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By Jerrie Whiteley
Herald Democrat
Grayson County reported 39 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday which made the total number of active cases confirmed in the county 302.
So far, since the pandemic began, 10,066 people in the county have had confirmed cases of the virus. Of those 285 have died and 9,479 recovered. Statistics provided by the Grayson County Health Department and Office of Emergency Management show that 80,417 tests have been administered for the virus in the county.
On Thursday, the local hospital occupancy rate was 88.17 percent and the percentage of those cases with COVD-19 was 10.22 percent as of Wednesday. The local ICU occupancy rate was 93.24 percent on Thursday and 15.94 percent of those cases were COVID-19 related.
By Jerrie Whiteley
Herald Democrat
After a few days of heading in the right direction, Grayson County s COVID-19 statistics took a slight turn on Tuesday.
A report released Tuesday by the Grayson County Health Department and the Office of Emergency Management said there were 136 new cases of the virus test confirmed. That is more than the county reported for all three days of the last weekend. On Tuesday the active case count was 394 which was up from 3139 on the day before.
On the bright side, the number of local people in a local ICU bed with COVID-19 dropped on Tuesday. It has been 35.62 percent and it was 28 percent on Tuesday. The total ICU occupancy was 97.50 percent on Monday and 87.40 percent on Tuesday. The total hospital occupancy on Monday was 89.36 percent on Monday and 92.09 on Tuesday. The percentage of that number with COVID-19 was 13.15 percent on Monday and 13.54 percent on Tuesday.