Texas hospitals are treating fewer than 1,000 patients with COVID-19 for the first time in two years.
A man with COVID-19, wearing a protective cover, is transferred from the emergency room to a COVID-19 unit at Starr County Memorial Hospital in Rio Grande City, Texas.
According to the, hospitalizations totaled 993 on Sunday. The last time COVID-19 patients in Texas numbered less than a thousand was April 4, 2020, before the state’s initial surge in hospitalizations, which rose to nearly 11,000 by late July that year. “Less than a thousand [hospitalizations] is a good place to be and this is what we’ve kind of been waiting for and watching really closely,” saidFewer people are getting severely ill and needing medical care, Shuford said, because nearly the entire Texas population has now developed at least some immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
“We expect, based on some antibody studies that we’ve done, that about 99 percent of our population has some antibodies to COVID-19, either from vaccination or from prior infection," Shuford said. Other infectious disease experts are also cautiously optimistic that vaccinations, combined with four waves of widespread infections—the most recent of which was driven by the omicron variant—will help minimize future surges in cases and hospitalizations.
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