A hospital in Houston, Texas, says its intensive care unit is near capacity as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to surge in The Lone Star State. Texas Medical Center (TMC), the self-declared largest medical complex in the world, said on Tuesday that 97 percent of its ICU beds are occupied. At the current rate of infections, all of the hospital's beds, including the backups added during spikes, will be full in the next two weeks, TMC data shows. Inevitably, hospitals will see a shortage in staff members and overstretched clinicians will contract the virus themselves. On Tuesday, Texas Children's Hospital announced it was admitting adult transfer patients, both with and without COVID-19, to help other hospitals out.

Source: Daily Mail June 24, 2020 22:09 UTC