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COVID-19 hospitalizations have been a major public health concern during the pandemic due to overcrowding and the strain on hospital resources (French et al., 2021). In Texas, the number of patients with COVID-19 in Texas hospitals peaked at 14,218 on Janu ary 11, 2021, and the
6 days ago · Rt is a data-driven measure of disease transmission. Rt is an estimate on date t of the average number of new infections caused by each infectious person. Rt accounts for current population susceptibility, public health interventions, and behavior. Rt > 1 indicates that infections are growing because, on average, each infected person is causing ...
Dec 16, 2022 · COVID-19. IHME's COVID-19 projections were developed in response to requests from the University of Washington School of Medicine and other US hospital systems and state governments working to determine when COVID-19 would overwhelm their ability to care for patients. The forecasts show demand for hospital services, daily and cumulative deaths ...
Sep 4, 2023 · North Texas hospitals and emergency rooms are seeing more COVID-19 infections, along with respiratory illnesses like the flu and RSV. FOX 4's Shannon Murray shares a warning from doctors. The ...
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Shuford said “the case counts are increasing at an astonishing rate.” UT-Southwestern estimates there will be more than 1,500 new COVID-19 infections per day by mid-August. “We are about 90% more cases this week than we were even last week, and almost 10 times as high as we were just a month ago,” Shuford said. Hospitalizations are also increasing....
A big reason is new variants of coronavirus, like delta, that are more easy to transmit. Another factor is the number of people who are unvaccinated. In Dallas this week, Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Phillip Huang said around 90% of people hospitalized have been unvaccinated. “That is the primary thing that we need to not lose t...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the first case of delta variant in the United States in March. Since then, it’s become the dominant coronavirus strain in both Texas and the U.S. as a whole. “Viruses mutate,” Shuford said. “That’s just what they do. If they have a mutation that somehow makes them a little more aggressiv...
While kids 12 and older are approved to get the Pfizer vaccine, and trials are underway for kids under 12, that still leave a lot of kids unvaccinated. “It's something that we're also concerned about,” Shuford said. “Anytime that we gather people together in a setting where a lot of them aren't vaccinated, there's chances for outbreaks. It's not ju...
Shuford said this third pandemic wave is a little different than the first two, mostly because of the availability of vaccines, but the same prevention steps still apply. “Physically distancing from people who are outside of your household, wearing masks when you're around people who are outside of your household, making sure that you wash your han...
Jan 4, 2022 · In North Texas it's estimated around 85% to 90% of those in the hospital with COVID-19 are unvaccinated. Health officials are stressing the importance of vaccines and boosters if you qualify. They ...
Apr 14, 2020 · From April 2020 to August 2022, the Texas Tribune used data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track coronavirus hospitalizations, vaccinations, cases and deaths. The state data came from vaccine providers, city and county health departments, hospitals and laboratories. We stopped updating these numbers in August 2022.
