Not sure if everyone is following the good news coming out of Dallas around COVID-19. The numbers are looking hopeful that we are coming clear of the Omicron Surge and more importantly deaths are quickly following.
I’m not sure about the rest of you, but Omicron got me even though I was vaxed. I was lucky it was only 4 days of symptoms, then I was over it. Even crazier, those that were in close contact with me while I had symptoms didn’t catch it. By close, I’m talking same car for 16+ hours. I’m hopeful this variant lives up to the nickname of being "the Vaccine Variant ". Check out the charts and lets get a little excited that this one, while a crazy rise, is shaping up to clear out quickly.
That all said, stay vigilante. Dallas is still considered High Risk of Transmission.
The Dallas COVID Dashboard is working and the data is getting better and better.
Here is a direct link, I’m looking at page 6.
The data is looking better and better around COVID. While Omicron hit the DFW hard, peaking at 35,000ish new cases in one day, the resulting deaths per day peaked at 5 based on a 7 day rolling average. That is crazy, because when you look at the previous spike in August, we were seeing 10,000+ new cases a day, with deaths peaking over 19 a day based on the 7 day rolling average. While reading the optimistic information around omicron has been uplift, seeing it reflected in our local numbers is even more uplifting. Daily cases are still falling rapidly as well, with our current low being 901, trying to get back to the low in july of 2021 of around 680 a day. The difference being, in July we were on a much flatter trajectory, but now it is falling at a much steeper slope. Finger Crossed we see the number in the sub 500 if not lower in the coming data update on 2-19-21.
With all the political drama not letting up, seeing the global pandemic waning is just some good news I’ve been hoping for.
R(t) has been below 1.0 since around Jan 16th. Even the upper error bound has been below 1 since Jan 19th. Hospitalizations ( with or for - unknown ) are falling rapidly as well.
Love to see this! we are so close to the bottom now that we will have to see these number level out so what, but It continues to fall this quick as long as possible.
Now for a question,
Anyone know how the Daily Risk Level is set? Because we are starting to fall off the bottom of our graphs and this doesn’t seem to change.
In Colorado they’re saying that 90% of Colorado’s population has either had COVID or is fully vaccinated (or both). IMHO, that greatly reduces the likelihood of future transmission of the current variants.
For the majority of the last 2 years it seemed like very few in my friends group had actually had a confirmed case of COVID, until Omicron. Then, it went through friends and family like a wildfire. I had 12 close friends and family all come down with Covid in 2 weeks across the USA. All very mild cases lasting 4 or 5 days at the long end. All also fully vaccinated.
I think it has far less to do with the weather and far more to do with the variant. That all said, the news is still good news.
2 Deaths in a week related in someway to COVID!!! That is amazing out of 2.6ish million people. Also, Positive tests in the 200 range that is in the 0.007 percentile of the local population and still plummeting. I wonder if the next levels of the heat chart are less based on current numbers and more based on time with these very low numbers???
Any updates on DMS Policies around COVID? It seems the new Orange Level may have removed the “requirements” from state and local, changing them to “suggested”. I know there was an idea talked about, I think by a board member, based on local numbers a while back. But, I think that was either shot down, or reconsidered.
It continues to fall this quick as long as possible.
