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The child tested positive for Covid-19, according to Amanda Callaway, spokesperson for Harris Health System. Callaway said the girl was having seizures and needed to be intubated, but Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, where she was first taken, does not offer pediatric services.
None of the region’s major pediatric hospitals had beds available, Callaway said.
The baby is seen in a video posted by Harris Health being gently lifted into an air ambulance Thursday morning for a flight to a hospital in Temple, Texas, about 150 miles away.
Overall, Harris Health System has seen a huge increase in the number of Covid-19 patients, and at least half of intensive care patients have the virus, Callaway said.
“Add that in with normal emergency needs and it overwhelms the system,” Callaway told CNN.
Harris Health is part of Texas Medical Center, the largest in the world, according to its website. There were 336 Covid-19 patients admitted on Thursday, the highest daily number of admissions since February, according to its latest update.
The cases are mostly found in areas where vaccination rates remain low, Zients said in a briefing on Monday.
Hospitals are filling up again with patients as the virus ravages the unvaccinated population.
Gov. Greg Abbott has said he will not impose a statewide mask mandate and has previously banned local government entities from requiring vaccines.
Texans know “what the standards are, what practices they want to adopt to protect themselves,” he told CNN affiliate KPRC last week. “It’s time for individual responsibility.”
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