The military medical personnel include nurses, respiratory therapists, and medical doctors, and will support Hendrick Medical Center in Abilene, CHI St. Luke's Health - Memorial Hospital in Lufkin, and Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center in Eagle Pass.
"Thank you to our partners at the Department of Defense for supporting Texas' COVID-19 response by providing these additional resources to Abilene, Lufkin, and Eagle Pass," said Governor Abbott. "The medical personnel deployed to our communities will provide much needed support to our front line healthcare workers."
Fort Duncan Regional Medical Centers at this time is inundated with Covid-19 patients. As of Wednesday there are 63 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 with more than 11 on ventilators.
This does not include patients who are hospitalized for other conditions which is pushing the medical facility to full capacity.
Up until now, 1 out of every 7 people have been afflicted by the deadly virus that has killed 185 people in our community.
That means that 1 out of every 47 people who have tested positive for the Covid-19 virus have passed away.
One out of every 6.6 people in our community have tested positive for Covid-19.