Cases of COVID-19 continued to rise in Bell County Tuesday following the report of one new death from the coronavirus.
Deaths from coronavirus have now reached 470, according to the Bell County Public Health Districtâs online dashboard. The site also showed the number of active cases broke past 512.
Incidence rates of cases also reached 141.9 cases per 100,000 Tuesday â the highest the county has seen since early March.
Rising infections are mainly being attributed to the unvaccinated by local hospitals and health care providers.
âOf note, the majority of the patients we are treating for COVID-19 infections are under the age of 50 and not vaccinated,â Deke Jones, spokesman for Baylor Scott & White, said. âWe urge unvaccinated community members to get vaccinated, as data proves it prevents serious illness and hospitalizations.â
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The Bell County Public Health District announced another large increase of local COVID-19 cases Friday.
The districtâs online dashboard showed 421 active cases of the virus â an increase of 87 over yesterdayâs totals. The county did not see any new deaths related to the virus, staying at 469.
The incidence rate in the county has now risen to 116 cases per 100,000 people, a rate not seen in the county since the middle of March.
Total reported cases in the county now amount to 23,379, with 22,489 people having recovered from the virus so far.
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BELL COUNTY, Texas Bell County s COVID-19 threat level is now at Level 3 following an uptick in average cases being reported this month, according to the Bell County Public Health District (BCPHD).
Level 3 indicates that there is moderate, controlled transmission, BCPHD reports.
“We saw a slight increase, which seemed to be related to an isolated event upon investigation,” Interim Health District Director Nikki Morrow said in a news release Friday. “However, the number of new cases coming in each day closer to the end of the week showed a continuous increase.”
As educators throughout Texas prepare for the upcoming school year in a post-pandemic setting, administrators are devising plans to address learning losses spurred by remote instruction â losses that the Texas Education Agency said were clearly evident in studentsâ 2021 standardized testing results.
In late June, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath had revealed that in-person learnersâ 2021 testing results during the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams this past spring were âappreciably higherâ than their peers enrolled under remote instruction.
TEA officials observed four key changes: the number of students not meeting grade level expectations increased from 2019, mathematics saw the sharpest decline in student proficiency, districts with higher percentages of virtual learners experienced greater declines and districts with higher percentages of in-person learners avoided most declines.
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