3 counties in Texas have run out of ICU beds.

Did trump fail America with the Covid virus?

You do realize he's starting to babble, don't you? (I'm addressing this to Boilerman's keeper.)

Read this -Speaking on Newsmax’s “Saturday Report,” Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), ripped into the mainstream media that has been focusing on the spike in coronavirus cases in Texas and Florida, saying of the numbers in the last month, “If you look at the deaths, the precious lives that have been lost, New York deaths are up over 8,000 in that period; Texas is up a little over 700.” Gohmert followed with a swipe at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, adding, “Every life is precious, but we don’t have a governor sending people with COVID to our nursing homes. We don’t have them killing and spreading the virus to people who are most vulnerable like Gov. Cuomo did.”Responding to a Washington Post article titled, “New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic,” Gohmert told host Grant Stinchfield, “That’s what they do: They lie; they misrepresent, and they’ve taken their lead – well, I’m not sure if they’ve taken their lead from the Democrats or the Democrats took their lead from the media, but either way they work together and they misrepresent the facts.”Gohmert answered those in the media focused on Texas and Florida: “And if you look at the ‘upticks,’ we don’t have a complete explanation for those things yet, other than, like in Texas, you look back at numbers May 26 to this morning and Texas is up about 75, 76, 77 thousand new cases.”

He continued, “We’re testing people like crazy here in Texas.Gohmert stated, “So the numbers are up of cases, but we’re testing more than we’ve ever tested, and that’s a good thing. At least that’s what Pelosi and Schumer and those folks say.”

He pointed out, “We know that we’re getting a big influx of the coronavirus coming across our borders. The Left, Pelosi and Schumer have to know that, so for those that didn’t really want to believe it, you have to start believe that the Democrats don’t care about people getting the coronavirus here in America. They want them to get it, because anything they can do, no matter what lie, what kind of malicious prosecution they’re involved in, they want to defeat Donald Trump … That’s all they can think about right now.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-coronavirus-pence-abbott-resources-outbreak

Thanks for confirming what is happening in Texas. 

Abbott called the hospitals on Saturday and told them to quit reporting ICU availability (they are at 100% of capacity). They promptly followed his orders and scrubbed that data from their reports. Conservatives think they can keep sweeping COVID-19 under the rug and then magically one day it will disappear.

Nice twisting of the truth - According to a document obtained by The Houston Chronicle, about 28 percent of ICU beds are being used by COVID-19 patients, while 72 percent of them are currently occupied by non-COVID-19 patients.Texas Medical Center hospitals stopped updating key metrics showing the stress rising numbers of COVID-19 patients were placing on their facilities for more than three days, rattling policymakers and residents who have relied on the information to gauge the spread of the coronavirus.

The institutions — which together constitute the world’s largest medical complex — reported Thursday that their base intensive care capacity had hit 100 percent for the first time during the pandemic and was on pace to exceed an “unsustainable surge capacity” of intensive care beds by July 6.

Then, after reporting numerous charts and graphs almost daily for three months, the organization posted no updates until around 9 p.m. Saturday, sowing confusion about the hospitals’ ability to withstand a massive spike in cases that has followed Gov. Greg Abbott’s May decisions to lift restrictions intended to slow the virus.

When the charts reappeared, eight of the 17 original slides had been deleted — including any reference to hospital capacity or projections of future capacity. The TMC later called that update “incomplete.Following a Houston Chronicle story highlighting the missing charts, the TMC at 6 p.m. Sunday posted updated data featuring most of the original information with a few cosmetic changes, as well as some additional slides attempting to better explain the hospitals’ capacity.

Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom stressed that the new data was not reinvented — all the figures and projection models are the same — but was simply reformatted in an effort to make clear that reaching 100 percent of capacity in an ICU is a moving target. TMC hospitals have a combined 373 beds, for instance, that can become ICU beds with a “challenging” but “doable” amount of effort, Boom said, with the reassignment of trained staff and equipment.

Doing so would take the TMC facilities’ combined 93 percent ICU capacity as of the Sunday report down to 72 percent, the chart shows.

Boom said he and his peers knew as the pandemic wore on that the measurement of ICU capacity the slides displayed was imperfect and did not convey the way they are run, but did not revisit the charts as quickly as they should have.

“This is just trying to be clear. We want to be as helpful as we possibly can,” Boom said. “Obviously, this got delayed a couple days because it’s complicated — you put 11 or so institutions together all trying to figure out something this complicated and trying to figure out how we express it a little bit more accurately — it took a while, a little longer than any of us would have liked, but simply because it’s complicated. I like what we came up with.”

The executives are working closely with Gov. Greg Abbott, Mayor Sylvester Turner and County Judge Lina Hidalgo, TMC CEO Bill McKeon said when sharing the new information with the local government officials Sunday night.

“They have all encouraged us to bring the most comprehensive, real-time information forward to help them make the most informed decisions as we all navigate the COVID-19 pandemic,” McKeon said.

The changes capped a week dominated by concerns over hospital capacity.

Abbott had expressed displeasure to hospital executives with negative headlines about ICU capacity, sources familiar with the talks said. Abbott spokesman John Wittman said any insinuation that the governor suggested the executives publish less data is false.

“The governor’s office believes all hospitals should be reporting accurate data to the state and to the public as often as possible,” Wittman said Sunday morning. “We demanded more information to share, not less.””

The Texas hospitals are all saying that they list their normal ICU capacity, but when needed they can easily increase capacity.  All within two days it's already being done.  Once again, Libs are making something of nothing.

The same Libs argue that NY had no choice but to send corona patients back to the old folks home, killing thousands.  Apparently Texas has bright Conservative folks, and NY has stupid Liberal folks.  Texas is already making plans in case ICU demand increases beyond true capacity.  You know............like utilizing all of the empty facilities in the region likes schools, stadiums and so on.

Only a stupid Con would say that the coronavirus outbreak in Texas is "nothing."

Only a stupid Con would say that wheeling desperately sick people into empty buildings with no medical facilities is a good idea.

Only a stupid Con would twist and distort the truth about the pandemic just to support a traitorous President's reelection chances.

Only a stupid Con would be named "Kevin".