North Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations back to February levels as Delta variant spreads
North Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations back to February levels as Delta variant spreads
Hospital bed occupancy for the region is back up to levels last seen in February as doctors say the Delta variant is spreading among unvaccinated groups.
DALLAS - Both Dallas and Tarrant county commissioners addressed the growing number of hospital cases from COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Hospital bed occupancy for the region is back up to levels last seen in February as doctors say the Delta variant is spreading among unvaccinated groups.
North Texas hospitals have 1,886 COVID-19 patients currently and nearly all of them are unvaccinated, officials say. For context, on July 8 the entire state of Texas had 1,888 COVID-19 patients.
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When COVID-19 vaccines first became available, Dr. Barbara Chapman said there was a sense of hope in the medical community after being on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic for months.
That hope, according to Dr. Chapman, has recently turned to a familiar overwhelming feeling with a recent spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations following months of clinics. Chapman is a family nurse practitioner serving McKinney and east Texas. Their clinic in McKinney is able to refer patients with symptoms to hospitals, if needed.
“We were hopeful we’d gotten on top of this, and there was an end in sight. So, to see this resurgence is disheartening,” Chapman said Tuesday. “The mental health care component of this is really affecting nurses all over the country, especially my colleagues here in the Dallas area.”
Vinny Taneja, director de salud del condado Tarrant, dice que un tercio de los hospitalizados se encuentran en este condado a comparación del condado Collin donde se registran 138 personas hospitalizadas y el condado Denton con 50 personas.
Love dice que los datos muestran que la mayoría de los hospitalizados no están vacunados mientras que Taneja explica que han comenzado a ver el aumento de casos por COVID-19 en el condado Tarrant, la cual es una tendencia que desafortunadamente se está registrando en todo el país.
La Casa Blanca informó el jueves que el 40% de todos los casos positivos de COVID-19 son de los estados de Florida, Missouri y Texas.
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Tarrant County health leaders have been working with the Texas Department of State Health Services to correct discrepancies in COVID-19 vaccination data, county officials say.
According to state data, more than 49% of the eligible population in Tarrant County are fully vaccinated while 56% have gotten at least one dose. For several weeks, Tarrant County’s dashboard showed 30% of county residents were fully vaccinated while 33% had at least one dose.
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The number of patients battling COVID-19 in Tarrant County hospitals makes up more than a third of all COVID-19 patients in Trauma Service Area E, according to new data.
According to the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council, there are 911 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in TSA E as of Tuesday. 321 patients are in Tarrant County’s hospitals, according to DFW Hospital Council CEO Stephen Love.
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“As a point of reference, we had 287 COVID-19 patients in the hospitals on June 20 so as you can tell, our hospitalizations have increased significantly in 30 days,” Love wrote in an email. “Vaccinations are absolutely helping protect people and the unvaccinated are very much at risk with the increase in the Delta variant.”