Dallas County closes worst week of epidemics with 2,111 new corona virus cases and 8 deaths

6:35 pm Updated: Edited to add information about Torrent County victims.

A further 2,111 corona virus cases were reported in Dallas County on Saturday, all of which are considered new. Eight new COVID-19 deaths have also been reported.

One of the latest victims was a farmer branch man and a Garland man in his 50s; Two Dallas men, a Dallas woman, an Irving man and a Mesquite man in his 60s; And a Dizoto woman in the 80s. Everyone was seriously ill at the hospital, and everyone except the farmer branch man had basic health conditions.

This is the worst week of the COVID-19 epidemic in the county, said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.

“When the news about the vaccine is exciting, remember that you have two‘ vaccines ’or better tools,” Jenkins said in a written statement. “One is the ‘vaccine’ you can wear: your mask.” The new epidemic will lead to more people and more costs. ”

Of the new cases reported on Saturday, 1,669 have been confirmed and 442 are cases. The newly declared cases bring the county’s total confirmed cases to 141,972 and potential cases to 15,364. The county reported 1,323 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and 52 deaths.

The county recently announced that it only counts positive antigen tests (sometimes called rapid tests) as possible events; A few antibody and “home” results were added earlier.

While other North Texas counties provide estimates of how many people have recovered from the virus, Dallas County officials have not reported recoveries, indicating that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not use that metric.

Health officials use hospitalization, intensive care admissions, and emergency room visits as key criteria to detect the real-time impact of COVID-19. During the 24-hour period ending Friday, 786 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care at hospitals in the county. During the same period, 525 ER visits were for symptoms of the disease.

In the past 30 days, the county has reported 4,520 cases among school-age children and staff from 735 schools in Dallas County.

The county said there are currently 97 long-term maintenance facilities with COVID-19 outbreaks. In the past 30 days, the county has reported 26 outbreaks of the virus in church-living facilities, including homeless shelters, group homes and half-homes.

The county’s provisional seven-day average of daily new confirmed and potential cases for the month of November 29-December. 5 Reporting Period 56.6 Daily new cases per 1,560 or 100,000 residents. Health officials said it was the highest case rate the county has seen since the outbreak began.

Dallas County did not give a positive rating to all COVID-19 tests conducted in the area; District health officials said they did not have an accurate count of how many tests are performed each day. But as of the county’s most recent reporting period, 21.6% of hospitals with COVID-19 symptoms tested positive for the virus. This is similar to the previous reporting period when 21.7% of patients tested positive.

Statewide data

Across the state, a further 15,818 cases and 235 COVID-19 deaths were reported Saturday.

The Texas State Department of Health Services updated its COVID-19 dashboard Friday. Of the new cases on Saturday, 13,254 were confirmed and 2,564 cases are pending.

446 recently confirmed cases and 96 old cases were recently reported by laboratories.

Texas has now registered a total of 1,464,362 corona virus cases – 1,321,578 confirmed and 142,784 potential. The death toll in the state is 23,800.

Texas hospitals have 9,192 COVID-19 patients, including 2,580 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. On Saturday, 15.45% of patients in the hospital area covering the Dallas-Fort Worth area were COVID-19 patients.

As part of a dashboard update on Friday, the government retired from both previously used methods to calculate its positive rating. – One is when the laboratory results are reported to the state, the other is based on the reported dates of the cases.

The state will continue to report positive rates based on the date of test sample collection, but this now distinguishes rates between molecular and antigen tests or rapid tests, which are considered potential events by most health departments.

The statewide seven-day average positive rate for molecular tests based on the date of test sample collection was 13.1% as of Friday. State health officials said the use of data based on it when people are tested provides a very accurate positive rate.

For antigen tests, the positive rate for the same period was 9.1%.

Torrent County

Torrent County reported 1,276 corona virus cases and 25 new deaths on Saturday. This is the sixth day of the county with double-digit deaths.

Of the COVID-19 deaths reported on Saturday, 20 were more than 30 days old, health officials said.

The most recent victims include 12 Ford Worth residents: a man over 100, a man in his 90s, a man and a woman in his 80s, a man in his 70s, a man in his 60s, a man in his 50s and a man in his 40s, And a woman in her 30s.

The dead included three Mansfield residents: a man in his 70s, a woman in his 60s and a woman in his 40s.

Among the 10 victims were a Keller woman over 100 years old, a Hurst man in the 90s, a Watuka woman in the 90s, a Grape woman in the 70s, a Westworth village woman in the 70s, a Bedford man in the 60s, two Grand Prairie men in their 60s, and one in their 50s. Yules is a man and an Arlington woman in her 20s.

Health officials said all but two of the victims had basic health conditions.

Officials did not say which deaths were considered old or which were new.

The total number of newly declared cases counts is 118,207, of which 104,222 are confirmed cases, 13,985 are potential cases and 85,710 are recoveries. The death toll stands at 972.

As of Saturday numbers in the County Dashboard, 935 people have been hospitalized with the virus.

Colin County

The state added a total of 587 confirmed corona virus cases to Colin County on Saturday, up from 31,856. Three new COVID-19 deaths have been reported, bringing the county’s death toll to 298.

No details about the latest victims are available.

According to state data, the county has 4,159 active cases of the virus and recorded 27,697 recoveries.

The county’s Corona virus dashboard only serves a total of hospitals, now numbering 351.

Tenton County

Tenton County recorded 423 corona virus cases, 345 of which are active, Saturday.

No new deaths have been reported, bringing the county’s death toll to 165.

The newly reported cases bring the county total to 29,886, of which 8,845 are active and 20,876 are recoveries.

The newly declared cases accounted for 25,183 county total molecular cases and 4,703 antigen cases.

According to county data, 136 COVID-19 patients have been admitted to the hospital.

Other districts

The report for these other North Texas districts was taken by the Texas State Department of Health Services. In some districts, new data may not be reported every day.

Recent numbers:

• Rockwall County: 3,888 confirmed cases, 42 deaths.
• Kaufman County: 6,136 confirmed cases, 97 deaths.
• Ellis County: 8,643 confirmed cases, 138 deaths.
• Johnson County: 7,210 confirmed cases, 127 deaths.

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