Harris County also instituted what it called a public health threat level assessment that will alert residents if conditions worsen or improve. The level remains at the second-highest on the four-tier scale.
The ad hoc medical facility opened at NRG Stadium on the city’s south side will be reestablished if pressure on the local hospital system becomes “severe,” Hidalgo said in a meeting with reporters.
“We’re moving in the wrong direction with hospital admissions and if it continues we’ll have to see what else we could do including sounding the alarm to our residents and moving our alert system to red,” Lemaitre wrote.
--With assistance from Jennifer Jacobs and Justin Sink.
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