# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [January 1, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428 "2021-01-01T08:03:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/2089 "2021-08-12T15:52:28Z")

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[Texas Hospitals Are Already Overloaded. Doctors Are ‘Frightened by What Is Coming.’ (yahoo.com)](https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-hospitals-already-overloaded-doctors-121726648.html)

> [T]he vast majority of patients hospitalized in Texas are not vaccinated…
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> To help manage the surge, Abbott appealed this week to health care workers outside the state to travel to Texas and help the overloaded hospitals.

Here’s an idea: Let unvaccinated health care workers (nurses, etc.) who refuse to take the vaccine care for the unvaccinated patients who refused to take the vaccine.

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