Houston may be on the verge of higher COVID spread despite cases plateauing, TMC data suggests
over the past week, but some trends suggest the Greater Houston area could be on the verge of seeing higher virus spread.during the week of April 18, the same number it reported during the previous seven-day period. The number of new cases does not include anyone who used an at-home test and did not report a positive result.
Those numbers represent a significant decline from last month, when the hospitals were reporting an average of 2,592 new cases per day.– or the average number of people who will be infected by someone with COVID – increased to 1.0 last week, up from 0.82 one week earlier. The rate essentially measures how well collective behaviors like wearing masks and social distancing are slowing the spread of the virus, with any rate higher than 1.0 meaning that spread is increasing.
The TMC's weekly update also shows new hospitalizations have increased to an average of 59 admissions per day during the week of April 18, up from 42 the week before. TMC hospitals admitted an average of 89 new patients per day last month.The positivity rate for COVID-19 testing was 2% last week, up from 1.9% one week earlier. The positivity rate was 2.1% last month.
TMC institutions have administered more than 3 million COVID vaccine doses, as of April 23, with nearly 1.4 million people now fully vaccinated.
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