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Related: About this forumThe COVID positivity rate in TX is at an all-time high of 21.3%
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The COVID positivity rate in TX is at an all-time high of 21.3% (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Dec 2021
OP
Wow! And I thought Connecticut was horrific with 10.7%. (now 14.98%-quite a 1-day jump.)
femmedem
Dec 2021
#3
Houston-area COVID hospitalizations top 1,000 for first time in over 2 months
LetMyPeopleVote
Dec 2021
#5
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)1. Way to go, Gregg Abbott.
#1 in the Nation for highest infection rate.
Proud now?
LoisB
(7,206 posts)2. Freedumb!
femmedem
(8,203 posts)3. Wow! And I thought Connecticut was horrific with 10.7%. (now 14.98%-quite a 1-day jump.)
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)4. Holy ..... Over 1 in 5? nt
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,321 posts)5. Houston-area COVID hospitalizations top 1,000 for first time in over 2 months
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After months of steady declines in the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Houston area, the state now reports that 1,054 people were being treated in Houston-area facilities on Sunday.
This marks the first time Houston's hospitals have treated more than 1,000 people since Oct. 15, as the delta wave tapered off. On that day, there were 1,100 people hospitalized for COVID; it dropped to 938 the following day.
The recent increase in hospitalizations is dramatic: The previous Sunday, DSHS reported that 597 people were hospitalized for COVID in the Houston area, a week-over-week increase of 77 percent. The surge corresponds with the rapid spread of the highly-transmissible omicron variant, which first appeared in South Africa in late November, and has swelled to account for more than 90 percent of local cases in recent weeks.
Houston's hospitalizations are still well below their delta peak, which reached 3,500 on Aug. 24. But less than a week after Houston logged its 300,000th case of COVID, data from the Texas Medical Center shows that local transmission is increasing at a steady rate.
This marks the first time Houston's hospitals have treated more than 1,000 people since Oct. 15, as the delta wave tapered off. On that day, there were 1,100 people hospitalized for COVID; it dropped to 938 the following day.
The recent increase in hospitalizations is dramatic: The previous Sunday, DSHS reported that 597 people were hospitalized for COVID in the Houston area, a week-over-week increase of 77 percent. The surge corresponds with the rapid spread of the highly-transmissible omicron variant, which first appeared in South Africa in late November, and has swelled to account for more than 90 percent of local cases in recent weeks.
Houston's hospitalizations are still well below their delta peak, which reached 3,500 on Aug. 24. But less than a week after Houston logged its 300,000th case of COVID, data from the Texas Medical Center shows that local transmission is increasing at a steady rate.
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Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)7. Let's go Abbott
Javaman
(62,530 posts)8. about 3 weeks ago...
I was contemplating going back in the office to work on a part time basis.
no fucking way now.