AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF NEWS)- The capital of Texas continues to be a hot spot for COVID-19 and now the positivity rate in Austin is the highest in the country.
Mayor Steve Adler is now considering a 35-day stay-at-home order in order to lower the spread.
“So we can get a restart a second chance on how you open up an economy this time to take advantaged of the lessons learned in May and June and realize that we wanna open up the economy but this time it’s gonna look a lot different,” he said.
He told WFAA’s Inside Texas Politics that they need to make a decision in at least two weeks.
“Right now the trajectory of Austin would indicate to us that if we don’t something about the trajectory we could be running out of hospital capacity within the next two week ICU’s potentiality before that,” said Adler.
Adler was asked about the future of Texas Longhorns football. He says that he cannot imagine filling Longhorn stadium with fans this year.
“Maybe if it was spaced out but boy that’s a hard thing to do frankly i don’t know how teams get through an entire fall in that kind of proximity and then keep everybody safe,” he said.
On Saturday, Travis county’s case totals rose to 11,131, with 136 deaths.
