Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American attorney who has served as the 48th governor of Texas since January 20, 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Abbott previously served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015. He is the third governor of any U.S. state to permanently use a wheelchair. He is also the first disabled governor in Texas history.
Dallas hospital capacity as of June 25 raises alarms
For those who wonder about or question Gov. Greg Abbott’s move today to shut down bars in the state and required restaurants to backtrack from 75 percent capacity to 50 percent, here is why: hospital capacity vs.
occupancy. According to a just-issued press release from the city of Dallas, the 25 hospitals in the city of Dallas on Thursday reported 6,083 total beds, with 4,425 occupied.
That is 71 percent occupied. Of the 942 total ICU beds, 683 — or 72.5 percent — are occupied. And of the ventilators available, 339 — 0r 35.3 percent — are in use.
And if you look at the graph above, you will see that occupied hospital bed and occupied ICU bed percentages are steadily trending upwards.
