Texas (WBAP/KLIP) – Texas is among over a dozen states states seeing a significant rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The number of people sickened with the virus across Texas’ hospitals hit a new high Wednesday, surging about 11% in a single day. That, as Governor Greg Abbott said this week that he’s confident that Texas has sufficient hospital capacity to handle a surge.
Over 93-thousand cases reported Wednesday across the Lone Star State, with over 2000 fatalities. Those who have died range in age from teens to 90s, most has underlying medical conditions.
Dallas County reported its highest one day COVID-19 case count of 413 and 9 more deaths; Tarrant county reported 180 new cases and one death; Collin County documented 101 new cases and Denton County reported its highest one-day case count at 82.
Seventeen of the new cases in Dallas County came from 9 day care centers across the county.
Data released by Johns Hopkins shows that sates seeing record-high averages are Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina and Texas.
Across DFW, there are over 29-thousand positive cases and over 650 deaths.
And, North Texas now has the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations with 859 of the nearly 2800 patients statewide.
Nationwide, cases increased 23,000 according to stats released Wednesday to 2.21 million; 119,000 people have died.
As of May 30, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that over 10M Americans have been tested.
Meantime, a WebMD article cites the latest research that says wearing of face masks — even homemade ones — could go a long way toward reducing coronavirus transmission rates and might help control a second wave of the virus, according to a British study released Wednesday.
“Scientists from Cambridge and Greenwich universities said stay-at-home orders aren’t enough to stop the spread of the coronavirus. But when lock-down periods are combined with 100% face mask use, “there is vastly less disease spread, secondary and tertiary waves are flattened and the epidemic is brought under control,” said the study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
“We conclude that face mask use by the public, when used in combination with physical distancing or periods of lock-down, may provide an acceptable way of managing the COVID-19 pandemic and re-opening economic activity,” the study said.”
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