The coronavirus has surged in Texas since June, threatening, at times, to overwhelm hospitals there. But the trend over the last 10 days or so suggests that the surge is plateauing, indicating that the state’s hospitals may avoid a worst-case scenario after policymakers and the public scrambled to rein in the spread.

“The hospitalizations in North Texas are stabilizing,” said Stephen Love, president and CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council. “We still have approximately 2,000 COVID-19 patients in our hospitals, but the rate of increase has leveled off and is slowing down, especially compared to two to three weeks ago.”