Texas Judge Says No ICU Beds For Kids: ‘Your Child Will Wait For Another Child To Die'
A Texas judge spelled out the dire COVID-19 situation for young people in the state on Friday, telling a news conference that “in Dallas, we have zero ICU beds left for children.”
“That means if your child’s in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have COVID and need an ICU bed, we don’t have one,” said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
“Your child will wait for another child to die,” he bluntly pointed out.
“Your child will just not get on the ventilator, your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed,” Jenkins added. “But they won’t be getting one here unless one clears.”
The situation for adults does not appear to be much better. Jenkins tweeted Friday that only 17 adult ICU beds were currently available in the county. . Texas currently has more than 11,200 COVID-19 patients in hospital. Statewide, there are only 323 ICU beds available — as the number of people requiring hospital treatment spikes, fueled by the spread of the more contagious delta variant and the plateauing of the vaccination rate.
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