Texas hospitalizations increase for 10 consecutive days

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

With Texas in its third stage of reopening and new coronavirus cases rising in the Sun Belt of the U.S., recent data from the Texas Department of State Health Services shows consistent increases in hospitalizations across the state.

Reported by Business Insider, hospitalizations associated with the coronavirus in Texas have been rising since June 11, moving from 2,008 to 3,409 by June 20.

Similarly, the testing positivity rate has been generally growing since June 13, reporting at 9.51 percent.

On June 16, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) stated that increases in hospitalizations are not a total by-product of COVID-19 infections.

Read more: https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/504050-texas-hospitalizations-increase-for-10

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I know Republicans want to blame testing to argue that there is really no increase, but what about hospitalizations?

Perhaps Trump will now demand that hospitals stop admitting patients, because it makes him look bad.

[mucifer]

1. he should tell people to stop dying because it looks bad for him

[LizBeth]

2. I pay attention to hospital beds too. The whole purpose of shut down was to not inundate hospitals.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Abbot said Texas has plenty of hospital beds for Trumpvirus patients/victims.

Abbot said Texas has plenty of hospital beds for Trumpvirus patients/victims.

https://www.google.com/search?q=abbott+enough+hospital+beds&sxsrf=ALeKk03ncU_SWJpefnwaAISu1mDND1-Atw:1592871680252&ei=AEvxXuPlDvKyggfmxKugBw&start=0&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwjj5bG11ZbqAhVymeAKHWbiCnQ4ChDx0wN6BAgLECs&biw=885&bih=404

[ananda]

5. That's not true. Period.

nt

[Igel]

9. Houton's an outlier in both caseload and hospital capacity, so it's certainly not normative.

However, Houston's Texas Medical Center is also overflow for adjacent parts of the state.

https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/total-icu-bed-occupancy/

Updated just about daily.

[Botany]

4. Gov. Greg Abbott stated, "that increases in hospitalizations are not a total by-product of COVID-19"

And there it is the end result of Ronald Reagan's killing of the Fairness Doctrine and now
we have had 2.5 generations of "the Fox News a faction" of a huge part of the American
public. Facts mean nothing.

[patphil]

8. Abbot and his Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick are quite a pair aren't they?

Not a shred of human decency in either one of them.

[Botany]

10. Is it a lack of decency, being heartless fuckhead, or

... just being dumber than burnt toast?


A long time ago when I was a kid in NW Pa. our next door neighbor's brother was the Governor.... very middle class neighborhood.... Ray Shafer, and he was a great guy and a Republican too. These people are just no good assholes.

[patphil]

11. I like the burnt toast comparison.

My father was from Wisconsin, and he would say, "dumber than a keg of nails".
I guess each region has their way of expressing it.
Any one else out there have a comparison?

[Skittles]

12. they are smart enought to know better

but they hump Trump, they're EVIL

[R B Garr]

6. I saw where Texas has to use a children's hospital for adult patients now.

How childish and utterly irresponsible do you have to be to let that happen.

[bronxiteforever]

7. +1 exactly.

[Sapient Donkey]

13. Damn. I was really hoping it was just going to be due to increased testing.

I doubt the idiot governor will do anything to help alleviate this issue.