Texas Well being Officers will maintain a press convention on Wednesday – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Price

As COVID-19 cases and hospital stays in Texas continue to rise, state health officials hold a press conference Wednesday.

The Texas Department of State Health Services announced that it will hold a media briefing on “What the Latest Data and Science Tells Us About COVID-19”.

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The two speakers are Jennifer Shuford, Chief State Epidemiologist, and Saroj Rai, Senior Scientific Advisor.

Amid the recent surge in hospital admissions, the DSHS announced to hospitals that they were no longer allocating funds to temporary emergency hospital staff.

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