Area hospitals make COVID safety plea for New Year s weekend
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Grayson, Fannin and Cooke County health officials are pleading with locals to stay safe this holiday weekend. Due to rising COVID numbers in the area, area hospitals have sent out a public health statement through the Grayson County Office of Emergency Management.
Hospitals represented in the statement included North Texas Medical Center in Gainesville, Muenster Hospital, Carrus Hospital in Sherman, Texoma Medical Center in Denison, TMC Bonham Hospital, and Wilson N. Jones Regional Medical Center in Sherman. COVID-19 cases continue to increase in our county, and so are the number of patients in our hospitals, the statement release Thursday said. Currently, our ICU beds are full and more than 40% of all ICU beds are filled with COVID-19 patients. Our Emergency Departments are overflowing with many patients waiting for care and rooms.
Pottsboro mayor says it s courting disaster
A college bubble community may soon be coming to Texoma for the spring semester even though city officials do not think now is time or Pottsboro is the place for the program.
The U Experience is a college campus slated to open at Tanglewood Resort to allow students who are are learning remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic to still have the college experience. Through the resort, representatives for the company said students will be able to have some of the college experience despite distance learning. This last spring, millions of college students were impacted. They were pulled from their support network and truly were missing out on the college experience, The U Experience President Adam Bragg said.