Cherry I live in the Houston area and we have not finished the First wave. We just opened way to soon and our first wave numbers have spiked to record levels since this pandemic started. Largest Medical Center in the World and we are running out of beds in the next few weeks!
The Texas Medical Center contains 54 medicine-related institutions, with 21 hospitals and eight specialty institutions, eight academic and research institutions, four medical schools, seven nursing schools, three public health organizations, two pharmacy schools and a dental school.[7] All 54 institutions are not-for-profit. Among the affiliated medical schools are the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Texas A&M College of Medicine. Some member institutions are located outside the city of Houston.
In 2016, more heart surgeries were performed at the Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world with 13,600 heart surgeries annually. 180,000 annual surgeries were performed. The TMC performed one surgery every three minutes. Over 25,000 babies were delivered each year, more than one baby every 20 minutes. The Texas Medical Center offered over 9,200 total patient beds.[8]
The Center receives an average of 3,300 patient visits a day, and over eight million annual patient visits, including over 18,000 international patients. The TMC has over 750,000 ER visitors each year. In 2011, the center employed over 106,000 people, including 20,000 physicians, scientists, researchers and other advanced degree professionals in the life sciences.[9] The TMC has over 160,000 visitors each day.
The Texas Medical Center houses the world's largest children's hospital (Texas Children's Hospital), as well as the world's largest cancer hospital (MD Anderson Cancer Center). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center
UPDATE | June 26, 2020, 4 p.m.: At noon today, Harris County raised its COVID-19 Threat System to Level 1, signifying severe and uncontrolled levels of COVID-19 across the county. Outbreaks are worsening and the county’s ability to perform testing and contact tracing is strained. Residents are encouraged to stay home and work safe. “At this level, residents take action to minimize contact with others wherever possible and avoid leaving home except for the most essential needs, like going to the grocery store for food and medicine,” the county website explained.
At a late morning press conference, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo spoke about the current circumstances.
“Today, we find ourselves careening toward a catastrophic and unsustainable situation,” she said. “Our current hospitalization rate is on pace to overwhelm the hospitals in the near future. … It is incumbent on all of us to buckle down and act.”
Although there is space in hospital surge capacity right now, she said, that space could run out in a matter of weeks.
FOLKS the Second Wave is starting with CV19 and it not j just NYC it in many city's all over the USA gary is doing a shut load of deals as I said the other day PCTL is in the right place and the right time we could EASILY see a huge run starting today. I am loaded up but if your not you need to buy all the PCTL stock you can next week as .10 will be nothing when we hit multiple Dollars.