VARIOUS AREA ‘S HOSPITALIZED COVID  CENSUS
TRAUMA AREA	4/8/20	5/1/20	AVG TO 1 JUNE	6/1/20	6/15/20	6/27/20	6/30/20	7/1/20	7/2/20	7/3/20	7/4/20	7/5/20
MARSHALL/TYLER/LGV	26	63	46	49	53	75	85	79	91	96	113	116
DALLAS	579	636	569	580	728	1248	1375	1411	1499	1534	1531	1562
AUSTIN	45	69	61	89	123	337	388	408	426	459	461	469
HOUSTON	495	475	480	482	696	1691	2059	2139	2250	2257	2369	2442
SAN ANTONIO	69	54	70	106	165	815	1010	1091	1170	1196	1208	1217
RIO GRAND VALLEY	39	30	38	37	87	451	545	588	693	753	820	836
STATE OF TEXAS	1491	1778	1670	1756	2287	5523	6533	6904	7382	7652	7890	8181

 

J. Harris: All the hospital census counts are up. The hospitals in the Valley are said to be full up. Likely, counts will continue to go up; we’ll get a good count on Tuesday when the counters are back at work — then in two weeks, we’ll have another larger increase due to July 4 holiday carelessness. Maybe then the counts will go down until Labor Day. And then there’s winter. Wear your mask when out and about. 

 

MAP OF THE VARIOUS TRAUMA AREA DESIGNATES IN TEXAS (HARRISON COUNTY IS IN G)

 

FROM JUDGE SIMS:

July 4, 2020 –  14 new cases and 4 recoveries to report today.

July 5, 2020 –  12 new cases to report today, all are from long-term care facilities.

 

Gregg County’s jump in COVID-19 cases continued Sunday as 12 more cases were reported, bringing the total to 465.

 

 

 

 

 

Elegant in theory, efficacious in the laboratory but untested in the real world, the possible RNA vaccines are especially attractive because they might be cheaper, easier and faster to manufacture on a massive scale — at least one team boasts it could partner with producers in developing countries to provide millions of vials for as little as $5 a pop

 

The leading American effort, an RNA vaccine being developed by the Massachusetts biotechnology company Moderna, went from a genetic sequence on a computer screen to a shot in the arm of a person in an unprecedented 66 days.

 

It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally.