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Texas gov asks hospitals to postpone elective surgeries due to COVID-19 spike
NY Post ^ | 08/10/2021 | Samuel Chamberlain

Posted on 08/10/2021 5:52:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state’s hospitals Monday to consider postponing all elective surgeries Monday in order to combat a surge in hospitalizations due to COVID-19.

In a letter to the Texas Hospital Association, Abbott asked medical centers to “to take steps to ensure the availability of adequate hospital capacity to care for COVID-19 patients.” In addition to rescheduling elective procedures “for which delay will not result in loss of life or a deterioration in the patient’s condition.”

Abbott also ordered the opening of five new centers to provide antibody treatments for COVID-19 in addition to an existing facility in Lubbock.

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KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; deltavariant; elective; hospital; surgeries; texas; wherearetherapeutics
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To: Codeflier

You are assuming that most of Texas looks like the urban squalor cities. We don’t play by the same rules in my 100,000+ city. School starts next week. No masks required. I went to Lowe’s and several other stores yesterday. No masks. Church. No masks. Jury Dury Monday. No masks. It has been this way since the early spring. The commie dictators all live in the Gotham Cities of the world. I am quite positive that Atlanta would be the same.


21 posted on 08/10/2021 7:42:11 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He didn’t learn a thing.


22 posted on 08/10/2021 7:56:24 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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To: C210N

Most of the articles I read say Hospitals WILL BE to capacity. It’s more of a prediction.


23 posted on 08/10/2021 8:02:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: AU72

// That got a lot of people killed the last time.

That doesn’t matter. Any death can be added to the fake chicom flu stats, to drive more tyranny on the part of the government.

They really do not care one tiny bit if you and I die. As a matter of fact, right now, they’d prefer it and will work as hard as they can to make sure it happens.


24 posted on 08/10/2021 8:30:40 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: mewzilla

// WTH is Abbott doing?!

He’s a RINO who loves fear porn.


25 posted on 08/10/2021 8:32:26 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: crusty old prospector

The fact is, in 2020 Abbott instituted a statewide mask mandate. We never had that in GA. I agree, I am sure Atlanta was a mess. Don’t go down there really except for the airport.


26 posted on 08/10/2021 9:27:51 AM PDT by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeh you don’t really need that knee replacement. Just take a pain pill.


27 posted on 08/10/2021 10:29:00 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Abbott needs to go!


28 posted on 08/10/2021 10:52:34 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When in our history have surgeries been mass cancelled because there was a cold going around?


29 posted on 08/10/2021 2:44:46 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: ChicagoConservative27

this thread is TROLL CITY


30 posted on 08/10/2021 2:48:20 PM PDT by txhurl (whoa)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

According to the State of Texas:

Hip replacement is elective
Hernia surgery is elective
Kidney stone is elective
Melanoma removal is elective

Basically, anything that you don’t go straight from ER to OR is considered elective.


31 posted on 08/10/2021 3:47:47 PM PDT by mooncoin
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To: Codeflier
During much of that time during the summer of 2020, TX was in a lockdown frenzy. Abbott is a control freak corporatist.

Yep. They found Abbott’s price last year when they got him to shut down bars, limit restaurant capacity and impose mask mandates. People are *still* plenty ticked off about that.

32 posted on 08/10/2021 3:52:56 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, he might not have a clue about Covid, but at least the energy supply is solid, right?

It’s just the flu, bro
/sarc


33 posted on 08/10/2021 4:29:44 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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