 800 deaths per day from COVID-19, with the delta variant accounting for nearly 99% of all new cases nationwide.Hospitals across the state of Texas are once again finding themselves buckling under the pressures of an overwhelmedsystem, with an average of more than 1,700 patients a day currently streaming into emergency rooms across the state.

"There are many patients that are not doing well," said Dr. Shawn Nishi, an associate professor of critical care medicine at UTMB."It's very chaotic, because these patients are very unpredictable. At one moment they look great and the next moment, they're dying. ... It is a 'hair on fire' time in the ICUs."

MORE: Front-line workers in Nevada say they are 'reliving 2020' as new infections surge to highest point in 5 months "This is real. And I say every day I wish those people could take a walk through these units, and see what these patients are going through," Leyva said, referring to the unvaccinated. There are 678 patients waiting for a bed across southeast Texas, with more than 4,000 patients hospitalized across the region, compared to just 138 patients in ICUs with COVID-19 at the beginning of July, according to the Southeast Texas Regional Advisory Council.

 

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They will start charging those who refused vaccines soon.

Probably because they keep firing nurse now

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GovAbbott are you taking notes?

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We’re getting close to where the first thing they’ll look at is your age and if you’re age X and over. They’ll assume your chances of surviving is very little and they’ll just send you home. If you’re age X and younger, they’ll do what they can to save you.

Go tell your problems to you're Governor. Oh. Wait. He does not care or know anything about anything. Nevermind.

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It’s a big state

Abbott has this folks. Nothing to see here in Texas.

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Talk to their governor at the ballot box by voting him & his followers OUT!!

how many are Illegals or worked w illegals that this goverment not testing or isolating the infected and then you bus these infected across the country. A child would now this would lead to a problem. yet the leaders in place are that ignorant of the facts

Their fearless leader did it for them they should be thankful their generous king gave them so much business.

Overwhelmed by thousands of ILLEGALS with Covid!

Get the president to send in support. President Trump made sure hospitals were set up and ventilators delivered to states that needed it. Why isn’t Biden doing that? He’s off the hook. Biden should send in backup to put up temporary hospitals and National guard to support folks

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more abc BS

To cross the state border don't need a passport. Can refer to FBI ?

More proof that Darwin's Theory Of Evolution is alive and kicking ass in Texas!!!

You have the unvaccinated & your Gov to blame. Oh and remem he just made it harder for you to vote him out.

Here’s another thought. No Vaccine….. give them Ivermectin and send them home.

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Fake news

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Welp

For profit hospitals always work short and have too few beds but they had a whole year to set up for a pandemic

Can't be true, they don't have covid in Texas

Way to go Texas !!!

This is what happens when semi-sentient life-forms rule.

Why bother treating the unvaccinated? Apparently science doesn't work, right?

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good luck

4 week lockdown $600 a week to each of us national eviction moratorium testing masks vaccination hospitals are buckling nationally

Id like to say im surprised..... but im not anymore

Please let the unvaccinated cretins that seek medical assistance because they got infected treat themselves. They keep making the point that they know better than epidemiologists and doctors. Perfect time to prove it.

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Short staffing ? Nobody is working thats part of the problem. I live in a state where basically no shut downs occurred and my best friends wife is a ER nurse and she quit because she knew the government was gonna lock everyone down again and stress them out JS…

Tell their Governor...same as Florida...they have medical and scientific degree's in Covid....💩

Blame Abbott

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