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In one TV interview, Abbott said the treatments - along with the promise of a vaccine soon - mean Texans have entered the “ninth inning of our challenge with COVID.” “Our focal point is gonna be working to heal those who have COVID, get them out of hospitals quickly, make sure they get back to their normal lives.” “We are not going to have any more lockdowns in the state of Texas,” Abbott told Dallas radio host Mark Davis on Thursday. That is the treatment President Donald Trump took when he had the virus last month. Shipments of the Regeneron antibody cocktail will soon follow, he said. Regions that reach that threshold have to reduce the occupancy of most businesses from 75% to 50% of capacity, among other things.Īlso in the interviews, Abbott touted that a new antibody therapy drug, Eli Lilly and Co.’s bamlanivimab, would start being distributed to Texas hospitals this week. Texas’ current posture toward the pandemic is more similar to that of Florida, another relatively large state with a GOP governor who has also held off on announcing new restrictions amid surging case numbers.ĭuring a wave of TV and radio appearances Thursday and Friday, Abbott acknowledged the state was seeing a virus spike but professed faith in the strategy he announced in mid-September that scales back reopenings if the number of COVID-19 patients in a region exceeds 15% of its hospital capacity for seven consecutive days. Pritzker, a Democrat, has warned that he could issue a mandatory stay-at-home order if the state does not turn around its numbers soon. Ohio has instituted a statewide curfew from 10 p.m. Texas is far from the only state seeing soaring case numbers, though others are responding much more dramatically. Hospitalizations have also been on a brisk upward trajectory, and deaths, which tend to lag behind the other metrics, have been creeping up. A record 10,826 new cases were reported Tuesday, surpassing the previous high of 10,791 in mid-July.
In recent days, Texas has reported daily new case tallies on par with where the state was during its summer spike. However, Nandy added, “it seems like at this point, there’s not a lot of will, even among people, for a full-scale stay-at-home like did in March because, of course, it has other consequences.” “The numbers are quite alarming, to be honest, because it’s not showing any sign of slowing down,” said Rajesh Nandy, associate professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
Public health experts and elected officials acknowledge they are up against a stronger sense of “COVID fatigue” than ever - a malaise that appears to be reflected in the state response. We need the state to step in and lead or get out of the way and let us lead,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo told reporters Tuesday. The mask order remains in place, but last week he ruled out “any more lockdowns,” and tensions are again rising with local officials who want more authority to impose safety restrictions. This week, more than 7,400 Texans are hospitalized for COVID-19, and the positivity rate has exceeded 10% for over three weeks.īut the governor’s strategy as the state heads into the holidays is to stay the course, relying on a 2-month-old blueprint to claw back reopenings regionally based on hospitalizations. Six days later, he took arguably his most drastic action yet, announcing a statewide mask mandate. For a second time in months, the Republican governor shut down bars and rolled back restaurant capacity. Greg Abbott’s “warning flag” level of 10% for more than a week.Ībbott swept into action. The positivity rate - the portion of tests that come back positive - had hovered above Gov. On June 26, Texas was reporting 5,102 people had been hospitalized due to the coronavirus, breaking a new record for the state.
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