Herald Democrat
Grayson County s COVID-19 related death total increased by five on Wednesday to 294. Reports from the GC Health Department and Office of Emergency Management also reported 39 newly confirmed cases of the illness in the county and an active case count of 286.
Because of the way the state releases information about COVID-19 deaths, the Herald Democrat can not say when those five people died or offer any other biographical or statistical information about them.
Grayson County, however, has been keeping and releasing statistics about who has had the virus in the county and about where those people live.
As it has been since the beginning of the pandemic, the highest number of active cases remained in Sherman and Denison on Wednesday with Sherman reporting 88 cases and Denison 87. Whitesboro reported 31 cases and Pottsboro had 15. Howe reported 13 cases and Bells had 12. Van Alstyne had ten cases and Gunter had eight. Collinsville and Whitewright each had six case
By Jerrie Whiteley
Herald Democrat
Grayson County reported 39 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday which made the total number of active cases confirmed in the county 302.
So far, since the pandemic began, 10,066 people in the county have had confirmed cases of the virus. Of those 285 have died and 9,479 recovered. Statistics provided by the Grayson County Health Department and Office of Emergency Management show that 80,417 tests have been administered for the virus in the county.
On Thursday, the local hospital occupancy rate was 88.17 percent and the percentage of those cases with COVD-19 was 10.22 percent as of Wednesday. The local ICU occupancy rate was 93.24 percent on Thursday and 15.94 percent of those cases were COVID-19 related.