Texas Reports Record-Breaking COVID-19 Hospitalizations As State Reopens

[TomCADem]

Source: NPR

Texas reported a record-breaking number of COVID-19 hospitalizations Monday as the governor plans to reopen more businesses and double capacity.

Texas Department of State Health Services figures show 1,935 people were admitted as hospital patients for coronavirus-related treatment. That is up from a previous record of 1,888 on May 5.

The department's new figures were released as Gov. Greg Abbott moves forward with a plan to open bars, restaurants, amusement parks and other businesses to 50% capacity.

Abbott led most of the nation's governors in allowing Texas to lift statewide stay-at-home orders and urging businesses to reopen at limited capacity on May 1.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/08/872660425/texas-reports-record-breaking-covid-19-hospitalizations-as-state-reopens

[louis-t]

1. I fear a lot of red states will pay the price.

I'm nervous about my state. In 2 days, I saw the number of people wearing masks drop from about 98% down to about 60%. They think it's over. It's NOT over.

[CountAllVotes]

2. So much for that herd immunity

I guess that isn't working out so hot is it Texas?

[onetexan]

16. not gonna happen till there's a vaccine. Abbott has his head in the sand as usual.

[CountAllVotes]

18. They have never found a vaccine for a corona virus

I think we might be waiting for a very long time.

[Skittles]

23. Abbott's head is in Trump's ass

he a fucking Trump humper

[Newest Reality]

3. I get the sense...

I get the sense that we all might want to brace ourselves mentally and otherwise for a sequel that is a rerun with extra footage.

When a nation casually looks the other way as if the tiger will disappear, suddenly, you turn around and look right in its gaping jaws, smell its breath and see the drool. Ooops.

[IronLionZion]

4. GOP leaders there encouraged people to take off their masks, hug each other,

and ignore the deep state liberal hoax since it's just a conspiracy to take down Trump

[not fooled]

5. Throwing people

into the meat grinder of incompetence and what...Capitalism?

The red states and red don are hell bent on making sure there is no effective governmental response. I'm convinced it's because they are terrified of admitting there is a need for "big government" which COVID-19 so effectively demonstrates.

Radical crackpot libertarianism is driving the hearse off the cliff. 666kochbrothers666 running the country, to the detriment of most people.

[Blues Heron]

6. It's like a slow motion Jonestown how they encouraged people to go maskless

and the culties bought into it.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Yep. And even if it's true that only symptomatic...

... people can spread the virus as the WHO supposedly claimed (which I think meant people who never had symptoms and not the presymptomatic who have been spreaders according to many epidemiologists), are we supposed to trust that symptomatic people will be conscientious and avoid public spaces?

I don't! In this country?! No way!

[CountAllVotes]

19. +1,000!!!

n/t

[BlueIdaho]

7. Let's put the GOP convention there...

With any luck covid will work a little karma on their asses.

[lark]

8. Texas has moved ahead of FL on the CV19 top hits list.

At one time it was 3 states behind us, now it's 2 states ahead of us. Michigan and FL continue to fascinate me, MI has very close to the same number of infections as FL, but has 3000 more deaths. I wonder why that is when FL has lots more elderly than MI?

[JT45242]

12. Cooked books courtesy of your (R) governor

1. Snowbirds who dies in Florida and had a second residence in another state were not listed in the official counts for Florida (or most likely their home states either).
2. Likely the same thing was done with other elderly Floridians who own a home in another state
3. Lack of testing -- Florida is one of the states that has refused to count 'likely cases' and 'deaths from likely cases' by only counting those that it tested
4. Not testing people who died at home so that they could use loophole #3 above.

I can only imagine what the deaths above seasonal average looks like in Florida for the last six months. My guess is that it is HUGE!

but your governor knows that deaths are like votes, he only has to count the ones he likes.

[Delphinus]

22. Thanks for

the explanation. I definitely think DeSantis is cooking the books.

[customerserviceguy]

10. I'd be curious to know

Were the increased hospitalizations taking place in rural areas that might have had anti-lockdown protests, or which opened up too early with insufficient precautions? Or were they in urbanized areas that may have seen protest activity connected to the George Floyd incident? Raw numbers would be nice, but ratios would be better to ascertain why there is a surge.

[Javaman]

11. I'm in Austin and I can't tell you the amount of rampant stupidity I have seen on display

I wrote on here last week how whole foods punted and is now allowing unmasked people into their store.

home depot also doing the same.

I won't shop at WFs any longer because they don't have curb side service or ever have. they dropped the ball big time and chose to instead push the prime shoppers and instacart.

and I'm predicting that home depot will stop curbside with in two weeks.

I'm going to HEB now, they have a great set up for curbside. And are doing a great job.

so many really stupid people and store managers and cel's out there.

[turbinetree]

13. The entire county is going to experience the rampant stupidity............

masks or no masks..............

[ananda]

15. Yes, HEB is excellent!

I don't mind ordering from WF (Amazon Fresh) sometimes,
but they don't have the inventory that HEB and Sprouts
have, so I use those two more than WF.

[Paladin]

14. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick must be jerking off with joy, over this.

He's been so anxious for more people---especially old people---to die, to bolster the economy and his precious stock portfolio.

Hey, Dan! How about yet another press conference or appearance on Fox "news," telling us all how happy you are over how things are going? Best regards to your pal, the virus.

[czarjak]

20. You mean Dannie Scott Goeb is an impervious imbecile?

[Paladin]

21. "impervious imbecile" has a nice ring to it; very creative, even accurate.

But it's still way too charitable a description of Mr. Goeb.

Sorry, this is what happens to people (like me) who have been exposed to his lethal blather for way too many years.

[area51]

17. Dr. Talmadge lives in the Dallas area,

and periodically tweets about this.

Link to tweet

"The Texas Department of State Health Services reported on June 9 that 2,056 people with COVID-19 are being treated in Texas hospitals. Welcome to the Infected Lone Star State. Trump says we are setting records!"

[TheFourthMind]

24. More shocking news from Texas. n/t