Wave of coronavirus threatens to swamp hospitals in Texas, Florida and other states

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Skyrocketing coronavirus case levels threaten to overload medical systems in Texas, Florida and other states seeing new infection waves.

Now, hospital leaders, physicians and public health officials are issuing new pleas for people to wear masks and keep distant from one another to slow the pandemic and prevent healthcare systems from collapsing.

Abbott said the order was necessary “to help ensure that the hospitals in these counties continue to have ample supply of available beds to treat COVID-19 patients.”Florida, another emerging hot spot, is not reporting the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. In Jacksonville, Fla., Baptist Health, one of the largest medical systems in northern Florida, currently has only 24 COVID-19 patients, officials reported.

Advances in treatments, including the use of drugs such as remdesevir and dexamethasone, have also eased some of the burdens that hospitals experienced when the crisis first struck earlier this year. In California, hospitals as far north as Sacramento are taking COVID-19 patients from hospitals in Imperial and San Diego counties, which have been overwhelmed with expatriates coming home from Mexico for treatment.

 

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Haha worry about yourselves, this is foolish

Don't worry, the sniffling orange guy said coronavirus cases 'within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.' That was in February, so I'm sure it's gonna happen aaaaaany day now.

Fake news

Wrong.... most all new cases don’t require hospitalization ...fake news again

But not where there were massive protests .......

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