With the number of beds in ICU reduced to less than 10, the city of Austin has sounded the alarm, using its emergency alert system to let residents in the capital, Texas, know that the local outbreak situation is “dire.”
State health data show that thearea Austin, which has a population of approximately 2.4 million people, has only 6 beds in intensive care. A total of 313 respirators are available.
“The situation is critical,” he said in Public Health Medical Director Desmar Walks noted, warning of a “disaster” as the notification was sent to residents at noon via text messages, emails and phone calls. “Our hospitals are under severe stress and there is not much we can do to alleviate the burden of cases in increase”.
The warning came just two days after the city health ministry raised the risk level to its highest level in phase five due to the highly contagious delta variant, prompting residents to get vaccinated, stay at home and wear masks even if they had been injected.
The risk level was also increased after the media mobile 7-day of new hospital admissions increased by more than 600% in the past month, while patients in intensive care units increased by 570%.
The health ministry said Covid patients using ventilators rose to 102 on Saturday from eight on July 4. Others may follow as cases in thearea Austin increased 10 times.
New infections in the United States have increased in media to more than 100,000 per day and have returned to the winter increase levels of six months ago. On Friday, the number of weekly cases surpassed 750,000, the highest number since the beginning of February, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg and seen by Al Arabiya.net.
Texas, with a population of approximately 29 million, has 439 beds available in intensive care and 6,991 ventilators.
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