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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