It’s been a minute since I said anything re COVID in Austin. The good news: we definitely seem to be on the backend of the delta surge. Daily hospital admits, which had hit a surge-high of 83.6, are down to 29.3 (kissing stage 3). Still a ways away from the 7 from early July.
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Hospitalizations and ICU are also declining. 329 in the hospital with 148 in the ICU, from the surge-highs of 653 and 231. In my head, 150 was always about the ICU high-point we wanted to say under. We have 35 adult ICU and 9 PICU beds available now (better than 0 we had before).
Statewide, we still have 8/22 TSAs with over 15% of beds being used by COVID (this was the “oh shit” hospitalization level before Abbott decided it wasn’t just before this surge). Highest is 22% in the Temple/Belton area. I forget how bad it was, but this is a ton better.
With all of these numbers, they’re still higher than they were before this surge started. The medical system is still more stressed than it was in July before this started happening.
So, all in all, good news. Not to the goal, but heading there.
Across the board, vaccinated people are doing leaps and bounds better than unvaccinated. The 5-11 vaccine seems promising and soon. Not to the goal, but again, definitely looks better. The smart people say we’re likely not to have a winter surge again. I like the sound of that.