In Harris County -- home to Houston and the nation’s third-most-populous county -- intensive-case capacity will be exhausted in 11 days, based on the two-week average expansion rates. Surge beds will be full in 38 days, according to Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s office.
There are 1,488 Covid-19 patients in ICU beds across the county, leaving only 134 intensive-case beds available and another 326 surge beds in reserve.
Covid-19 transmission is also ticking up in New Jersey, Murphy said Tuesday, just as the state begins to open after months on lockdown.
The transmission rate -- which measures how many people a carrier infects -- was at .75 on June 18 and has now hit .81, state data show. Murphy said intensive-care cases and ventilator use were also on the rise.
The increases were for a single day, he said, but we “cannot have a one-day increase turn into a trend.”
--With assistance from Elise Young and Joe Carroll.
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.