County Judge Clay Jenkins urges residents not to overreact to the
latest numbers.
By Tom
Steele 4:59 PM on Sep 1, 2020
Dallas County officials reported 19 more deaths from the
coronavirus Tuesday, as well as 622 additional cases of the illness.
Although the number of new cases was the most the county has
seen in several weeks, County Judge Clay Jenkins said residents shouldn’t read
too much into one day’s data, especially because many of the cases — 461 — came
from the state’s backlogged reporting system.
Of those 461 cases, 294 were from August, 51 from July, 14
from June and 101 from May. One more case was from February, before North Texas
had any confirmed cases of the virus, and officials conceded that the date may
be a
Jenkins noted that the cases from the state’s reporting
system may have been logged in a batch, much like how thousands of cases were
reported in just a few days in mid-August. He said it will be several days
before officials determine whether new cases are actually on the rise.
The latest victims of COVID-19 include 12 Dallas residents:
a man in his 40s, a man in his 50s, two men in their 60s, three men and two
women in their 70s, a man and a woman in their 80s and a woman in her 90s. One
of the men in his 70s and the woman in her 90s lived at long-term care
facilities.
Also among the victims were six Garland residents — two men
and a woman in their 60s and a man and two women in their 70s — and a Mesquite
woman in her 60s. One of the Garland women in her 70s lived at a long-term care
facility.
Dallas County has recorded 72,252 confirmed cases, including
920 deaths. The county does not report a number of recoveries. Separately, the
county has reported 3,016 probable cases and nine probable deaths.
Across the state, 4,116 more cases were reported Tuesday,
along with 145 deaths from the virus. Texas has reported 617,333 confirmed
cases and 12,681 fatalities.
Texas hospitals have 4,144 coronavirus patients, with 845 of
them in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The state’s seven-day average of testing
positivity dipped to 10.1% on Tuesday, just above the 10% threshold that Gov.
Greg Abbott has said is cause for concern.
In Dallas County, 380 patients are hospitalized with
COVID-19, and 337 emergency room visits Monday — about 17% of all visits — were
for symptoms of the disease. Local health officials have focused on
hospitalizations, ER visits and ICU admissions as key indicators of the virus’s
spread.
Dallas County’s two major drive-through test sites, at Ellis
Davis Field House in Red Bird and Dallas College Eastfield Campus in Mesquite,
will be closed Wednesday because inclement weather is in the forecast. Walk-up
locations, at the Salvation Army’s Pleasant Grove community center on Elam Road
and the Goodwill on North Westmoreland Road in West Dallas, also will be
closed.
A less-invasive oral swab test is now available at Good
Street Baptist Church, 3110 Bonnie View Road in east Oak Cliff. Up to 600
people a day can be tested from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday;
preregistration is available at texas.curativeinc.com.
Tarrant County
Four more COVID-19 deaths were reported in Tarrant County on
Tuesday, raising the county’s toll to 556. The county also added 243
coronavirus cases.
The victims were three Arlington residents — a man in his
40s, a woman in her 70s and a woman in her 80s — and a Lake Worth woman in her
80s.
The county has recorded 41,860 cases, of which 39,488 are
confirmed and 2,372 are probable.
According to county data, 246 patients remain hospitalized
with COVID-19, and 36,159 have recovered from it.
Collin County
Sixty-five new coronavirus cases and two additional deaths
were reported Tuesday in Collin County.
No information about the victims was available.
The county has recorded a total of 11,054 confirmed COVID-19
cases, with 114 deaths and 10,432 recoveries. Ninety-eight patients remain
hospitalized.
A notice on the county’s online coronavirus dashboard says
local officials continue to lack confidence in the data being provided to them
by the Department of State Health Services.
Denton County
A man older than 80 who lived at a long-term care facility
in Carrollton was Denton County’s 101st victim of COVID-19, county officials
said Tuesday.
The county also reported 114 more coronavirus cases, raising
its total to 10,239.
There have been 8,241 Denton County residents who have
recovered from the virus while 39 patients remain hospitalized, according to
the county’s data.
Other counties
The Texas Department of State Health Services has taken over
reporting for many North Texas counties, and some may not report updates each
day.
The latest numbers are:
·
Rockwall
County: 1,360 cases, 21 deaths
·
Kaufman
County: 2,817 cases, 38 deaths
·
Ellis
County: 3,801 cases, 56 deaths
·
Johnson
County: 2,533 cases, 45 deaths
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