Houston: LBJ Hospital putting up tents for COVID-19 overflow patients, officials say

[herding cats]

A mask mandate could have prevented this.

HOUSTON — Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital has started to put up tents on its campus for COVID-19 overflow patients, according to Harris Health System.

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We're told the tent is currently empty as the hospital searches for medical staff to operate it. It's still unclear if or when that will happen, officials said.

We are not talking about a crisis a week 10 days, 14 days from now. We are in a crisis mode today," President and CEO of Harris Health System Esmaeil Porsa said last week.

Porsa said the system doesn't have enough staff to deal with the increase in COVID patients along with the normal ER patients.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/lbj-hospital-tents-covid-overflow/285-05dfcc82-1fab-4eb2-b16b-9e8ee8522c8a

Texas is in deep trouble. We have a truly severe shortage of medical workers right now.

[NCjack]

1. Hoax !!!

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Who Doesn't Like Camping Out?

It will be like a little vacation. Perhaps they can make s'mores.

[Jim__]

3. Maybe Abbott can issue an EO against temporary medical facilities. - n/t

[LeftInTX]

4. He's so sadistic that he would

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Geez. From power grid failures that leave people dead in the cold or heat, to

to death from a failing health industry that can't keep up with those infected because of bad state policies...Texas is really revving up to be the number one shithole state in the nation.

Florida: Hold my beer.

[Phoenix61]

10. Talk about a rush to the bottom. nt

[roamer65]

6. Here we are.

You could smell it coming…like bad Sitler fart from Austin.

No staff means you lie on the cot and wait for your fate.

[nitpicker]

7. Mask up the candy stripers

And wait for some of THEM to die.

[roamer65]

8. No way in hell I would work in one of these tents.

99 pct of them will be ignorant antivaxxers and sheeple swayed by them.

[keithbvadu2]

9. June 2020, Abbot said Texas has plenty of hospital beds for Trumpvirus patients/victims.

Back in June 2020, Gov Abbot said Texas has plenty of hospital beds for Trumpvirus patients/victims.

Now he has let Trumpvirus expand with his policies.

https://www.google.com/search?q=abbott+enough+hospital+beds&sxsrf=ALeKk03ncU_SWJpefnwaAISu1mDND1-Atw:1592871680252&ei=AEvxXuPlDvKyggfmxKugBw&start=0&sa=N&ved=2ahUKEwjj5bG11ZbqAhVymeAKHWbiCnQ4ChDx0wN6BAgLECs&biw=885&bih=404

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[herding cats]

11. January 2021 was pretty dark here as far as hospital space, too.

Facing a crush of COVID-19 patients, ICUs are completely full in at least 50 Texas hospitals.

Across Texas, hospital intensive care units are being battered as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in a post-holiday surge. Dozens of facilities have reported that their ICUs have been at or above 100% capacity for weeks, leaving staff overworked and stretched thin.

More than 50 Texas hospitals are currently reporting that their ICUs are 100% full or higher, and a dozen of them have been full for more than half of the 24 weeks since hospitals began reporting that information in July, according to a Texas Tribune analysis of data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/22/coronavirus-texas-hospital-capacity/

Abbot is assuming this surge will also pass and not enough of his voters will be impacted to hurt him too much in 2022. He's being appose in the primaries by even more hard right candidates, so he's all in on letting people die to appear pro "freedom" for the nutters.

Scary part is, he's probably not wrong.

[LisaL]

13. Good idea. Lets get some people off facebook to administer horse medicine.

Since anti-vaxxers get their knowledge off vaccines from social media anyway.

[Thtwudbeme]

12. Hurricane proof tents?

Nt

[Irish_Dem]

14. It appears that refusing to join the civilized world comes at quite a cost.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. It is getting scary

Link to tweet

[Demovictory9]

16. sounds familiar..we did this a year ago