Tarrant County passes 1,000,000 administered vaccines
Tarrant County Public Health said as of Wednesday, 1,047,122 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in Tarrant County.
Health officials also said there are currently 159 people hospitalized with COVID-19. There were 165 the previous day.
This is the 27th consecutive day the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has been below 200.
The COVID-19 patients make up 3% of the total hospital bed capacity. The county currently has a 14-day average of 152 hospitalizations.
Health officials reported 148 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. There have been 255,063 total cases in the county since tracking began in March 2020.
Health officials also reported one new COVID-19 death. It was a Southlake man in his 60s with underlying conditions.
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Researchers at Texas A&M University have detected a new variant of COVID-19 in one student in College Station. Erica Tam, medical technologist in the molecular microbiology lab, adds the RNA extracted from patient samples collected at the hospital to the test she is running to detect COVID-19 using reagents from a CDC provided test kit, Thursday, March 12, 2020, at Texas Children s Hospital in Houston.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
College Station is best known as the home of Texas A&M University, but as of this month, researchers have confirmed it’s now the birthplace of a new COVID-19 strain.