About one in four patients hospitalized in North Texas have COVID-19, as the highly-contagious omicron variant continues to spread throughout Dallas-Fort...
The total number of occupied beds and intensive care unit beds in the area has stayed relatively flat in the past month or so, according to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a crisis facing hospitals, health experts said.
“A typical… COVID patient is about the same as any patient. But if the COVID patient is on higher levels of oxygen, then the workload doubles,” he said. “If they go to the [intensive care unit], it’s obviously even more than that.” Some areas of the health system are seeing more patients than others, including emergency departments. Hospital staff are fielding sharp increases in the number of people coming to hospitals for COVID-19 testing, Love said.
Even if hospitals have enough open beds, “if you don’t have the health care personnel needed to take care of those patients, it doesn’t do you much good right now,” said Catherine Troisi, infectious disease epidemiologist with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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