CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto January 11, 2022 15:08:00
In houston. the houston health department says it administered more than 45,000 covid-19 tests in the first week of january, that's eight times the amount in the same period in november. so a lot more people are testing, certainly finding a lot more infections, the big question is, how are the hospitals handling this? >> reporter: that's a big question. and there's a big concern. harris county judge calling it a tsunami of cases, so much so, increasing the covid-19 threat level to red, which is the highest. officials here take a look at several factors including the hospitalization rate. the 1...