UTSW predicts COVID-19 numbers like worst periods of pandemic if latest trends continue
UTSW predicts COVID-19 numbers like worst periods of pandemic if latest trends continue
With August looking bad and October even worse, the public is at “an important crossroads,” infectious-disease expert says.
8:39 PM on Jul 21, 2021 CDT
By October, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in North Texas could return to levels not seen since January and last summer, according to the latest forecasting model from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
That’s especially true if vaccination rates remain slow and the public doesn’t step up use of masks and social distancing, experts say.
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UTSW predicts COVID-19 numbers like worst periods of pandemic if latest trends continue
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The number of patients battling COVID-19 in Tarrant County hospitals makes up more than a third of all COVID-19 patients in Trauma Service Area E, according to new data.
According to the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, there are 911 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in TSA E as of Tuesday. 321 patients are in Tarrant County’s hospitals, according to DFW Hospital Council CEO Stephen Love.
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“As a point of reference, we had 287 COVID-19 patients in the hospitals on June 20 so as you can tell, our hospitalizations have increased significantly in 30 days,” Love wrote in an email. “Vaccinations are absolutely helping protect people and the unvaccinated are very much at risk with the increase in the Delta variant.”
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