Texas, Arizona face record coronavirus hospitalizations as U.S. cases surpass 2.5 million

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Source: Washington Post

Hospitals in Texas and Arizona are admitting coronavirus patients in record numbers as new infections continue to climb across southern and western states, with the total number of infections in the United States surpassing 2.5 million.

Global cases of covid-19 exceeded 10 million on Sunday, according to a count maintained by Johns Hopkins University, a measure of the power and spread of a pandemic that has caused vast human suffering, devastated the world’s economy and still threatens vulnerable populations in rich and poor nations alike.

Here are some significant developments:

Texas set a record for coronavirus-related hospitalizations for the 16th day in a row on Saturday, with 5,523 patients being treated. In Arizona, health officials also reported a record, with 2,577 current hospitalizations.



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[Botany]

1. "U.S. cases surpass 2.5 million"

We now have 25% of the world's C-19 cases. Not bad considering we are 4% of the world's
population.

[LisaL]

2. Which presumably means we are actually at 25 millions.

[Botany]

4. Yup!

“Our best estimate right now is for every case reported there were actually 10 other infections,” Dr. Redfield said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/27/health/coronavirus-antibodies-asymptomatic.html

[beachbumbob]

3. goes back to what is unused bed count in Texas and Florida, county by county. Thats the data

we need as well

[Igel]

6. One link used to give that info for Houston, at least a big chunk of Houston.

That site was https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/ .

They took that page down. I suspect that it wasn't giving the approved information.

It showed (as of Friday) the Texas Medical Center at near 100% base ICU-bed capacity. Something like 27% of the baseline ICU beds were COVID-occupied. But there was a "surge" capacity on top of that, and an emergency capacity on top of *that*, so fewer than 50% of all the available beds were actually occupied, and only a quarter of those because of COVID.

The news, however, was saying that the ICU beds were nearly at capacity. And the county emergency was because we were almost out of beds because of COVID. As is often the case, I suspect, politics required that reality measure up and that required removing the competing narrative. So they 404ed the site.

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5. Yet according to Pew research poll out the end of the week 40% say the worst is over...huh???