Tarrant County Public Health Department confirms that the county hospital’s ICUs are at 99 percent capacity on Tuesday with only six beds available. The county’s health department also confirmed that an additional 1,278 new cases of COVID-19 were reported Tuesday, along with a further 23 new deaths.
At the meeting of the Tarrant County Commissioners’ court meeting on Tuesday, health director Vinny Taneja reported that the county has six IC beds left.
“Someone has a heart attack or a serious traffic accident, now you have to decide which person is most critical. Where do you put them? Do you put them in the ICU or try to treat them outside of IC care?” Taneja explained. “That’s where the burden of one disease gets overwhelming.”
According to the TCPH COVID-19 dashboard, there are 1,323 COVID-19 patients in provincial hospitals, which is 29% of ICU patients. The total occupancy rate of all hospital beds in the province is now 88%.
Of the 1,323 COVID-19 patients, 258 are in the ICU.
The Tarrant District Public Health Department confirms 2016 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, along with an additional 16 new deaths. TCPH also reports that more than 1,030 people in the province have been hospitalized with the virus, including more than 200 in ICUs.
“Hospitals have plans for a pandemic. Don’t let me scare people that they don’t know or that they don’t have the capacity. They do, but do you really want to increase that capacity? We already know that we are short of staff. , “Taneja said.” Staff have been working in the hospital for nearly 10 months dealing with a lot of COVID and illness. They are tired. Some of them had COVID, family with COVID, some died. So, do you really want to stretch? that ability? “
In the past seven days, the province has announced 11,188 new cases of the virus, or an average of 1,431 per day. Data from the county’s health department indicates that there are 1,278 more confirmed cases than the most recent report and 31 fewer likely cases.
The latest victims included a Keller man over 100, a Bedford woman in her 90’s, a Hurst man in her 90’s, a Fort Worth woman in her 90’s, a Fort Worth woman in her in their 80’s, two men from Bedford in their 80, two women from Mansfield in their 80, two men from Fort Worth in their 80, a man from Grapevine in the 80, a woman from Bedford in the 70, a man from Crowley in the 70, two men from Benbrook in their 70s, one man from Fort Worth in their 70s, one woman from Hurst in her 70s, one man from Fort Worth in her 60s, one woman from Euless in her 60s, one man from Crowley in his fifties, a man from Mansfield in his fifties, and a man from Fort Worth in his thirties. Three had no underlying health problems, three had unknown underlying conditions, while the others had underlying conditions.
Tarrant County, which last month extended its mask mandate to February 28, 2021, began reporting both probable and confirmed cases of COVID-19 in August at the request of the state health service. Likely cases, the county said, are responsible for a variety of real-world situations and can reveal cases in the community that would otherwise go unreported. To date, the province has reported 127,256 confirmed cases of the virus and 18,023 probable cases for a total of 145,279 cases.
The county also reports an additional 1,113 estimated recoveries, bringing the total survivors to 106,644. There are currently an estimated 37,187 active cases in the county, the bulk of all North Texas counties.
With 1,448 deaths now attributed to the virus, COVID-19 is now expected to become the third biggest killer of Tarrant County residents after cancer and heart disease and is expected to surpass the annual total for stroke later this year.
COVID-19 causes a respiratory disease with cough, fever and shortness of breath and can lead to bronchitis, severe pneumonia, or even death. For more information go to coronavirus.tarrantcounty.com or call the Tarrant County Public Health information line, 817-248-6299, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.