'So the question becomes if people travel to an area of high spread, which you know we are in the medium risk category there's a chance we will see an uptick,' said Timothy Bray, director at Institute for Urban Policy Research at The University of Texas at Dallas.īray went over the data with Dallas city council members during the Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Recovery and Assistance committee meeting on Thursday. But Dallas health officials say residents should check COVID trends before booking their Spring Break travel plans.

North Texas is seeing a decrease in COVID-19 numbers.

Collin County has almost 72% of eligible residents fully vaccinated, and Denton County about 65%.ĭallas health officials urge residents to check COVID trends before Spring Break travel Jenkins said the doctors who advise him say another potent strain of COVID-19 is inevitable, meaning vaccines continue to be crucial to keep people safe and reduce infections.Ībout 63% of Dallas County residents ages 5 and older are fully vaccinated, slightly better than Tarrant County’s 60% and slightly worse than the state as a whole, which has about 64% of eligible people fully vaccinated. Both the average daily case count and the average daily death count are way down from January. The six-day average of vaccinations was 70.33 on Monday, down from 708.83 on Jan. The site he was referring to is Dallas College’s Eastfield Campus in Mesquite.ĬOVID-19 cases are slowing in Dallas County, but so are vaccinations. “Over the weekend, the number one site in Texas did 91 vaccines,” Jenkins said. “The state tells us that we’re number one - we have the number one site for vaccinating people,” he started. Judge Clay Jenkins reported some good news at a Tuesday meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court. Tuesday, March 8ĭallas County has the best-performing state vaccination site, Jenkins says. Jenkins says as of today, 60% of Dallas county residents are fully vaccinated and 20% are boosted. If you hadn't gotten your booster, get it and go out, live your lives and have some fun.' 'For now, we're at Green, we're at the new normal. That means the county is at the lowest risk level since the beginning of the pandemic.ĭallas County Judge Clay Jenkins says fully vaccinated and boosted residents can now safely go about activities such as concerts, restaurants and other crowded events. Global: See Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 dashboard.ĭallas County officials lower COVID-19 risk level to greenĭallas County officials have lowered the COVID-19 risk level to Green which means a new normal for fully vaccinated residents.Counties across Texas: Use the Texas Newsroom's interactive maps.There have been at least 12,277 reported deaths in the region's four largest counties. Cases In North Texas: Tarrant County: 376,070 Dallas County: 353,389 Denton County: 112,941 Collin County: 109,534.In Texas: More than 4.3 million cases and more than 74,100 deaths have been reported.Direct and Indirect Impacts of COVID-19 on Excess Deaths and Morbidity: Executive Summary - 15 July 2020 (UK Government, 2020). PLoS ONE 16, e0252729 (2021).ĭepartment of Health and Social Care, Office for National Statistics, Government Actuary’s Department and Home Office. COVID-19: Make It the Last Pandemic (IPPPR, 2021). Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness & Response. R., Fowler, A., Glazer, T., Handel-Meyer, S. Meyerowitz-Katz, G., Besançon, L., Flahault, A.

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