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El Paso sees 200 percent rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations; people urged to stay home 2 weeks
El Paso sees 200 percent rise in Covid-19 hospitalizations; people urged to stay home 2 weeks
"If we continue on this trend, we risk detrimental effects to our entire health care system," a public health official said.
Oct. 25, 2020, 5:09 PM EDT
By Tim Stelloh
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El Paso, Texas, is turning its convention center into a field hospital and asking residents to stay at home for two weeks after the city recorded a roughly 200 percent increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations in less than a month, officials said Sunday.
The spread of the coronavirus is rising in much of the United States, including Texas' neighbor New Mexico, where a record 4,252 new cases were reported last week, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
In El Paso, a border city with a population of more than 680,000, the number of hospitalizations recorded in the last three weeks jumped from 259 to 786, according to the city's director of public health, Angela Mora.
Read more@ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/el-paso-sees-300-percent-rise-covid-hospitalizations-people-urged-n1244713
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