AUSTIN (KXAN) — Local health leaders say this week they didn’t have enough room to accommodate people from surrounding counties. In a media briefing Friday, they explained how the dire situation in Austin hospitals and ICUs is having a far-reaching impact on rural communities.
“We have patients in our surrounding counties who are starting to have to wait to be transferred for routine medical care,” said Dr. Desmar Walkes, the Austin-Travis County health authority. “We had over 20 folks waiting to transfer in to Austin-Travis County for care. Five of those were COVID patients and the rest were people who needed help with things like strokes and heart attacks.”
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