Updated on December 23, 2020 at 4:55 pm
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Health officials in Dallas County on Wednesday reported a single-day high of new COVID-19 cases and 30 more deaths, making this week the county s deadliest on record after just four days.
The 30 fatalities reported Wednesday marked the fourth straight day on which Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 23 or more deaths, and brings the number of fatalities this week to 113.
The deaths reported Wednesday included:
A man in his 20s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. He died in a vacant residence.
A woman in her 40s who was a resident of the city of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high-risk health conditions.
Restaurants in Galveston, Brazoria Counties Must Yet Again Decrease Capacity as COVID-19 Cases Spike
Businesses in Gulf Coast counties face yet another rollback
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, according to KHOU. The latest closure affects counties in Trauma Service Area N: Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robertson and Washington. Restaurants in those counties will also have to reduce indoor capacity to 50 percent.
Restaurants in some parts of Houston must decrease indoor dining capacity to 50 percent effective immediately, and some bars must close all indoor service, as COVID-19 cases continue to spike following Thanksgiving.
A letter sent to several upper Gulf Coast county judges on the evening of December 21 indicated that restaurants and bars in Trauma Service Area R which includes Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, and Orange counties must roll back capacity after COVID-19 hospitalizations in that area rose
Last week, just as some of North Texas’ front-line healthcare workers got their first dose of relief via Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, their jobs got increasingly taxing. The number of hospital beds they’re tending are either filled to capacity or precariously close to it.
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New York Times tracking tool shows that ICU beds at City Hospital White Rock, Baylor University Medical Center, Methodist in Mansfield and Medical City Las Colinas are at 100% capacity. Methodist and Baylor in Iriving have one bed, Parkland and UT Southwestern have two beds each.
Children’s hospitals in both Dallas and Fort Worth are not at capacity.
COVID-19 Bulletin (12/21/20)
New cases were down a bit over the weekend, but there were 30 COVID-19 deaths on Sunday.
By Will Maddox
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Healthcare Business
December 20, 2020
9:33 pm
1,143 new cases on Sunday, along with 30 deaths.
The number of
average new cases, hospitalizations, and average new deaths have all increased since last week, as 9,800 people in Texas are hospitalized with COVID-19. The Texas Tribune has more.
On KERA, “Think” with Krys Boyd spoke with Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and senior fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations about
how to prepare for the next pandemic.
Watch the 11 a.m. news conference in the video player below
Published December 18, 2020 •
Updated on December 18, 2020 at 12:04 pm
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Dallas County leaders on Friday will address the record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, holiday safety and vaccine distribution.
The news conference was with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins and Dr. Philip Huang, Director of Dallas County Health and Human Services. Now is a time for small sacrifices to keep our community and country strong at this time of unprecedented high spread, Jenkins tweeted Thursday evening. Community-wide vaccinations are coming. Stay in the fight.
The news conference follows the county health department s Thursday report, which said there are more than 800 COVID-19 patients in county hospitals and warned that the hospital system could soon be exhausted.