Public Health

More than 10,000 COVID-19 patients have been hospitalized in Texas this week, with at least 53 hospitals in the state reporting intensive care units at maximum capacity, The New York Times reported.

A temporary field hospital is slated to open in Mississippi as a coronavirus wave persists.

Fully vaccinated people have made up as few as 0.1 percent to as many as 5 percent of COVD-19 hospitalizations in some states since the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign, according to an Aug. 11 analysis from The New…

California will require teachers and other school staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo regular testing, the first state to do so, reports The Washington Post.

The Illinois Department of Public Health is rolling out a new portal that lets residents check their COVID-19 vaccination record online, the state announced Aug. 11. 

Multiple standalone emergency rooms in Texas are temporarily shut down amid a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to CNN.

The level of antibodies in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients' blood may be indicative of the vaccine's efficacy, early findings published Aug. 10 in the preprint server medRxiv suggest. 

Louisiana has reported a new record of COVID-19 hospitalizations every day for a week amid a surge of the virus, news station WVUE Fox 8 News reported Aug. 10.

Below are seven national COVID-19 trends as of Aug. 10, per The New York Times.

Recent COVID-19 surges are prompting some local leaders to defy governors who have banned mask mandates in their state, reports The New York Times.