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San Antonio has seen a massive influx of coronavirus patients into its hospitals over the past few months.
San Antonio has seen a massive influx of coronavirus patients into its hospitals over the past few months.
Photo: Bob Owen / San Antonio Express News
San Antonio has seen a massive influx of coronavirus patients into its hospitals over the past few months.
San Antonio has seen a massive influx of coronavirus patients into its hospitals over the past few months.
Photo: Bob Owen / San Antonio Express News
This article will be updated throughout the week with counts of coronavirus and other necessary information about the pandemic in San Antonio.
August 15th
Another sign that conditions improve: Officials reported just 59 new cases of the virus in Bexar County, but officials are warning residents to remain vigilant.
Cheese growth slow, but deaths continue to rise: San Antonio continued to see a slowdown in new cases of coronavirus and fewer COVID-19-related hospitalizations Saturday, but officials reported 13 more deaths due to the virus. The Metropolitan Health District reported 170 coronavirus cases of 170 newly diagnosed cases on Saturday, while the death toll has risen to 591 since the start of the pandemic.
August 14th
Hospitalization declines, but COVID-19 continues to kill: Officials from San Antonio and Bexar County on Friday reported 150 newly diagnosed coronavirus cases, along with 18 more deaths. The number of hospitalized patients for COVID-19 is still declining. On Friday, 651 patients who tested positive for the virus remained in San Antonio hospitals, Mayor Ron Nirenberg reported. Among them, 306 sat in intensive care units, while 195 sat on ventilators to help them breathe.
Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said the community has “come a long way” by halving its coronavirus-related hospitalizations since July 13, when a total of 1,267 hospitalizations were reported. He praised the audience for “a lot of good work” over the past 30 days.
State Farm does not have to pay losses to SA companies: A federal judge on Thursday dropped a lawsuit brought by six San Antonio barber shops against State Farm Lloyds for losses after they were forced to close to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra said State Farm could not be held liable to pay business interruption insurance on the COVID-19 virus claims. The lawsuit was brought by Shayne Brown, owner of Diesel Barbershop, Henley’s Gentlemen’s Grooming and Outlaws & Gents Grooming. State Farm has said its policy does not cover losses due to pandemics.
August 13th
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed another 15 lives in Bexar County, mostly Spanish, bringing the local death toll to 560, the Metropolitan Health District reported Thursday.
The province registered 218 new infections, a sharp drop from the 291 cases reported Wednesday and well below the seven-day average of 243 new cases, an average that even slowly declined.
UIW cancels football: Incarnate Word will not be playing football this fall, as the Southland Conference on Thursday announced the decision to suspend fall athletics in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Although Southland noted that “limited fall competition” was allowed, UIW announced the postponement of any fall competition “out of an overwhelming concern for the health and safety of its student-athletes.”
COVID-19 killed disproportionately in SA: About half of the people who died at COVID-19 lived on the west and south sides, parts of the city that are overwhelmingly Spanish, figures shared with the San Antonio Express-News show. More than a third of the 276 deaths that occurred within city limits as of Aug. 2 were in two council districts: District 3, which includes the Southeast Side, and District 5, which includes parts of the South Side and the heart of e West embraced Page.
Cases undetected: Thousands of COVID-19 cases in the early stages of the global pandemic may have been undetected in two of the initial epicenters for the virus, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Texas-Austin. The new report, published Tuesday in a scientific journal, revealed that COVID-19 was already distributed in Wuhan, China, and Seattle, Washington weeks prior to lockdown measures in each city.
August 12th
COVID-19 updates: COVID-19 has killed another 26 people in Bexar County, a range that includes confirmed deaths since early June, bringing the total death toll in the epidemic to 545, the Metropolitan Health District reported Wednesday. Bexar County registered 291 new cases of the disease.
August 11th
COVID-19 updates: Bexar County added 53 more deaths to coronavirus to the total as it continues to solve a difference in numbers between its count and the state. The deaths occurred from July 1 to July 21, officials said. Combined with 11 more deaths reported Tuesday, the toll now stands at 519. Bexar County officials are investigating 265 additional deaths.
COVID-19 to kill nearly 27,000 Texans in August: A University of Texas at Austin is modeling projects that will kill 15,000 more Texans by the end of August from COVID-19. The model estimated that between 20,655 and 26,726 people in Texas would die from the virus by August 31 – a sharp increase from the 8,459 cumulative deaths the state reported as of Sunday. While the figures weigh, were influenced by a change in reporting of deaths, the projection is biased.
August 10th
COVID-19 updates: The novel coronavirus claimed 10 more lives in Bexar County, as officials reported 176 new positive cases on Monday. The death toll since the start of the pandemic now stands at 455. Nearly 300 people have died in the last month alone.
Student for bandkamp tests positive: A Comal ISD high school student tested positive for COVID-19 during a school band campus, according to a letter sent to parents over the weekend. The letter was sent to parents of band director Steve Vaden of Canyon High School and said the student had attended camp on Aug. 6. The letter did not make clear when the school district was notified of the positive test.
Group investigates Texas lawmaker: A non-partisan political watchdog group has asked the U.S. House Ethics Bureau for the behavior of Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert to investigate during the outbreak of coronavirus, when he refused to wear a mask on Capitol Hill and “advised” his staff to wear them. Gohmert tested positive for the coronavirus July 29; after his diagnosis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a new rule requiring all lawmakers and staff members to wear masks in the chamber.
Future of college football uncertain: Big Ten executives are in favor of canceling the college football season until the spring semester – their university presidents voted 12-2 to do so, according to The Dan Patrick Show, with only Nebraska and Iowa hoping to do so – while fellow conferences such as the SEC and Big 12 are up for grabs by a season, according to multiple accounts.
9 August
COVID-19 update: Thirteen more people have died from COVID-19 in Bexar County, a calculation that includes loss of life in the last month and that brings the death toll since the start of the pandemic to 445, the Metropolitan Health District reported Sunday.
Pre-school education: The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of the nation’s early childhood education system, which was already working on razor-thin margins. The virus only serves to further erode a network that not only provides working parents with a safe place to place their children during the day.
