There's an influx in COVID-19 cases in North Texas. Right now, hospitals are reporting the biggest wave of cases in over three months.
"I would call it a wave. I would not classify this as a surge because we're running around 705-710 people daily in our hospitals with COVID," Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council President and CEO Stephen Love said.
"Our overall occupancy in hospitals are running approximately 91%, which is pretty high," Love said."In our ICU units, COVID now counts for 7.25% of the patients and that's up fairly significantly from where it was a month ago." "The BA.5 [variant] is extremely contagious. Even if you've been vaccinated, you could contract it and test positive. But if you have been vaccinated and you're up on your boosters, the likelihood of you being hospitalized is greatly diminished," Love said.
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