Posted on 06/09/2020 12:32:29 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Texas has reported two consecutive days of record-breaking Covid-19 hospitalizations as the state continues to open businesses and resume activities that were temporarily shuttered due to the coronavirus.
There are currently 2,056 patients sickened with Covid-19 in hospitals across the state as of early Tuesday afternoon, up from a record 1,935 patients Monday, according to updated data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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How many have died?
Dja ever notice that Texas has a special place in the hearts of liberal news makers?
#KeepTexasRed oops I’m not on Twitter here
Hidalgo will put her jack booted bans/closings back on just as soon as the Floyd funeral and After Funeral March is over..
Texas has a population of 29 million.
3,935 new cases isn’t even a sniffle. Most likely just the people who would have gotten sick without the insane lockdown.
That would not lead to an increase in hospitalizations. Measuring hospitalizations is a good way of filtering the noise. People go to hospital because they are actually sick. When there, they get tested, so we know who is actually positive.
A spike in positive test results is normal when we increase testing, because we detect the mild symptoms and asymptomatic people.
A spike in hospitalizations would happen even if we stopped testing, because it is people actually getting sick and going to hospital for their problems.
Could also be activists purposely clogging the hospitals with phony symptoms to advance the narrative.
Yes, but I am sure Abbott is panicking.
Sarcastiball had nothing on No-Touch Football
Location, location, location - much more important than state totals.
“2,000 people in a state with millions? Give me a break!”
According to our Governor, Texas has 2107 ICU beds available statewide.
(https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/HOSPITAL_BED_CAPACITY_SLIDES_FINAL_4.3.20.pdf)
As of today, around 1500 out of 2107 ICU beds are occupied.
You are assuming that hospitalization precedes testing, rather than positive testers self-hospitalizing upon diagnosis. Perhaps you are correct but I suspect it is more of the latter. If not, then mea culpa.
Amarillo has lot of meat plants and they have become a hot zone.
Wife got a note from HS friend who is a dr in Houston. He basically said that his hospital started filling up 2 days ago with otherwise healthy 30 yo adults with COVID
EVERYTHING they've ever said is a scam and this is no different.
The virus has a 7day, 10 day, 14 day, 30 day, 45 day incubation period and it can't live on hard surfaces, in the heat, longer than a few minutes, a few hours, a few days or a few weeks .................
And we've been open only a few days
Could also be activists purposely clogging the hospitals with phony symptoms to advance the narrative.
No, it couldn’t. Phony symptoms would not test positive for Covid. It would be helpful to know the severity of the cases, though. I assume they would not admit patients who are asymptomatic or have very mild cases, but that would depend upon the hospitals’ protocol.
“IMO, cases can rise. It’s about managing the cases that come in.”
More testing equals more cases and more cases equals more hospitalizations.
The left has lost again this time on fabricating a pandemic using fear porn dutifully dished out by their media pals and Drs Fauxci and Birx.
“He basically said that his hospital started filling up 2 days ago with otherwise healthy 30 yo adults with COVID”
Protestors? Maybe.
FYI, in Travis County about 50% of total cases are people under 40.
Are they in border counties? Who is going to the hospital? Old people? Immigrants?
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