New COVID-19 isolation facility nearly full in Austin

AUSTIN (KXAN) — This week, Austin and Travis County opened a new facility where people can go to safely quarantine after catching COVID-19, and it's already almost full. Local leaders said the increased need for places for people to go to deal with the illness illustrates how rapidly the omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading throughout the area.Austin Public Health would not specify where this new COVID-19 isolation facility is located, but shared it opened Tuesday to meet the in