Speaking to reporters earlier this week, Interim Health Authority Dr.
Mark Escott spelled out Austin s start to the new year in no uncertain terms: It appears we are going to enter 2021 in a state of emergency, said Escott at a Dec. 28 press conference. In the next several weeks, we may run out of hospital beds, we may run out of ICU beds, and it could happen a lot sooner than that – as early as a week to two weeks from now.
The dire warning is one of many from local health officials amidst what officials have deemed an ongoing worsening condition of COVID-19 in Austin-Travis County since November.