"Texas reported 1,801 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday — the biggest single-day jump in cases since the pandemic began.
A growing outbreak in the Texas Panhandle is a big reason for the surge in cases. More than 700 new cases were reported out of Amarillo on Saturday with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warning those numbers will continue to climb as the state increases testing in that hot spot...."
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...s-15275484.php
While the positive numbers and deaths are increasing, Abbott has consistently stressed the state’s death rate is far below most other states and the state still has plenty of hospital beds and ventilators available. Texas has 1,791 people hospitalized and has more than 17,000 available beds still.
Wow... 17,000 available hospital beds for 30M+ people.
Abbott is betting Republican control of the state on modern epidemiology being wrong about the behavior of this thing. It will be grim business when reality strikes back.