Austin-area ICUs remain full

While overall hospitalizations for Covid-19 are declining in the Austin-Travis County area, local ICUs are still struggling to keep up. “… We are not past this surge yet,” the city of Austin and Travis County warned in a joint Sept. 20 statement. Health officials explain that despite an encouraging downward trend in cases, hospital ICU capacities are completely full. The current surge is different than previous ones, officials said, since all acute care hospitals were already nearly full…