Prognosis
Austin Sounds ‘Dire’ Covid Emergency as Available ICU Beds Drop
- City’s medical head asks residents to help avoid ‘catastrophe’
- Texas capital’s risk level raised to highest level this week
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With ICU beds down to a single digit, Austin sounded the alarm Saturday, using its emergency alert system to let residents in the Texas capital city know that the local state of the pandemic is “dire.”
The Austin area -- with a population of almost 2.4 million people -- has just six intensive-care unit beds left, state health data show. A total of 313 ventilators are available.