Texas 'fully prepared' for COVID-19 hospital needs


Reuters | Texas | Updated: 04-04-2020 02:02 IST | Created: 04-04-2020 01:55 IST
Texas 'fully prepared' for COVID-19 hospital needs
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Texas is fully prepared to meet hospital capacity needs for the coronavirus pandemic and should be able to provide sufficient numbers of ventilators as needs arise, Governor Greg Abbott said on Friday.

With nearly 20,000 hospital beds available after a 142 % increase in capacity to treat the virus, Abbott told a news conference he did not expect to the kind of hospital overload problems suffered by New York. 

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