Texas faces tipping point as COVID-19 spreads

The Hill ^ | 08/19/2021 | JUSTINE COLEMAN AND MAGGIE MILLER

[ChicagoConservative27]

Texas is facing a tipping point in the state’s battle with COVID-19.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who is fully vaccinated, tested positive for COVID-19 this week as deaths in his state from the coronavirus have more than doubled in the last two weeks and hospitals have reached capacity.

While Abbott suffered a relatively rare breakthrough infection, less than half the state’s total population is fully vaccinated against the virus, putting them at heavy risk of getting COVID-19.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Tipping point? Is that like Guam tipping over?

[Army Air Corps]

Name the hospitals, Hill Reporter.

[OttawaFreeper]

I’m looking at the U.K.’s numbers and the new cases and currently ill numbers are on plateauing or downward trend. I suspect stories like these about Texas or Florida are soon not going to age particularly well.

[eyeamok]

OMG Half the State of Texas DIED Overnight, Hide Shelter in Place and WEAR YOUR BINKY!!!

[frogjerk]

While Abbott suffered a relatively rare breakthrough infection,

Rare my ass

I was in TX last week, DFW, area and you would not know there was any sort of emergency other than a few idiots outside wearing masks.

[Flick Lives]

While Abbott suffered a relatively rare breakthrough infection...

"Relatively rare". Is this like "mostly peaceful"?

[Sans-Culotte]

Just more proof that masks and vaccines don’t work.

[dfwgator]

I am returning to Texas today. I am expecting to trip over bodies as I get off the plane.

[Devils_Tower]

Rare break thru case my ass....

Everyone I know in my area that has come down with covid have been fully vacinated.

The HILL can piss off

[rktman]

I heard all the hospitals ICU units in TX are full of CONvid-one9 victims. Some even doubly fully completely vaxxed. Well, that sure ain’t workin’. /$

[frogjerk]

If the vaccines work so great at preventing you from being hospitalized or dying why are those who have breakthrough infections being put on moncolonal antibodies? Shouldn’t the vaccine be good enough?

[ncalburt]

Stop posting the Panic virus Porn non stop here .

[rktman]

Funeral pyres visible from space.

[Antoninus]

“Relatively rare” breakthrough infection. At some point, they won’t be able to make that claim anymore.

[Don Corleone]

Obama/Harris importing thousands of cases per day.

[rktman]

So triple mask and get that booster. That should fix everything. /$

[RoseofTexas]

See how easy the media is flipping the script? cheating Beijing Joe comes out gives a lecture on Covid and in an instant the media gravitates to his talking point. By tomorrow Afghanistan will be all but forgotten by the media. MARK IT!

[RayChuang88]

Here's the problem: just what is the level of people actually sick? Delta and Delta+ spreads easily but actual people who have been fully vaccinated and/or recovered from a previous COVID illness getting sick again is actually quite low.

[McGavin999]

They need to take one hospital and make it a Covid hospital, equip it with whatever is needed for Covid and allow the other hospitals run as normal. What are the demographics of these Covid victims? Age, conditions, legal status, etc.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Abbott’s ADEs we’re scrambling to ADE him by holding press conferences discussing the need for medical ADE to affected Texans. The Federal answer, of course, is more Vaccine ADE to vulnerable people who need ADE.