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Hospitals across the state [#Texas] are running low on pediatric intensive care unit beds.
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https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2021/09/03/407791/doctors-say-texas-leaders-failed-to-stop-covid-19-from-spreading/
Doctors Say Texas Leaders Failed To Stop COVID-19 From Spreading
Hospitals across the state are running low on pediatric intensive care unit beds. Texas Department of State Health Services says only 81 of them remain and just a couple hundred more regular ICU beds are available in the state of 29 million people.
Paul Flahive, TPR | Posted on September 3, 2021, 11:36 AM
Gabriel C. Pérez / KUT
File Photo: Gov. Greg Abbott leads a roundtable discussion on public safety priorities at the Texas Department of Public Safety headquarters in January 2021.
Texas schools have amassed more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in students in just a couple of weeks. More than a dozen school districts have closed temporarily as a result of the disease, and Texas is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3.
But state leaders have spent weeks of the surge pushing through controversial bills around abortion, voting restrictions and bail reform while Gov. Abbott has been fighting local governments over their efforts to stem the spread of the disease.
Hospitals across the state are running low on pediatric intensive care unit beds. Texas' Department of State Health Services says only 81 of them remain and just a couple hundred more regular ICU beds are available in the state of 29 million people.
"Governor Abbott has failed us. A republican state legislature has failed us, said Dr. David Portugal a cardiologist in Sugarland, Texas. "These leaders should be held accountable and be asked to explain how they can justify taking actions that are killing their fellow Texans." .................................
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Hospitals across the state [#Texas] are running low on pediatric intensive care unit beds. (Original Post)
riversedge
Sep 2021
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bahboo
(16,337 posts)1. they don't give a shit...
they're born already. Only the unborn get consideration...
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)2. It's so long past time the Q-anon crazies lose out to the sensible
So cringeworthy that with such a health calamity and misogynistic nanny-state authoritarianism... that at least some of the independents are getting an inkling that RW calls for FREEDUMB! are getting increasingly short sighted and hypocritical, in that order.