The Tarrant County Department of Public Health says the county’s medicines have a capacity of 97 percent on Wednesday, adding 3,410 new cases of COVID-19, along with 12 more deaths.
According to the TCPH COVID-19 dashboard, there were 1,489 COVID-19 patients in county hospitals as of Tuesday, 73 more than on Monday. Patients with COVID-19 represent 29% of all patients in the county hospital and 25.4% of all patients in the hospital with ASD-E. The total bed occupancy rate for all hospital beds in the county is now 87%, down 3% from Tuesday. The capacity for intensive care for adults in Tarrant County has decreased to 97% according to the TCPH COVID-19 dashboard.
Although the capacity of hospitals is close to 100%, officials stressed last week that they have plans to increase capacity, if necessary.
“Hospitals have plans to increase the pandemic. Let me not scare people, because they don’t know or don’t have the capacity. Yes, but do you really want to extend that capacity? We already know that we are weak in terms of staff,” he said. on Tuesday the director of public health of Tarrant county, Vinnu Taneja. “The staff has been working in the hospital for almost 10 months to deal with a lot of COVID and diseases. They are tired. Some of them had COVID, the family with COVID, some of them died. So do you really want to stretch that capacity? “
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In the last seven days, the county has announced 18,400 new and probable cases of virus or an average of 2,628 per day. Data from the county health department indicated that there were 2,777 more confirmed cases than the most recent report and 633 more likely cases. So far, the county has reported 144,103 confirmed cases of the virus and 21,185 probable cases for a total of 165,288 cases.
The county also reports another 1,799 estimated recoveries, bringing the total number of survivors to 118,933. Currently, there are an estimated 44,794 active cases in the county, most of all counties in North Texas.
The latest victims included a man from Arlington in the 90s, a man from Euless in the 90s, a woman from Fort Worth in the 90s, a woman from Hurst in the 90s, a woman from Tarrant County unincorporated in the 90s, a woman from North Richland Hills in the 1980s, a woman from Arlington in the 1980s, a man from Bedford in the 1980s, a man from Mansfield in the 1980s, two women from Fort Worth in the 1980s and a man from Arlington in the 1960s. underlying health conditions.
TCPH now reports 1,561 deaths attributed to the March 2020 virus.
County officials also said Wednesday that 9,390 vaccines were distributed in the county.
Tarrant County, which extended its mask mandate until February 28, 2021, began reporting both probable and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in August 2020, at the request of the state health department. The probable cases, the county said, represent a variety of real-world situations and could highlight cases in the community that might otherwise go unreported.
COVID-19 causes a respiratory illness with cough, fever and difficulty breathing and can lead to bronchitis, severe pneumonia or even death. For more information, visit coronavirus.tarrantcounty.com or call the Tarrant County Public Health Information Line, 817-248-6299, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.