Prognosis
Texas Struggling to Keep Up With Covid-19 Tallies as Prisons Lag
- Governor revises count just hours after bemoaning data dumps
- Lone Star state outbreak spiking just weeks after reopening
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Texas is struggling to track a surge in Covid-19 cases as hospitalizations accelerate and the reserve of intensive-case beds shrinks in the state’s biggest cities.
Just hours after Governor Greg Abbott reported a record 2,622 new cases on Tuesday, health officials revised that to add more than 1,400, citing a data dump by two prisons. The addendum lifted the daily increase to 4.6%, the steepest 24-hour advance in more than eight weeks.