Hospitalizations

This wave is hitting as the nursing workforce in Texas is burnt out and shrinking.

As of Tuesday, 284 pediatric COVID-19 patients were admitted in hospitals across the state.

As new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to climb in Texas, hospitals statewide are sounding the alarm about waning capacity and staffing shortages. How dire is the current situation and what are the implications for health outcomes? What needs to happen to address these challenges?

Texas saw two records for daily COVID-19 cases this week. More than 9,000 Texans are hospitalized with COVID-19 — the most since July. And the surge is expected to get worse.

The Laredo area’s hospitalization rate only trailed behind the 37.7% rate for the Panhandle hospital region and 36.8% rate for the El Paso region on Sunday, according to state data. On Monday, it fell slightly to fourth-highest at 28.1%.

As of late July, there were more than 9,500 patients with COVID-19 in Texas hospitals — and more than 6,000 had died. Medical teams from the Army and Navy…

A 30-year-old man has died from coronavirus in San Antonio after attending a “COVID-19 party." The event was intended to test the validity of the virus’s…

This post has been updated. It was originally published on Sunday, July 5, at 10:48 p.m.San Antonio hospitals are under duress, and they have been for…

San Antonio has continued to experience increasing COVID-19 case and hospitalization numbers over the past several weeks. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff…