Texas has had 10,000 new coronavirus cases a day on average over the last week. “We thought that we were immune in Texas [early on,]” says one doctor. “But it came over and it came over hard, like a tsunami.”
on average over the last week, up 55% since the beginning of July. And just over 4,000 people in Texas have died since the start of the pandemic.
Dr. Jamil Madi, chief of critical care medicine at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, Texas, tellsthat his team has seen a surge of COVID-19 patients over the last few weeks. The intensive care unit went from only a few patients a month ago to 95% of current beds filled. They've now exceeded the units traditionally used for the ICU, he says.
"We started off with a couple of units, which we had conventionally, and then we started to expand and have makeshift units all over the hospital," Madi says."Unfortunately, our hospital capacity right now — we have about 75% of our patients in the hospital are COVID patients."Portrait of Dr. Jamil Madi.When the pandemic started a few months ago, we had some small surges or outbreaks in the nursing homes, and they were mostly elderly patients, obviously.
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