Tarrant County exceeds 100,000 coronavirus cases; Dallas County reports 702 cases, 5 deaths

Update at 5:15 p.m .: revised to include statewide data.

Dallas County reported 702 more cases of the coronavirus on Monday, all of which are considered new. Five new deaths from COVID-19 have also been reported.

The latest victims included a Dallas man in his 60s, a Richardson man in his 60s and a mean woman in her 80s, all of whom had underlying health issues. The other two victims, a Richardson man in his 70s and a Carrollton man in his 80s, had no underlying health issues. The five victims had been hospitalized.

But the data doesn’t show a full picture of the number of new cases, as many labs have not submitted test results since Wednesday due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a written statement. Jenkins said he was forecasting specific numbers on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Now is the time for sacrifice and patriotism to protect not only yourself, but your community and our country,” Jenkins said. “Our health heroes are working hard to make sure this is the one party we’ll ever have like this, and they need your help.”

Of the new cases reported on Monday, 684 are confirmed and 18 are probable. The newly reported cases bring the total number of confirmed cases in the county to 126,690 and probable cases to 12,108. The county has recorded 1,212 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and 34 probable deaths.

The county recently announced that it only counts positive antigen tests (sometimes called rapid tests) as probable cases; some results on antibodies and “households” have been included previously.

While other counties in North Texas provide estimates of how many people have recovered from the virus, Dallas County officials are not reporting recoveries, noting that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not use this metric.

The county reported that during the period of November 8-14, 1,282 school-aged children tested positive for COVID-19. As of Nov. 1, there have been 3,630 cases of COVID-19 among students and staff in Dallas County schools, and 130 cases have been reported in 97 separate daycares, the county said.

More than two-thirds of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization so far are in people under the age of 65, and diabetes is an underlying condition in about one-third of all hospitalized patients, according to the county.

The county’s provisional seven-day average of daily new confirmed and probable cases for the last reporting period, Nov. 8 to 14, was 1,405 – a rate of 53.3 new cases per day per 100,000 population. The figure is calculated based on when COVID-19 tests were collected, according to the county.

Dallas County does not provide positivity rates for all COVID-19 tests performed in the region; County health officials said they did not have an accurate tally of how many tests were done each day. But as of the county’s latest reporting period, 17% of people who presented to hospitals with symptoms of COVID-19 have tested positive for the virus. This is an increase from 16.8% in the previous reference period.

The county said 20 active “clusters” of cases in homeless shelters and group homes have been reported in the past 30 days, totaling 167 reported coronavirus cases. As of last week, one facility had 81 confirmed cases, the county said.

In the past 30 days, 818 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in 90 long-term care facilities, the county said. Of these cases, 29 people died and 48 were hospitalized.

Of the total number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the county, about 23% are associated with long-term care facilities.

State-wide data

Statewide, a further 10,714 cases and 22 deaths from COVID-19 were reported on Monday. Texas has reported 1,168,111 confirmed cases and 21,379 deaths.

According to the state scorecard, 10,699 cases are considered new and 139 are considered older cases.

There are 8,900 COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals, including 2,435 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Of all hospitalizations in the 19-county hospital region that covers the Dallas-Fort Worth area, 16.13% are COVID-19 patients, according to state data. Monday was the fourth day in a row the state has crossed the 15% threshold set by Governor Greg Abbott in an October 7 executive order. The order says companies must reduce capacity to 50% if they are in an area where more than 15% of hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients for seven consecutive days. The zone first hit the 15% threshold on Friday.

The statewide seven-day average positivity rate, based on the date the test samples were collected, was 11.34% on Sunday. State health officials have said that using data based on when people were tested provides the most accurate rate of positivity.

The condition also provides a positivity rate based on when the lab results were reported to the condition; that rate was 11.72% on Sunday.

Officials had previously calculated the coronavirus positivity rate in Texas by dividing the last seven days of new positive test results by the last seven days of the total of new test results. By this measure, the positivity rate is now 9.22%, according to the state’s scorecard.

A spokesperson for the Texas State Department Health Services said positivity rate data based on lab results and new cases will likely be eliminated, but are still provided for transparency and continuity. .

Tarrant County

Tarrant County reported 3,356 coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Monday.

The newly reported cases bring the county’s total to 100,650, including 89,224 confirmed cases, 11,426 probable cases and 71,114 recoveries. The death toll stands at 843.

Monday’s case report reflects data collected from Thursday to Sunday, the county dashboard said.

According to figures on Monday’s county scoreboard, 855 people are hospitalized with the virus.

Collin County

On Monday, the state added 408 coronavirus cases to Collin County’s total, bringing the total to 26,600. No new deaths from COVID-19 have been reported. The county’s death toll stands at 253.

According to state data, the county has 3,105 active cases of the virus and has recorded 23,495 recoveries.

COVID-19 hospitalizations total 276, according to the county dashboard.

Denton County

Denton County reported 368 cases of the coronavirus – of which 246 are active – and no new deaths on Monday.

The newly reported cases bring the county total to 23,644, with 5,617 ongoing and 17,879 in recovery. The death toll stands at 148.

There are 748 COVID-19 patients hospitalized, according to county data.

Other counties

The Texas Department of State Health Services resumed reporting for these other North Texas counties. In some countries, new data may not be communicated every day.

The latest numbers are:

• Rockwall County: 2,994 cases, 37 deaths.
• Kaufman County: 4,900 cases, 80 deaths.
• Ellis County: 6,898 cases, 115 deaths.
• Johnson County: 5,407 cases, 105 deaths.

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