Amarillo hospitals have more beds available for severely ill

Amarillo hospitals have more beds available for severely ill due to decrease of flu patients
Amarillo hospitals have more beds available for severely ill due to decrease of flu patients
By Ryan Cross | February 8, 2021 at 6:11 PM CST - Updated February 8 at 6:32 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - The lack of flu cases this winter are helping provide more beds for severely ill patients in our hospitals.
One local doctor says during bad flu seasons, there were points where our larger hospitals wouldn’t be able to take in new severely ill patients.
“There were times during flu seasons, where the hospitals would go on diversion meaning that they can’t accept any critically new ill patients. They have to divert to other hospitals, during our bad flu seasons that would happen a few times every winter that we would have hospitals go on diversion like that,” said Dr. William Biggs, managing partner at the Amarillo Medical Specialists.

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