Austin breaks record for covid-19 patients in intensive care

Austin – The capital of the state of Texas registered on Wednesday in its metropolitan area the largest number of patients in intensive care units with diseases related to covid-19 since the pandemic began last year, according to the most recent information from the authorities in Austin.

As of Wednesday afternoon, the Austin Office of Public Health reported that 223 people were admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) with 145 ventilators.

Wednesday is the third day in a row that the record has been broken in Austin with the most patients with COVID-19 in intensive care units and the most people with the disease with connected ventilators.

On Tuesday, 217 people were registered in ICU and 137 with ventilators.

The Austin area was just one hospitalization away from equaling the previous record with the most people hospitalized for COVID-19 at the same time, which is 619 hospitalizations recorded during the wave of infections in January. On Wednesday, 618 people were hospitalized for illnesses related to the disease.

Austin-Travis County Health Authority Dr Desmar Walkes said Tuesday that while the number of people needing intensive care and ventilators continues to rise, there is some hope that Austin has reached the peak of the current increase because the average weekly mobile of new hospitalizations has stalled.

The Austin Office of Public Health uses weekly averages of new daily hospitalizations to gauge the threat level of the spread of coronavirus within the community. On Wednesday, the mean was 76.

The average for the last week has remained between 76 and the recent high of 83.

The pandemic record for the moving weekly average of new daily hospitalizations was 93.7, recorded in January.