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Here's a COVID dashboard for Texas only.

One of the pages has Trauma Service Area (TSA) Hospital Data. We are all in TSA E. TSA E has 7.8 million people within it. The number of active COVID patients in TSA E is 611.

611 active COVID patients in North Central Texas.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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Hood said:

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Hood said:

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Here's a COVID dashboard for Texas only.

One of the pages has Trauma Service Area (TSA) Hospital Data. We are all in TSA E. TSA E has 7.8 million people within it. The number of active COVID patients in TSA E is 611.

611 active COVID patients in North Central Texas.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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The next two weeks will be important to track.

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agcrock2005 said:

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Hood said:

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Hood said:

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Here's a COVID dashboard for Texas only.

One of the pages has Trauma Service Area (TSA) Hospital Data. We are all in TSA E. TSA E has 7.8 million people within it. The number of active COVID patients in TSA E is 611.

611 active COVID patients in North Central Texas.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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The next two weeks will be important to track.

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Why? I feel like I've been hearing this for two months now. This virus is still killing old people (75% of fatalities are older than 65 according to site you linked) and most likely the amount of positive cases in DFW is astronomical because we never really sheltered-in-place in the first place and we're just now starting to test lots of people. Home Depot/Lowes and grocery stores have been absolutely packed for the last two months. Positive cases are going to boom because of testing.

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nai06 said:

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agcrock2005 said:

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Hood said:

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Hood said:

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Here's a COVID dashboard for Texas only.

One of the pages has Trauma Service Area (TSA) Hospital Data. We are all in TSA E. TSA E has 7.8 million people within it. The number of active COVID patients in TSA E is 611.

611 active COVID patients in North Central Texas.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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The next two weeks will be important to track.

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Why? I feel like I've been hearing this for two months now. This virus is still killing old people (75% of fatalities are older than 65 according to site you linked) and most likely the amount of positive cases in DFW is astronomical because we never really sheltered-in-place in the first place and we're just now starting to test lots of people. Home Depot/Lowes and grocery stores have been absolutely packed for the last two months. Positive cases are going to boom because of testing.

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Because restrictions are being lifted. If there is a huge spike in hospitalizations then maybe the reopen was premature. I think it really depends on how seriously people take the gradual reopen.

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agcrock2005 said:

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nai06 said:

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agcrock2005 said:

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Hood said:

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Hood said:

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Here's a COVID dashboard for Texas only.

One of the pages has Trauma Service Area (TSA) Hospital Data. We are all in TSA E. TSA E has 7.8 million people within it. The number of active COVID patients in TSA E is 611.

611 active COVID patients in North Central Texas.

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83

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The next two weeks will be important to track.

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Why? I feel like I've been hearing this for two months now. This virus is still killing old people (75% of fatalities are older than 65 according to site you linked) and most likely the amount of positive cases in DFW is astronomical because we never really sheltered-in-place in the first place and we're just now starting to test lots of people. Home Depot/Lowes and grocery stores have been absolutely packed for the last two months. Positive cases are going to boom because of testing.

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Because restrictions are being lifted. If there is a huge spike in hospitalizations then maybe the reopen was premature. I think it really depends on how seriously people take the gradual reopen.

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I agree that with keeping an eye on hospitalizations is good idea. I think the gradual reopening thing is going to be a joke just like the stay-at-home stuff that nobody has been paying attention to. So many people have been out and about throughout this that I think there won't be much change in near future with regards to hospital occupancy. Hopefully old/vulnerable people will take it seriously still and we will be fine. My theory FWIW (not much!).

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Old Buffalo said:

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So if asymptomatic cases are undercounted, then the CFR is inflated. Meaning that 2.5% (or whatever it is right now) is the maximum it could be.

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Fitch said:

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Dang. One of the deaths reported was a kid in his 20's.

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AggieFactor said:

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They have got to be clearing out a testing backlog at the labs right? Dont see how we have almost a whole week last week of below 100 case average to almost double that the next week. Although maybe this is similar to the spike Tarrant saw last week and we should start to see the decline again in the next couple days.

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Ol Jock 99 said:

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"No increase in testing CAPACITY." Ok...what percentage capacity are the testing centers running? Obviously 100% would be a problem. But if they are running at 50-70%, capacity isn't the issue.

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John Francis Donaghy said:

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TexasAggie008 said:

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As was talked about a few pages back - #s in nursing homes and prisons should have 0.000% to do with when businesses can safely open

I think that's how Abbott and co see it, too, which is all that matters

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As long as employees of those prisons and nursing homes are still going to work, those employees are also still coming home from from work, and then going shopping, interacting with their families, who in turn go out in the world shopping, going to their own job, etc.

These isntitutions do not exist in their own isolated bubbles. The virus got into them due to interactions with the outside community, and it can can just as easily spread back out into the surrounding community from them.

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TexasAggie008 said:

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nm...apparently other people responded to it.

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DFWTLR said:

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Ol Jock 99 said:

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"No increase in testing CAPACITY." Ok...what percentage capacity are the testing centers running? Obviously 100% would be a problem. But if they are running at 50-70%, capacity isn't the issue.

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The testing sites are hitting capacity this week, but Clay is allowing asymptomatic people get tested, all you have to do is declare you're an essential worked.

Also, they are taking tests from the AAC and Ellis Fieldhouse and dispersing to the Parkland Mobile unit to test nursing homes. Started last week, and tested over 250 yesterday alone. I believe those have a quicker turn time as well since they are for more vulnerable patients.

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MGS said:

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DFWTLR said:

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Ol Jock 99 said:

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"No increase in testing CAPACITY." Ok...what percentage capacity are the testing centers running? Obviously 100% would be a problem. But if they are running at 50-70%, capacity isn't the issue.

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The testing sites are hitting capacity this week, but Clay is allowing asymptomatic people get tested, all you have to do is declare you're an essential worked.

Also, they are taking tests from the AAC and Ellis Fieldhouse and dispersing to the Parkland Mobile unit to test nursing homes. Started last week, and tested over 250 yesterday alone. I believe those have a quicker turn time as well since they are for more vulnerable patients.

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So misleading, testing capacity is irrelevant. Does Dallas county publish raw testing numbers? Is the rate of positive tests going up or down?

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Bingo Bango Bongo said:

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the case count #'s are essentially meaningless to me. hospitalization stats are the only thing i care about and the only metric that can be reasonably trusted. as testing grows, case counts will grow but that doesn't mean diddly squat as far as what a real curve looks like.

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