2 Texas Counties Urge Residents to Shelter in Place as Hospitals Reach Capacity

2 Texas Counties Urge Residents to Shelter in Place as Hospitals Reach Capacity
By Web Staff
July 4, 2020 Updated: July 4, 2020
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Hospitals in at least two Texas counties are at full capacity heading into the Fourth of July holiday weekend, with county judges urging residents to shelter in place.

Judges in Starr and Hidalgo counties sent out emergency alerts on July 3, warning residents that local hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley were at capacity.

Judge Eloy Vera said there have been 18 deaths in Starr County due to COVID-19 and two severely ill patients had to be flown out of the area for treatment. One of the patients was taken to San Antonio and the other to Dallas, the judge said in the post on Facebook.

“The local and valley hospitals are at full capacity and have no more beds available. I urge all of our residents to please shelter-in-place, wear face coverings, practice social distancing, and AVOID GATHERINGS,” he wrote.

Vera issued a public safety alert announcing a “Level 1 Severe” threat due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus spreading rapidly across the county.

In neighboring Hidalgo County, Judge Richard Cortez mirrored the warning.


In a public safety alert posted on Twitter, he also announced hospitals were at capacity and asked residents to shelter in place, avoid large gatherings, wear face coverings, and practice social distancing.

In the post, Cortez asked residents to celebrate the Fourth of July “responsibly,” and to “Conserve resources; ONLY call 911 if absolutely necessary.”

People sit at the bar of a restaurant in Austin, Texas, on June 26, 2020. (Sergio Flores/AFP

 

What numbers equal "At capacity?" 5 beds or 100 beds?

Is this sudden over flow owing to Covid or the normal drunk stupidity of 4th of July weekend.

Oddly these 'scary' stores never provide any hard data.

 

Where are all the emergency hospitals that got built and we didn't need?

 

Not built where needed as those areas picked up the slack.

They are now full so at capacity "the maximum amount that something can contain ie patients" and some of this may mean a lack of Nurses. No matter how many beds you have you need care takers.

COVID

 

For those who don't know, Starr and Hidalgo are along the Mexican border in deep south Texas. I believe Starr county has less than 80k residents total, so I suspect it wouldn't take much to overwhelm their medical facilities.

 

I watch F1 Car racing , when the TV cameras are filming the Pratice /trials / Qually and then the race , ALL masks , off camera is just like normal as in 1942 --2019 years !!
There in Austria for a back to back race ..
I get uncut feed from Bro..Too old now to be there..
Sloth

 

"Shelter in place"....is that govt speak for 'live at home' ?

 

Keep your self off the street!

 

you always have to look at the real numbers
COVID is real, but the posted and numbers I'm not so sure about. I was talking to a guy last week over the phone who has had to stay home for 2 weeks because he had a fever. It took them a week to do the test and get the results. No COVID but he still cant go to work till the 2 weeks are up.... now how do you suppose they tallied that in the stats... im guessing they added it to COVID cases 'reported' rather than 'actual' Covid cases.

Numbers lie if you dont look at their basis of comparison.

 

Hospitals have a number of real world considerations in treating a highly infectious disease.
Example is.
Even thou the Med/Surge floor/floors can be near empty at times you cannot treat covid in that area.
Same goes for OB/ICU/CCU/ and all others.
Many/Most/Some Hospitals have 1 to 4 Rooms of negative pressure design to use for infectious disease but, should the disease break out then the whole hospital is done for to care for local problems.
Rural Health Care has declined greatly in the last 20 years and to be the only hospital in 1000 square miles with a Lock Down for 1 Patient is a bad call.

I once worked out of a Hospital used mostly for rural care, Later AIDS was in control it was limited to AIDS patients, when the problem was better contained with meds the Hospital was to be returned to Normal Care.

NOPE no one would go there and I was long gone as a Volunteer EMT.

The place was bull dozed!

 

How many are china virus and how many are from no one going to a Dr for nearly 6 months?

I work with a guy who started having headaches around the first of the year. He wanted to go to the Dr back around February but didn't because of the plandemic BS. Well he let it go until the "headaches" caused him to have stroke like symptoms. Turns out he had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball.
Probably wouldn't have been as bad or as big if he caught it 3 to 6 months earlier.

 

Alaska, population 732,545

Covid dead - 16..mostly old and/or with other major halth complications.

16/732545 = 2.18 -5 or DOT 000002.18%

Clearly, we have a screaming pandemic that we need to kill the economy over....
BTW, twice as many people died last flu season. No masks, no shutdown, no BS.

 

Houston is in Harris County, a region beset by one of the nation’s worst and fastest-growing coronavirus outbreaks. A ProPublica and NBC News investigation found that a rapidly growing number of Houston-area residents are dying before they can make it to a hospital. Medical examiner data shows that an increasing number of these deaths are the result of COVID-19.

Researchers and paramedics say the trend of sudden at-home deaths in Texas’ largest city is concerning because it shows that the virus’ toll may be deeper than what appears in official death tallies and daily hospitalization reports.
An increase in people dying at home suggests coronavirus deaths in Houston may be higher than reported
In Houston, one of the nation's fastest-growing coronavirus hot spots, more residents are dying before they can make it to a hospital. Medical examiner data shows that an increasing number of these deaths are the result of COVID-19. READ THE STORY
By Charles Ornstein, ProPublica and Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News | Jul 8, 2020

YMMV