As long as it has to.
The National Guard will pop up field hospitals as they are currently doing in Austin
Sarah Eckhardt said the convention center will only be utilized when local hospitals say it's necessary.
www.kvue.com
New York at its worst didn't exhaust it's capacity. I seriously doubt TX will. Especially now that we have new treatment tools in the arsenal. What you aren't mentioning or possibly are not aware of is we've flipped the stats in terms of treatment and now if you go into ICU on a ventilator you are more likely than not to make it out alive. This is a quote from mid June
"At the Parkland ICU, they’ve got it down to 25%, which is remarkable. And they ascribe that to increased practice and tremendous proficiency of our ICU nursing teams."
www.texmed.org
The stats are even better today. Going into diversion, or surge, is common and not a death sentence.