Texas hospitals, still battling coronavirus, now face Cat. 4 Hurricane Laura.
HOUSTON — Emergency officials along Texas' storm-battered coast have had plenty of practice responding to disasters in recent years, but they've never seen a scenario like this: A destructiveHurricane Laura intensified to an"extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said. Laura is forecast to make landfall around the Texas and Louisiana border on the Gulf Coast on Wednesday night or early Thursday.
Fortunately, he said, the number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 in southeastern Texas has dropped significantly since early July,Experts worry that emergency shelters or crowded hospitals could become incubators for new COVID-19 outbreaks across the region and are taking steps to mitigate the risk.
If Beaumont is slammed, and hospitals there become overwhelmed, plans are in place to move patients elsewhere, like to Houston.
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