Galveston County extends COVID disaster into 2022 as UTMB feels 'crunch'
The Galveston County Daily News, December 27, 2021
The increase in cases is being felt across the county, including at its largest medical provider, the University of Texas Medical Branch, where hundreds of employees are out sick because of positive COVID-19 tests. About 300 of the medical branch’s 11,000 employees were quarantined as of Friday because they had tested positive for COVID-19, said Dr. Gulshan Sharma, chief medical officer. About half were front-line medical workers, and the number of quarantined is near that during the height of the delta variant surge, Sharma said.