Battling the current COVID surge

Dr. Robert Leverence, chief medical officer of UT Health Physicians, discusses how Bexar County is taking safety measures during the current COVID-19 surge.

“Our goal is to stop the need for a potential field hospital, and a lot of measures are being taken. For instance, we’re creating more bed capacity in hospitals by no longer doing elective surgeries,” Dr. Leverence said. Meanwhile, field hospitals that were built last summer at the Freeman Coliseum during the second coronavirus surge are on standby.

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