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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Houston is at capacity according to Houston. That is the 4th largest metro area in the United States. it doesn't matter if there are open beds in Midland or Waco.[/quote]

That is not true.  
An article from yesterday......

[quote]Healthcare CEOs of the Texas Medical Center said Thursday that a letter that was sent out to the community Wednesday regarding the hospital system's "increasingly stretched" ICU capacity level was "misinterpreted" and stressed the pandemic is not eclipsing hospital capabilities to care for  COVID-19 positive patients as well as other patients.
Following reports that TMC had reached 97 percent capacity, Dr. Marc Boom, Houston Methodist president and CEO, said ICU capacity percentages in the 80s or 90s is "completely normal."

"We have the ability to go far higher than that in terms of the ICU beds we can utilize for COVID-19 patients," Boom said during a press conference. "...We have PPE (personal protection equipment) we have the capability, (and) we have learned enormous amounts about caring for people with COVID-19."
Dr. Doug Lawson, St. Luke’s Health CEO, said hospitals are actively planning for anticipated increases over the coming months, which includes bringing in contract nurses and clinicians from other parts of the country to help with surges and doubling critical care capacity.

"The reality is all of us have the ability to significantly expand capacity on a day to day, week to week, month to month basis," Lawson said.
Boom said overall, hospitals are seeing younger COVID-19 patients, who stay for a shorter period of time, and fewer deaths. Thanks to active surveillance programs and quick turnaround testing times, Boom and Mark Wallace, Texas Children’s Hospital president and CEO, said a "relatively low number" of hospital employees have tested positive for the virus. Texas Children's started accepting adult COVID-19 positive patients this week and is currently operating at a 74 percent ICU occupancy, Wallace said.[/quote]

https://www.chron.com/houston/article/TMC-leaders-Despite-rising-COVID-19-cases-15366132.php[/quote]

As you were saying?

[twitter]https://twitter.com/russellgold/status/1276635548279607297[/twitter][/quote]

Thanks Houston protesters![/quote]
There’s been no spike from protests. If there had been we would have seen one in New York, and we haven’t.

“For more than two months, the authorities had been urging New Yorkers to stay indoors and keep their distance from others. But after the police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, tens of thousands of New Yorkers poured into the streets, day and night, to protest police brutality and racism.

Epidemiologists braced for a surge of new coronavirus cases. But it has not come yet.

On May 27, the day before the protests began in New York City, some 754 Covid-19 cases were diagnosed, according to the city’s Department of Health. That was the last time the city recorded more than 700 cases on a single day.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-protests.html?smid=fb-share[/quote]
+1 There were protests all over the country, but we are only seeing spikes in certain states.  It's not the protest. It's the bars and people flouting distancing and wearing masks.[/quote]

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