Organized chaos : San Antonio s winter weather causes cascade of problems for health care system
Feb. 16, 2021
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Firefighters battle a blaze at an apartment complex near the intersection of West Avenue and West Silver Sands Drive on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 Residents of the complex said that electric power had been out most of the day because of the snow and cold weather.Billy Calzada /Staff photographer
Severe winter weather conditions and widespread power outages are upending health care services across the San Antonio area, taxing emergency medical providers and forcing some hospitals to rely on backup generators for power.
Emergency calls for service to the San Antonio Fire Department and area ambulance services have skyrocketed in recent days, after much of central Texas was blanketed in several inches of snow. EMS providers are largely transporting patients to whichever is the nearest hospital as they struggle to respond to the large volume of calls and n
We re wearing jackets and scarves inside our house : Temperatures plunge as thousands without heat
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It all depends on you : San Antonio hospitals even closer to reaching full capacity
Jan. 17, 2021
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Paramedic George Lombardo talks to a COVID-19 positive patient, Teodora Sobrino, being transported by Superior Mobile Health from a smaller emergency hospital to a larger one on July 13, 2020 in San Antonio. Sobrino passed away on July 17 at the age of 67. Since March, 1,809 Bexar County residents have died of COVID-19.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Rosalinda Espinoza, 58, receives an infusion of antibodies to battle her COVID-19 at the Freeman Coliseum complex on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. An exposition hall at Freeman has been converted into an ad hoc COVID-19 treatment area.Billy Calzada /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
San Antonio breaks COVID-19 hospitalization record for third time this week
Jan. 7, 2021
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Paramedic Katheryn Wieding cleans the Superior Mobile Health ambulance after transferring a patient to a hospital on July 14 in San Antonio.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
For the third day in a row Thursday, San Antonio set new records for the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 and for the number of people newly admitted to city hospitals to be treated for the disease caused by the coronavirus.
City and county officials for weeks have been warning that local hospitals will soon become overwhelmed if hospitalizations continue to increase at the current rate. Only 10 percent of the city’s hospital beds are still available for new patients.