Texas now has a county-selectable dashboard. This is Harris County, where Houston is located. Based on the 18-day lag, Houston has just recently finished up its period of gradual increase, and is now entering its period of skyrocketing death counts.
The analysis done previously saw a lag of about 5 days between new cases and hospitalization increases, so Houston's hospitalization pressures now correspond to the rise in cases which began about June 16.
They don't make a Houston-only hospitalization trend graph, but here is the Texas graph for hospitalizations, which indeed steepens its slope right on June 21.
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