A Texas-sized misunderstanding about hospital capacity in Houston

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Headlines with words such as “Houston hospitals” and “100% capacity” would have you think the city is about to start looking like Milan did back in March. It isn’t so.

Alarms set off by that number drove the Texas Medical Center, a “medical city” consisting of numerous Houston-area hospitals, to reorganize its hospital capacity data and to better contextualize it.

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