This is from yesterday... Dallas hits 200-plus coronavirus cases for 7th straight day, Tarrant reports 139 cases Dallas Morning News Dallas County reported 239 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths Wednesday, a dip from Tuesday’s record numbers. There have been a total of 249 deaths in Dallas County, 20 of which were in the last two days. Dallas County has reported a total of 10,958 coronavirus cases. The number of Houston-area coronavirus cases is at 21,449 with 453 deaths, 8,211 recoveries KPRC-TV Houston Harris County has 5,217 cases, 107 deaths, and 3,240 recoveries. This number does not include cases reported in the city of Houston. Houston has 8,051 total cases, 134 deaths, and 1,975 recoveries. Travis County reports two new coronavirus deaths; known cases rise to 3,501 Austin American-Statesman Travis County officials on Wednesday reported two new coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the total number people who have died in connection to the virus to 95. Officials also confirmed 68 new cases. The number of known cases in the county is now 3,501.
But we want our haircuts... Dallas County records highest daily COVID-19 positive cases, on pace for deadliest week WFAA - Dallas/Fort Worth In Dallas County, there were 285 new positive cases of COVID-19 reported today. There have been 22 deaths since Sunday. That puts the county on pace the have its deadliest week. There was concern that when state rules were relaxed, there would be a surge in cases. 3 positive coronavirus cases confirmed at Texas lab KXAN-TV - Austin The Texas Department of State Health Services confirms three positive COVID-19 cases in the state lab. According to the DSHS website, the lab has been doing COVID-19 testing since April. Staff also test more than one million samples for infectious and food-borne diseases along with biological and chemical compounds every year. DHS to no longer use lab due to high number of COVID false positives Wichita Falls Times-Record News According to a statement from Texas HHS and DSHS, they detected an abnormally large number of COVID-19 positives from a single testing lab. This lab has run approximately 14,000 tests from nursing home facility and community sampling efforts. The state said they will no longer be using this lab until the issue can be resolved. HHSC will be reaching out to all facilities that tested through this lab and offer options for additional testing. How does the number of coronavirus cases in Texas compare to tests being performed? KPRC-TV Houston According to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, there have been more than 1.17 million tests performed in the state. More than 66,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the state. That works out to a positivity rate of about 5.6%.
Who the flip needs a face mask? Them looters aren't a maskin unless they're a stealin.... I'm no thief!
California is continuing its gradual reopening-- counties can now move into phase 3, which allows for reopening of gyms, schools and others if a county fits certain criteria. Governor Newson's justification is that case #s are under control, testing and tracing capabilities are more ready, and it looks like the state has the medical capacity to treat patients. Went to get a haircut today: no one waiting inside the salon, temperature check with result and customer phone # recorded on a notebook, masks for everyone, and huge jars of 70% alcohol for cleaning between clients. My stylist told me that they were allowed to open since Monday, and did so, but closed the last 2 days to get everything in order for the health department guidelines. The difference about closing and opening is much more stark in terms of rhetoric on social media than it is about policy at this point. Dem states are just taking a more cautious approach.
Very true. San francisco is moving rapidly into re-opening, and we had about the strongest lock-down in the country, I believe. People still wearing masks, being careful, but a lot of businesses are open again, with more on the way.
Well the US is nearing 2 million cases now and people act like it's over. Today Texas had over 2,000 new cases. Yeah, it worries me.
The virus has turned out to be a total dud. Roughly half the deaths have been in nursing homes. I don't even know that the lockdown was shown to reduce the spread at all. FAR more people than we thought had this, meaning the death rate was tiny. Look at the stock market - almost back to all time highs. Time to reopen! Protect the elderly, and those who have compromised immune systems, otherwise FREE THE PEOPLE!
So spread the virus to unimaginal highs and force all elderly and people with weakened immune systems to stay inside another year? It's a scary choice to fear getting the virus or risk infection going to a doctor, hospital, or dentist for needed care. You sound like an echo of Trump, Paxton, Cruz, and Abbott with the "stock market first" mentality.
The daily death rate has been dropping like a rock in the US. It's a clear trend. Look at the European countries, who had this a couple months before we did. You've got a couple tough months, then it peters out. It's happening here, just the same. Don't fall for the media's scare tactics. "Unimaginable highs"....lmao.
Your track record on speaking about Covid speaks for itself. Do I need to remind you when you said that Covid was overblown and largely confined to China? Moral of the story: don’t listen to bigtexxx as he is wrong
The lockdown was a horrible, medieval decision based on fear that unnecessarily sank the economy. Remember it’s purpose? To ensure sufficient hospital capacity? Aside from maybe a few days in NYC, we didn’t even come close to exceeding it, and in fact hospitals had to lay people off. It may not have even stopped the spread of the virus. There could have been far better solutions.
