Dallas County reported 80 new cases and 7 deaths. The Dallas County death toll is now 50. New cases this week are averaging lower than last week, but number of deaths has increased. The seven who died were in their 60s-80s. Three were residents of long-term care facilities.
Tarrant County reported four new deaths including two men in their 40s with underlying health conditions. That brings Tarrant County deaths to 34.
LGBT CHAMBER HOSTING WEBINAR ON ANXIETY C AUSED BY COVID-19
The North Texas LGBT Chamber of Commerce is hosting a webinar on Friday, April 17, from 1-2 p.m., during which John Dornheim of National Alliance on Mental Illness North Texas will talk about coping with the stress and anxiety brought on by COVID-19. Attendees will learn how to identify symptoms of anxiety and be given advice and tools to alleviate stress and anxiety.
Register required in order to get the link and password to join the webinar.
For information email Lisa Howe at lisa.howe@lgbtchamber.com. Admission is free to chamber members and registered guests.
COVID-19 DEATH RATE VARIES AROUND U.S.
Texas is doing much better than some other places in the U.S.
The death rate from COVID-19 varies around the country. Not only does New York have the highest number of cases — almost a third of U.S. cases have been reported in New York — but it also has the highest death rate per million population.
As of yesterday, there are 622,923 cases around the country with 27,539 deaths or 83 deaths per million population.
In New York, 203,123 cases have been reported with 11,586 deaths or 591 deaths per million.
In Texas, 15,492 total cases have been reported with 364 deaths or 13 deaths per million, the 13th lowest rate in the U.S.
Just next door in Louisiana, 1,103 people have died at a rate of 237 people per million, the third highest rate in the country after New York and New Jersey.
Part of the difference may be in total tests administered. In total tests per million population, Texas ranks third from the bottom. Only Kansas and Virginia have a lower testing rate. Fourth worst is California. Louisiana has the highest rate of testing followed by New York.
LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES
Texas has had 1.1 million jobless claims.
In Dallas County, 70,184 have filed for unemployment.
In Tarrant County, 60,655 unemployment claims have been received.
The number is highest in Houston where 127,884 claims were filed in Harris County.
WEDNESDAY’S STATS IN NORTH TEXAS
After a day when the death toll in Dallas County spiked to 10 deaths reported on Tuesday, only one new death was reported Wednesday. The Garland woman who died was in her 80s but had no other underlying medical conditions.
Dallas County reports 109 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total case count in Dallas County to 1,986 with 43 total deaths to date.
Tarrant County reports four new deaths bringing the total to 29 confirmed deaths. All of yesterday’s fatalities were in their 70s and 80s and all had underlying health conditions.
Collin County has had 10 deaths out of 477 confirmed cases.
CORONAVIRUS BY THE NUMBERS
Texas has had 14,877 confirmed cases of Coronavirus infections. Of those, 3,841 have been in North Texas. The Houston area reports the most cases.
Texas has experienced a total of 338 fatalities from the virus. Of those, 95 have been in North Texas and 42 of those were Dallas County residents. To compare, New York State has reported as many as 800 fatalities in a single day.
Worldwide, 1,970,879 cases of coronavirus have been reported with 125,678 deaths as of yesterday’s reporting.
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
The Texas National Guard will help the North Texas Food Bank will distribute bags of food at Fair Park on Thursday morning, April 16. They ask people to start lining up in their cars at Gate 5 at 8 a.m. Gates should open around 8:15 a.m. and distribution continues from 9 a.m.-noon. or until the 4,000 packages are gone.
Gate 5 is at Grand Avenue and Robert B. Cullum, between the African American Museum of Dallas and the old Science Museum.
DALLAS COUNTY CONFIRMS DEATH TOLL
Dallas County confirmed 10 people died of COVID-19 on Monday. That’s the highest number of deaths in Dallas County from the coronavirus to date. Five of the people who died were in a long-term care facility. Of the others, two were in their 50s, two in their 80s and one in his 30s.
89 new cases were confirmed bringing the total in Dallas County to 1,877 confirmed cases with 42 deaths.
MONDAY STATS
Dallas County usually reports its daily new cases and deaths for the previous day at 10 a.m. As of 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14, the report has not been released, although the Dallas Morning News is reporting that the county will report at least 10 deaths occurred on Monday in Dallas County. Until now, Dallas has been reporting one or two deaths a day. Total cases reported through Monday was 1,788 with 32 deaths.
Tarrant County reported 70 new cases this morning bringing that county’s total to 876. Of those, there have been a total of 25 deaths and 103 people have recovered. (Dallas County doesn’t report recoveries.) While 19 percent of Tarrant County cases have been in people ages 65 and older, 52 percent of the deaths are among that age group.
Mayor Eric Johnson released figures on available hospital space in the city of Dallas as of Tuesday morning. In 25 hospitals across the city, there are 5,771 bed with 2,888 or half of them occupied. Dallas has 854 ICU beds with 485 beds or 57 percent of them occupied. Of 931 ventilators in the city, 290 of them, or less than a third, are in use.
— David Taffet
