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In Texas, health officials in Houston were cautiously optimistic as the number of people requiring hospitalization "seems to have tapered off a bit." But deaths in the second-largest state soared above 4,000, and officials in the border area of Starr County, where a team of navy doctors was sent to help the only hospital, said they were considering creating an ethics committee to discuss rationing hospital resources."It sounds cold, and I hate to think that we would even have to do it, but we need to at least consider what chances a patient has of surviving," County Judge Eloy Vera said. U.S. deaths from COVID-19 rose for a second week in a row to more than 5,200 people in the week ending July 19, up five per cent from the previous seven days, a Reuters analysis found.The country reported more than 460,000 new coronavirus cases last week, up nearly 15 per cent from the prior week, according to the analysis of data from The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the outbreak.https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-july-21-covid-19-1.5657023