Texas reports a third straight day of record coronavirus hospitalizations

[SouthernCal_Dem]

Source: CNBC

Texas health authorities said there are currently 2,153 patients sickened with Covid-19 across its hospitals, marking the third-straight day Wednesday of record-breaking coronavirus hospitalizations in the state.

The new total is up from 2,056 patients on Tuesday and 1,935 patients Monday, according to updated data from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

The steady rise in coronavirus hospitalizations in Texas will likely add to scrutiny from some U.S. lawmakers and infectious disease experts that some states opened businesses too early as the virus continues to spread throughout parts of the country.

Texas was among the first states to relax its statewide stay-at-home order, allowing it to expire April 30 and some businesses to resume operations May 1. On June 3, Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order to announce the third phase of the state’s plan to open additional businesses and activities.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/10/texas-reports-a-third-straight-day-of-record-coronavirus-hospitalizations.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. This may turn out to be like leading the sheep into the abattoir.

The christofascists are gong to roll the dice, test their lord God and sacrifice people for the economy.

Well, that will end without reimposing restrictions if there is a panic.

[aggiesal]

22. Republicans need the economy to reopen, because their banking on a good economy for re-election ...

Pendejo45 is pushing this for his own gain and all the (R) governors are accommodating.

This will kill 3%-5% of those that get it.

218 new cases in Texas since Monday, means 6.5 to 10.9 people will die.

[catrose]

2. Because haircuts! Restaurants and bars! Freedom!

Freedom to die. The governor just allowed restaurants to go from 25% to 50% occupancy, because the first reopening went so well. For him, I assume.

[sandensea]

5. "We'll show them Dummycrats!"

[catrose]

6. They are, they are.

Every Democrat I know is still at home, if they have that choice. A server friend goes to work in a filtered mask and face shield. The boss looks squiggly eyed at her, but refusing to let your employees wear PPE is not a good look.

[sandensea]

7. I've noticed the same thing

Here in Colorado, most people seem to be abiding by guidelines - but you have that recalcitrant 20% or so (mostly younger guys) who won't.

From what I've seen, this group's overwhelmingly Anglo - and with that hostile 'someone-took-my-lunch-money' look on their face that pretty much gives them away as Republicans.

Not necessarily, of course - but you know.

[catrose]

8. Yeah, I know

You have the infamous Expose-Your-Mother-to-Covid-on-Mother's-Day restaurant. (They're suing for the violation of their rights.) Texas has the hair salon that refused to close (with Ted Cruz' support).

Some days. Some people.

[louzke9]

19. LET THOSE FOOLS......

Let this sink in!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/health/airflow-coronavirus-restaurants.html

[sandensea]

20. "It's all a Soros/Gates plot to bring down the GREATEST president that ever lived!"

[RKP5637]

3. The IDIOT factor of the US will cause it to keep spreading all over the US. ... As tRump

nods and says mission accomplished, I cured COVID-19.

[aggiesal]

23. Never underestimate the stupidity of American citizens. n/t

[Lonestarblue]

4. Haircuts but also oil.

People weren’t driving and using enough gasoline at a time when an oil glut drove barrel prices into the basement. A large part of the Texas economy is based on oil. It hasn’t been mentioned much because it sounds callous to risk people’s lives for big oil profits!

[lagomorph777]

17. "... it sounds callous to risk people's lives for big oil profits!"

Why start worrying about that now? Big Oil has done that for over a century.

[Nitram]

9. Couldn't happen to a stupider state.

Please don't interpret that to mean ALL Texans are stupid. Just the GOP ones.

[alp227]

10. I hope you're happy, Shelley Luther.

She's the Dallas salon order who achieved national fame by openly defying the shelter in place order, raising hundreds of thousands through GoFundMe for her legal defense, and having the Texas Supreme Court suspend her jail sentence.

[redstatebluegirl]

14. I hope someone who gets sick going to her salon sues the pants off of her.

[groundloop]

11. Fake news. Not a problem. This only shows up because there's more testing than ever.

This shouldn't be needed, but just in case -

[customerserviceguy]

12. I'm curious

to know where the increased hospitalizations are taking place. Are they predominantly rural, or are they mostly in the big cities?

[Igel]

21. Cities.

And coupled with the observation I heard from some spokesperson that while hospitalizations are up, deaths aren't.

Some of the cases are from outbreaks in fairly closed networks. Same for some of the bumps in the death rate. A nursing home in Humble had something like 4 deaths and that moved the needle. If you're looking at a daily death toll of 800, that kind of thing merges into a nice average, but when it's 20-30 dead per day it's a "spike", but no better or worse than when it's part of a large death toll and vanishes into the background.

The spokesperson was also a bit flummoxed because the increase has been linear when the usual math expects exponential.

Without more info, it's hard to know if this is because of "opening up" over a month ago (although the process has been gradual and is, I believe, not finished), because of Memorial Day foolishness, because of protests, or because of specific other things that just happen to co-occur.

It's also possible that it's something else. Early on there were places with almost no deaths but lots of hospitalizations while other locales had a high number of deaths among those hospitalized. Turns out places with excess capacity and relatively few cases had doctors who were cautious with patient health and hospitalized people just in case because they could, while other places the doctors were more cautious about not exceeding capacity and only hospitalized more severe cases.

In other examples the infection rate increased but it didn't hit older, more vulnerable populations, so even as the hospitalization rate increases there's scant increase in ICU usage and the death toll doesn't climb.

Or maybe something else. No reason to jump to conclusions unless we just like the exercise.

[customerserviceguy]

24. Thank you

Those were some valuable observations you made.

[ffr]

13. This would be a good time for tRump to hold a rally there to show his support

Go show them liberals, Mr. Impeached pResident!

[tclambert]

15. But you gotta have those beaches open for the fourth of July.

So tell Chief Brody and Dr. Fauci to shut the hell up.

[patphil]

16. Wow! I guess they never saw that coming. Who coulda guessed.

[lagomorph777]

18. I know, right? How could this possibly have happened?