TARRANT COUNTY, Texas — Tarrant County Public Health said that as of Wednesday, there are 148 people hospitalized with COVID-19. That's down from 165 the previous day.
This is the 55th consecutive day the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has been below 200 in the county, data shows.
COVID patients make up 3% of the total hospital bed capacity. The county currently has a 14-day average of 154 hospitalizations.
Health officials reported 113 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. There have been 259,697 total cases in the county since tracking began in March 2020.
As of Wednesday, 1,317,744 doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in Tarrant County.
Dallas County passes 4,000 total COVID-19 deaths
Dallas County health officials also announced 160 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the county total to 259,821 since tracking began in March 2020.
Of these new cases, 53 are considered probable, because they came from antigen tests.
There were also eight new deaths in the county. These ranged in age from a Dallas woman in her 40s to a Dallas woman in her 90s.
There have now been 4,005 total deaths in Dallas County since tracking began in March 2020.
Collin County adds 34 new cases
There were 34 new COVID-19 cases in Collin County on Wednesday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. This is down from the 52 reported on last Tuesday.
The county is averaging 41 new COVID-19 cases in the past 14 days.
Collin County health officials said it has 60 COVID-19 hospitalizations as of Wednesday, up from 55 on Tuesday. This number has remained below 100 since April 16.
Health officials say COVID-19 patients make 3% of Collin County's total hospital bed capacity.
Denton County reports 10 new deaths
Denton County health officials reported 10 new deaths related to COVID-19 on Wednesday. These include:
- An Argyle man in his 70s
- A Lewisville man over 80
- A man in his 70s who lived in unincorporated southwest Denton County
- A Lake Dallas woman in her 70s
- A Lewisville woman in her 60s
- A Copper Canyon woman over 80
- A Lewisville man in his 50s
- A Lewisville man in his 60s
- A Lewisville man in his 60s
- A Lewisville man in his 70s
Health officials also announced Wednesday there were six ICU beds available in the county's hospitals. This is down from 11 on Tuesday.
COVID-19 patients currently make up 18% of the Denton County patients currently in ICU beds.
There are currently 28 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the county. There were 29 on Tuesday and 30 on Monday.
The county currently has a 14-day average of 28 hospitalizations.
Health officials reported 54 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday. There have now been 75,621 total cases in the county since tracking began in March 2020.
As of Monday, 203,734 people in Denton County have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and 189,237 have received their second doses.
Texas reports 1,464 new COVID-19 cases
State health officials reported 1,464 new cases of COVID-19 Wednesday. This is the 15th day in a row there have been fewer than 3,000 daily cases in the state.
Texas has had fewer than 5,000 reported cases every day since March 3. The cases have started to level off since that point.
The state's current 14-day average is 1,474. The record-high 14-day average happened from Jan. 4-17 when it was 18,915.
Texas reports 2,129 hospitalizations
On Wednesday, state health officials reported there are currently 2,129 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas.
This is the 36th consecutive day this statistic has remained below 3,000.
The record-high number of hospitalizations happened on Jan. 11 when there were 14,218 patients in Texas hospitals.
The state currently has a 14-day average of 2,351 hospitalizations.
Texas reports 12 new cases in long-term care facilities
Long-term care facilities in Texas are seeing a significant decrease in COVID-19 cases, according to statistics from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
There were 12 new COVID-19 cases added in nursing facilities and assisted living facilities Wednesday, health officials said. The last time there were more than 100 reported cases happened on April 23 when there were 338 cases.
In March, long-term care facilities in Texas averaged 37 new cases a day. This went down to a monthly record-low of eight new cases a day in April.
Through 19 days in May, these facilities are averaging 15 new cases a day.
The highest monthly average happened in December when Texas long-term care facilities were averaging 614 cases a day.
Texas sets record-low 14-day average of daily cases in child care facilities
Texas child care centers have seen some of the lowest numbers of daily COVID-19 cases in the past month since tracking began, according to statistics from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Child care centers, along with before-school and after-school programs, have to report COVID-19 cases to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Those cases are reported daily here.
State officials reported Wednesday there were 16 new cases of COVID-19 in these facilities.
Since May 6, every day the state has reported cases in child care facilities, the number has remained below 25.
These facilities currently have a 14-day average of 10.9 new cases a day. This is a new record-low for the state.
The record-high happened from Jan. 19 through Feb. 1 when these facilities averaged 115 new cases a day.
While there were 21 consecutive days in January and February with more than 100 new cases reported for both employees and children combined, this statistic has started to level off and remained below 100 since Feb. 9 and below 50 since March 2.
