The hospitalization rate for COVID-19 in Trauma Service Area L â which includes Bell County â surged over the weekend into Monday despite a slight decrease Friday.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reported the percentage of hospital beds taken up by COVID-19 patients in the service area was 18.52. This is a 3.35 percent increase over what was reported Sunday, and a 5 percent increase over Fridayâs numbers.
The service area remains the region with the second highest rate in the state after Trauma Service Area R in the Galveston area.
As hospitalizations go up, the Bell County Public Health District reported Monday that the countyâs active cases also rose over the weekend by 134 to now 1,099 cases.
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Bell County Public Health District officials raised the COVID-19 threat level Tuesday from moderate Level 3 to significant Level 2 due to âa higher incidence rate and hospitalizations,â according to a news release.
Trauma Service Area L â which includes Bell County â saw the highest percentages of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas for the sixth straight day Tuesday, according to FME News Service.
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The Texas State Teachers Association, a branch of the National Education Association, issued a news release Tuesday urging Gov. Abbott to retract his âprohibition on mask mandates.â
Bell County continued to see a steady rise in hospitalizations related to COVID-19 Wednesday as cases continued to spike.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reported that Trauma Service Area L â which Bell County accounts for a large portion of â was now the region with the second-highest COVID-19 hospitalization rate in the state. The service area now has 13.58 percent of hospital beds filled with coronavirus patients, just under TSA R in East Texas with 13.61 percent.
The county previously had the highest percentage of hospitalizations due to the virus for the previous six days.
The Bell County Public Health District also reported a rise in active cases, which increased by 52 new infections since Tuesday to 845. While cases continued to rise deaths did not, staying at 471.
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In Bell County, we are seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Since the beginning of July, the number of COVID-19 cases in Bell County has skyrocketed. Before July, we were seeing less than 10 to 20 new cases a day, and now weâre seeing over a hundred new cases come in each day,â said Nikki Morrow, Interim Director, Bell County Public Health District.
As cases rise fast so do the number of hospitalizations, and this time that trend is hitting soon-to-be moms at an alarming rate. We are seeing an increase in our hospitalized pregnant patients with COVID. It seems like this delta variant is hitting our pregnant moms harder than COVID has earlier in this pandemic,â said Dr. Jessica Ehrig, maternal medicine and maternal transport director at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Temple.