Posted on 08/10/2021 9:20:24 PM PDT by Cronos
Gov. Greg Abbott is appealing for out-of-state help to fight the third wave of Covid-19 in Texas.
The Monday appeal comes as a county-owned hospital in Houston raises tents to accommodate their Covid-19 overflow. Private hospitals in the county already were requiring their staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
...Abbott has directed the Texas Department of State Health Services to use staffing agencies to find additional medical staff from beyond the state’s borders as the delta wave began to overwhelm its present staffing resources. He also has sent a letter to the Texas Hospital Association to request that hospitals postpone all elective medical procedures voluntarily.
Hospital officials in Houston said last week that area hospitals with beds had insufficient numbers of nurses to serve them.
Abbott also directed the state health department and the Texas Division of Emergency Management to open additional Covid-19 antibody infusion centers to treat patients not needing hospital care and expand Covid-19 vaccine availability to the state’s underserved communities. He also announced that about $267 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food benefits. That was on top of the $3.9 billion in benefits previously allocated since April 2020.
Meantime, one of Houston’s two county-owned hospitals was pitching tents to accommodate its Covid-19 overflow. Harris Health System and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in northeastern Houston added nearly 2,000 square feet of medical tents in the hope of taking control of the anticipated increase in patient volume and keep staff and non-Covi-19 patients safe.
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And this isn’t happening in any other state?!
Wanna help Texas? Stay the hell out..
Abbott, you’ve just indicated to the country that Texas can’t handle their own state. Nice job, idiot.
That’s ridiculous.....covid spreads and Texas has all these illegals flooding in.
Block the borders. Reroute the illegals to liberal states/DC. Get them the hell out of the state.
Closing the Border would greatly help Texas.
He needs to be shouting that. Who is in these hospitals? What age group, what comorbidities? What don’t we know anything about who is in these hospitals?
Something isn’t adding up here...
All states having illegals distributed in them should be yelling at the top of their lungs.......Dump them all in Washington DC and Biden’s neighborhood.
How many of the covid patients have the option of getting treated with ivermectin or HCQ?
My 80 year old father in law has covid and is in a hospital near San Antonio. They are having a hard time in bringing his oxygen levels back up. China is a curse upon the world.
I agree, dump them on the Whitehouse lawn. Give them tickets to tour the WH.
prayers for him and all family and those helping to treat him. God Bless and be with him in his recovery.
Thank you very much. My mother in law has it and is at home, they gave her a drug called wolverine (I had never heard of that one before). I don’t know what they are giving my father in law but I told my husband they should use Regeneron if possible.
They can’t get the monoclonal antibodies?
You may want to watch this:
He is working for the other side.
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