For the past 37 days, the trauma service area that includes Angelina and Nacogdoches counties have had a hospitalization rate of 15 percent or more of its hospitals’ total capacity.
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Trauma Service Area O – which includes Austin – just dropped below surge stage over the weekend, according to health officials. Author: Paul Livengood Updated: 1:37 PM CST January 26, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas As Austin s COVID-19 statistics have been flattening in the past week or so, the situation statewide still remains at surge levels.
In Tuesday s joint meeting with Austin City Council and Travis County Commissioners Court, Austin Public Health Authority Dr. Mark Escott said Trauma Service Area O – which accounts for Austin and its surrounding areas – had dropped just below the surge stage. The one in the middle, O, has turned yellow. That s us, Escott said. It has turned yellow because we began to drop below that 15% threshold yesterday at 14.59%.
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For the past 36 days, the trauma service area that includes Angelina and Nacogdoches counties have had a hospitalization rate of 15 percent or more of its hospitals’ total capacity.