Dallas County 7 COVID-19 Deaths Shy Of Weekly Record With 2 Days To Go
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Dallas County Health and Human Services reported 1,149 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in Dallas County on Thursday, Feb. 4.
Of those, 789 are confirmed cases and 360 are probable cases.
There is a cumulative total of 232,200 confirmed cases (PCR test).
There is a cumulative total of 31,687 probable cases (antigen test).
A total of 2,355 Dallas County residents have lost their lives due to COVID-19 illness after 35 more deaths were reported Thursday.
"Today we report an additional 35 deaths, leaving us seven deaths short of the weekly record number we posted last week with two days to go," said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins.
Judge Jenkins said while thousands are getting vaccinated every day, there is more work to be done.
"Here in North Texas, we continue to vaccinate tens of thousands of people a day but vaccine alone will not win the battle against COVID. We must use all the tools at our disposal. This includes wearing your mask, washing your hands, maintaining a safe distance, avoiding crowds, and forgoing get-togethers. Those who can telecommute should do it to the fullest extent possible," said Judge Jenkins.
DCHHS is providing initial vaccinations to those most at risk of exposure to COVID-19 and 36,024 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered at the Fair Park mega-vaccine clinic, which started operations on Monday, January 11.
With the additional allotment from the State of Texas for Week 8, there are fewer than 2,000 doses remaining for the week.
Four cases of the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 have been identified in residents of Dallas County who did not have recent travel outside of the U.S.
The provisional seven-day average of daily new confirmed and probable cases (by date of test collection) for CDC week 3 was 1,595, which is a rate of 60.5 daily new cases per 100,000 residents.
The percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 remains high, with 25.7% of symptomatic patients presenting to area hospitals testing positive in week 3 (week ending 1/23/21).
The additional deaths reported Thursday include the following:
- A man in his 40's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 40's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He expired in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 40's who was a resident of the City of Lancaster. She had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 50's who was a resident of the City of Mesquite. She had been critically ill and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She expired at home and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been hospitalized in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 60's who was a resident of the City of Cedar Hill. She had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the city of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been hospitalized and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the city of Carrollton. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the City of Mesquite. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He expired at home and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 60's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. She had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been hospitalized.
- A woman in her 70's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Dallas. She expired in the facility and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 70's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Dallas. She expired in the facility and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of the City of Garland. He was found deceased at home and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of the City of Carrollton. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Desoto. He had been critically ill in an area hospital and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of the City of Garland. He had been hospitalized.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Garland. He had been hospitalized and did not have underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 70's who was a resident of the City of Mesquite. He expired in an area hospital ED and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 80's who was a resident of the City of Dallas. He had been critically ill and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 80's who was a resident of the City of Grand Prairie. She had been critically ill and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 80's who was a resident of the City of Irving. He expired in hospice and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 80's who was a resident of the City of Sunnyvale. She expired at home and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 80's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Mesquite. She expired in the facility and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 80's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Mesquite. She expired in the facility and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 90's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Balch Springs. He had been hospitalized and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 90's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Lancaster. She expired in the facility and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A woman in her 90's who was a resident of a long-term care facility in the City of Grand Prairie. She had been hospitalized and had underlying high risk health conditions.
- A man in his 90's who was a resident of the City of Cedar Hill. He expired in hospice and had underlying high risk health conditions.
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