Dallas County reported a three-day total of 6,144 new coronavirus cases and 11 deaths from Thursday through Saturday, according to the county’s health department. Jenkins said if the county stays on its current trajectory, it will see an average of 2,700 cases per day by Jan. 5.
As of Monday morning, Jenkins said there were 44 hospital beds between Dallas and Tarrant counties, which together count nearly 5 million residents. Should the region’s hospitals become overwhelmed in the coming weeks, there could soon be a rationing of hospital admissions.
“It’s not just COVID it’s the heart attack and the car wreck and the pregnancy complications,” Jenkins said. “You don’t want a situation where your loved one or you are getting less care than is appropriate because emergency dictates that we can’t do for you what we normally would.”
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