Texas Nurses Are Overwhelmed And Hospitals Are Nearing Capacity Amid Delta Surge

Health care professionals are sounding the alarm about the rapidly rising rates of new COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions and calling on Texans to do their part to help beat the virus as facilities near capacity and nurses are pushed to the point of exhaustion.The state's COVID hospitalizations quadrupled in July. The majority of those hospitalized have been unvaccinated, as were the more than 99.5% of people in Texas who died due to COVID-19 between Feb. 8 and July 14.