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Dallas County reports 1,862 coronavirus cases, 1 death; Tarrant reports 1,537 cases, 6 deaths

Dallas County reported 1,862 more coronavirus cases and one COVID-19 death Sunday.

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The latest fatality was a Dallas woman in her 50s who had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying health problems.

Of the new cases reported Sunday, 1,811 were confirmed and 51 were probable. The newly reported cases bring the county’s total confirmed cases to 118,962 and probable cases to 11,224. The county has recorded 1,185 confirmed COVID-19 deaths and 26 probable deaths.

The county has announced it is counting only positive antigen tests (sometimes called rapid tests) as probable cases; a few antibody and “household” results were included previously.

Although other North Texas counties provide estimates for how many people have recovered from the virus, Dallas County officials do not report recoveries, noting that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention do not use that metric.

The county reported that during the Nov. 8-14 period, 1,224 school-age children tested positive for COVID-19. Since Nov. 1, there have been 2,851 COVID-19 cases in school-age children and staff members, the county said.

More than two-thirds of all confirmed cases requiring hospitalization so far have been in people under 65, and diabetes has been an underlying condition in about one-third of all hospitalized patients, according to the county.

The county’s provisional seven-day average of daily new confirmed and probable cases for the latest reporting period, Nov. 8-14, was 1,321, the highest case rate the county has seen so far. The figure is calculated by the date of the COVID-19 test collection, according to the county.

Dallas County doesn’t provide a positivity rate for all COVID-19 tests conducted in the area; county health officials have said they don’t have an accurate count of how many tests are conducted each day. But as of the county’s most recent reporting period, 16.8% of people who showed up at hospitals with COVID-19 symptoms tested positive for the virus. That’s an increase from the previous reporting period, when 15.3% such patients tested positive.

Of the county’s total confirmed COVID-19 deaths, about 23% are associated with long-term care facilities

Statewide data

Texas reported 8,554 more coronavirus cases and 89 COVID-19 deaths Sunday, bringing the state’s confirmed case count to 1,094,275 and its fatalities to 20,556.

There are 8,174 COVID-19 patients in Texas hospitals, including 2,301 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Statewide, the seven-day average positivity rate, based on the date of test specimen collection, was 11.3% as of Saturday. Health officials have said using data based on when people were tested provides the most accurate positivity rate.

The state also provides a positivity rate based on when lab results were reported to the state; that rate stood at 12.6% as of Saturday.

Officials previously calculated Texas’ coronavirus positivity rate by dividing the most recent seven days of new positive test results by the most recent seven days of total new test results. By that measure, the positivity rate is now about 10%, according to the state dashboard.

A spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services has said positivity rate data based on lab results and new cases probably will be phased out but are being provided for transparency and continuity purposes.

Tarrant County

Tarrant County reported 1,537 coronavirus cases and six new deaths Sunday.

Details about the latest victims weren’t immediately available.

The newly reported cases bring the county’s total to 90,316, including 80,157 confirmed cases, 10,253 probable cases and 65,340 recoveries. The death toll stands at 830.

According to Sunday’s numbers on the county dashboard, 765 people are hospitalized with the virus.

Collin County

The state added 690 coronavirus cases to Collin County’s total Sunday, bringing the tally to 23,381. No new COVID-19 fatalities were reported, so the county’s death toll remained at 238.

According to state data, the county has 2,891 active cases of the virus and has recorded 20,490 recoveries.

The county’s coronavirus dashboard provides only total hospitalizations, now at 275.

Denton County

Denton County officials have said they will no longer report new coronavirus data Sundays.

As of Saturday, the county had reported 21,453 cases, including 4,617 that were active and 16,690 that were recoveries. The death toll stood at 146.

Other counties

The Texas Department of State Health Services has taken over reporting for these other North Texas counties. In some counties, new data may not be reported every day.

The latest numbers are:

  • Rockwall County: 2,538 cases, 36 deaths.
  • Kaufman County: 4,315 cases, 76 deaths.
  • Ellis County: 6,107 cases, 107 deaths.
  • Johnson County: 4,842 cases, 93 deaths.

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