in houston. the houston health department says it administered more than 45,000 covid-19 tests in the first week of january, that s eight times the amount in the same period in november. so a lot more people are testing, certainly finding a lot more infections, the big question is, how are the hospitals handling this? reporter: that s a big question. and there s a big concern. harris county judge calling it a tsunami of cases, so much so, increasing the covid-19 threat level to red, which is the highest. officials here take a look at several factors including the hospitalization rate. the 14-day average covid-19 icu population is at 18.1% here in harris county, and the goal is 5%. they also look at the positivity rate, according to harris county government, it s at 36.5%. that s why she is asking people to pay attention, the third time that she has had to raise the
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florida also still just about 49% of the population here is fully vaccinated. so still a ways to go. there s also a lot of concern about schools reopening and what is happening to children under 12 who are not yet eligible for the vaccine. if you look at the numbers there, cases among that age group under 12 nearly 11,000 children in the last week or so testing positive under 12 years old for covid. the positivity rate for that age group now is 18.1%. the statewide positivity rate is 18.2%. the governor said you cannot mandate masks in the classroom when the students return. he issued an executive order saying that you cannot do that. he wants it to be up to the parents. he wants the parents to have the choice whether or not they want to mask their children. he said any district who defies his executive order could risk losing funding, could possibly become ineligible for grants.
pandemic began with 21,683 new cases saturday. if you look how florida is contributing to the number of cases around the country. 19.2% of all new covid cases reported in the u.s. are right here in florida. mainly south florida, also, we are experiencing similar numbers to what we saw back in january, really, at the height of the pandemic. florida also still just about 49% of the population here is fully vaccinated. so, is still aways to go. there s a lot of concern about schools reopening and what is happening to children under 12 who are not yet eligible for the vaccine. if you look at the numbers there. cases among that age group under 12, nearly 11,000 children in the last week or so testing positive under 12 years old for covid, the positivity rate for that age group is 18.1%. the statewide positivity rate is 18.2% and the governor here said that you cannot mandate masks in
right now 19.2% of all covid cases across the country are here in the state of florida. right now what we don t know in this peak will hit the max. we expect the number of people needing acute and critical care for covid to continue to increase in the upcoming days. reporter: and florida right now is seeing the highest average cases since january. still only about 49% of floridians are fully vaccinated. so we do have a ways to go. schools are about to reopen. kids are going back to the classroom. there s a lot of concern about the children. on average nearly 11,000 new covid cases among children younger than 12 years old in the last week or so. we know they re not eligible yet for the vaccine. that age group is also seeing a positivity rate of 18.1%. as they go back to school, the governor desantis said they won t be able to mandate masks in the classrooms here. he issued an executive order
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