Houston hospitals comprising the world’s largest medical complex stopped reporting key COVID-19 metrics on their website after warning that bed capacity was being brought to overvoltage levels, according to a report.
The Texas Medical Center stopped updating its website for three days, annoying policy makers and residents who relied on the information to measure the spread of the coronavirus, the Houston Chronicle reports.
The halt came today after hospitals reported that their basic intensive care capacity was 100 percent, the newspaper reported.
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There were no updates until around 9 p.m. Saturday, leading to confusion about the hospitals’ ability to handle a massive spike in cases, which followed Governor Greg Abbott’s decision in May to lift the restrictions that slowed the virus. , according to the newspaper.
The document reported finding that when the charts reappeared, eight of the original 17 slides were removed, including any reference to hospital capacity or projections of future capacity. The TMC then called that update “incomplete”.
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Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told the newspaper that all figures and projection models were the same, but were reformed in an effort to clarify that reaching 100 percent capacity in an ICU is a goal. mobile, the newspaper reported.
The capacity of the system’s intensive care unit bed as of Sunday was 93 percent to 72 percent, according to the Chronicle.
A patient returns his test sample at a COVID-19 self-collection site June 29 in Houston. COVID-19 cases continue to rise throughout Texas. (AP Photo / David J. Phillip)
“This is just trying to be clear. We want to be as useful as possible, “Boom told the newspaper.” Obviously, this was delayed a couple of days because it is complicated: it brought together more or less 11 institutions, all trying to discover something that complicated and trying to discover how we express it. with a little more precision, it took a while, a little longer than any of us would have wanted, but simply because it’s complicated. I like what we came up with. “
Harris County Official Judge-Elect Lina Hidalgo expressed concern to KHOU-TV that the new format was even more confusing.
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“The moment is suspicious. I find it very, very troublesome, ”he told the station. “I said I’m not on board. We don’t need to be deceptive people. This message ultimately weakens our community’s ability to succeed when the message is diluted, when the numbers, projections, and definitions are changed mid-game, mid-battle. “
