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"It spreads more easily and that means people have to be more careful about masking or we have to achieve higher levels of vaccination to protect against it," said Dr. James Cutrell, an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He said the delta variant is about 50% more contagious than the alpha variant, which has been the dominant strain in the U.S. “There is a concern that moving forward in the future if there are certain geographic areas that significantly lag behind in terms of their vaccine uptake, those areas may be mor...

Health experts recommend getting vaccinated and explain new mask guidance as threat of Delta variant increases across North Texas UT Southwestern's COVID model projects an increase in cases and hospitalizations in the coming months without increase in vaccination pace or masking, distancing. Author: William Joy (WFAA) Updated: 11:45 PM CDT June 30, 2021 The World Health Organization is urging both the unvaccinated and vaccinated to keep wearing masks to prevent COVID outbreaks, and this week Los Angeles County health officials changed their policy to recommend ...

In Texas: More than 2.9 million cases and more than 52,200 deaths have been reported. Cases In North Texas: Tarrant County: 263,335; Dallas County: 262,710; Denton County: 76,975; Collin County: 75,928. There have been at least 9,148 reported deaths in the region's four largest counties. (Data as of June 28) Global: See Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 dashboard. Texas' Electricity Shut-off Moratorium Ends Today Private electricity companies can turn people's electricity off for past-due bills beginning today. State regulators lifted a moratorium on disconnections after months of pressur...

Dallas County reported two more COVID-19 deaths and 114 new coronavirus cases Thursday. The latest victims were a man in his 50s and a woman in her 90s,...

Dallas County reports 2 COVID-19 deaths, 139 more cases; Denton County adds 3 deaths Across Texas, 32 deaths from COVID-19 were reported Wednesday. Dallas County reported two more COVID-19 deaths and 139 new coronavirus cases Wednesday. The latest victims were a Dallas man in his 60s and a Duncanville man in his 50s. Both had underlying high-risk health conditions. The county reported four cases of “variants of concern,” all in people who were not vaccinated. There have been 148 variant cases in Dallas County as of Wednesday. Health officials are more worried about the increasing prevalen...