1/ Houston, TX hospital capacity update:

“What you’ve been hearing is a report that we are at 97% or so capacity...Exactly one year ago, it was at 95%. It is completely normal for us to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s - 90s. That’s how all of us operate hospitals...”

2/ "The capacity that’s being reported is base capacity … we have the ability to go far higher than that in terms of the ICU beds....We are seeing younger patients, we are seeing a shorter length of stay, we are seeing lower immortality, and we are seeing lower ICU utilization."

3/"People need to come to the hospital or emergency department to receive care and not allow bad things to happen to them because they are somehow inaccurately afraid of coming to the hospitals. That’s a very key message.”

4/"The reality is our capacity to care for those patients significantly exceeds what we’re staffing on any given day...As you look at the capacity of the hospitals on a day-to-day basis, it can be a little misleading."

5/"Our goal has been for the hospital operators, the people who actually manage bed capacity, to be clear that we’re not in imminent danger of running out of bed capacity here in Houston to care of COVID patients, or those who have other illnesses that require hospital care."

6/ Link: https://www.woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=67046

Previous thread about hospital capacity in Texas: https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1275868742287634435