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Johanna Ortiz prayed for her first child to be born healthy. The 41-year-old woman's pregnancy was deemed high risk because of her age. So when doctors at Harris Health System's Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital noted her elevated blood pressure on Friday, they decided Ortiz needed to deliver immediately by cesarean section - more than a week before her scheduled due date.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In a sign that the delta variant is affecting more children on a daily basis, an 11-month-old girl from the Houston area had to be airlifted to Temple because no pediatric hospitals in Houston would accept her as a transfer patient.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Hospital emergency rooms across the city say they are operating at or above bed-space capacity. Houston Methodist Hospital told ABC13 they are having to treat patients in hallways and waiting rooms. Meanwhile, Harris Health System said LBJ Hospital has been operating under an 'internal disaster' code on an on-and-off basis since Sunday.
On Wednesday morning, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, part of Harris Health System, declared an internal disaster due to a nursing shortage compounded by the increase in COVID-19 ICU patients. Derek Curtis, Chief Nursing Officer at LBJ, tells FOX 26 they had a patient wait more than 30 hours to be seen at the emergency center.
Hospitalizations have grown from 12,000, a month ago, to more than 61,000 now, as states like Mississippi say the contagious variant is sweeping over them "like a tsunami."
An 11-month-old girl with Covid-19 had to be airlifted to a hospital 150 miles away because of a shortage of pediatric beds in the Houston area, officials said.
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