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Austin Travis County's Medical Director raised concerns about staff, patients and COVID numbers after the holiday weekend AUSTIN, Texas - Hospitals in the Austin area are once again running out of manned ICU…

As of Saturday, there were only six open ICU beds in the Austin, Texas area, according to state data. The state is facing a surge in new coronavirus…

AUSTIN (KXAN) - State data shows that the Austin area of ​​11 counties has only 13 intensive care beds available. This means that more than 98% of all intensive care beds in the region are currently occupied. It does so when…

A health care worker prepares a vaccine at an Austin Public Health vaccination event in February…

Brent Thompson from Buda has been struggling with breathing for more than a week. While his condition begins to improve, he remains on oxygen at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Central Austin.Thompson was one of 608 people in the…

Texas counted more than 10,000 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 for the first time since early February as a recent summer surge in coronavirus cases continues to drain critical care resources across the state.According to state health…

The number of occupied intensive care beds has dropped to single digits this week as the Austin area weather the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. As of Monday, Region O - which consists of 2.3 million people in 11 counties: Travis,…

Austin Public Health leaders on Friday warned the public that there are only 16 staffed intensive care beds left in the entire area, the lowest number of such beds since the coronavirus pandemic began, before vaccines became widespread.…

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Just a week after Austin-Travis County transitioned to level 4 risk-based COVID-19 guidelines, case numbers and hospital admissions have pushed the area nearly to level 5. On Friday evening, Austin Public…