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Governor greg abbott s order preventing local governments and schools from requiring masks. and this comes as texas is facing a devastating surge in covid-19 hospitalizations, approaching the peak that the state saw during the 2020 holiday season. lucy kafanov is in houston where they have set up over flow covid-19 tents which is just a bad flash back to what we saw last year. reporter: absolutely, eric you. and devastating is exactly the right word. more than 10,000 texans hospitalized with covid. and reporting zero icu capacity. these are frightening numbers. thing are so bad that the republican governor here greg abbott on monday requested all elective procedures to be halted at hospitals. he s also directed the texas health department to find ....
And things people need and early cancer surgeries that we can t stap. the morale is low. our staff is overworked and doing overtime to cover things. we re taking great care of patients still. but the surge is still rising and i m not sure that we ll be able to meet the demands that we re seeing in the future. i m going to let that sink in. the concern you won t be able to meet the demand. you bring up the staffing concerns as well. i spoke this week with the same river health system that she just submitted her resignation because she s so exhausted. she s an icu nurse and so burnt out. here is the picture that she painted for us earlier this week. i work in a 12-bed icu. all 12 patients are all covid and unvaccinated. we do not have a fully vaccinated people in the icu. and they are young. we re watching not grand parents this time around, parents. parents with young children. we have a mother right now who ....