BREAKING: Texas has never had more people hospitalized for COVID-19 than it is reporting today. We have 1,935 people hospitalized and over the last 7 days are averaging 1,836 patients per day. During the previous 7 days we we averaging 1,681 over 7-day period.
This comes less than a week after Gov. Greg Abbott announced bars, amusement parks and carnivals could open to 50 percent capacity.
The state still has more than 15,000 hospital beds available if numbers keep surging and more than 5,800 ventilators ready.
Since Wednesday 132 people have died from COVID-19 in Texas. We'll have updated numbers on deaths over last 24 hours later this afternoon.
