For the second day in a row, the percentage of hospital admissions at Covid-119 in North Texas rose to more than 15% on Saturday – a target set by Governor Greg Abbott due to mild sanctions.
Ab kto. According to Abbott’s executive order, which came into force on the 14th, if the number of hospitalized patients in Covid-19 is more than 15% of all patients in the fixed trauma service area for seven days, the bar will be forced to close and all other occupational capacity reduced from 75% to 50%. Should.
The Dallas-Fort Worth area is in the Trauma Service Area E, comprising 19 counties: Colin, Cook, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Fenin, Grayson, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall. , Somerwell, Tarantula and Wise.
While some individual counties in the TSA E have risen more than 15% before Friday, the seven-day count does not begin until the number of the entire area has been exceeded.
The North Texas Trauma Service Area was up 15.05% on Friday and 15.63% on Saturday before 14.87% on Thursday.
There are already five trauma service areas that have exceeded 15% capacity for seven or more days – the areas around Amarillo, Lubbock, El Paso, Midland-dess Dessa and Laredo.
Other regions that were above 15% for at least one day on Saturday were centered around San Angelo, Texarkana, Victoria and Waco. Meanwhile, the regions near Abilene, Beaumont, C College Ledge Station and Tyler were all above 14%.
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