The demographic data does not include information on other underlying health factors.Īlthough more efficient than its previous method for collecting information on deaths, the new method from DSHS is not without errors.
Only nine deaths - or one-tenth of one percent - have been among individuals younger than 20.
The new method pulls data directly from death certificates, which allows the information to be gathered more efficiently and also provides more demographic data.Ī third of all deaths have been among individuals more than 80 years old, and only eight percent have been among individuals younger than 50. If DSHS still used that method today, it would give the impression that the number of new fatalities each day is continuing to increase rather than beginning to curve downward. The old method caused significant delays in reporting fatalities, which led to inaccurate trend lines. The number of coronavirus-related fatalities in Texas peaked on July 14 with 221 deaths, and the number of new deaths each day has slowly declined since.ĭSHS changed its method for reporting fatalities on July 27.īefore then, the state relied on local and county health departments to report new fatalities and would then report the collected data. Notably, the hospitalization rate - that is, the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients out of the total number of estimated active cases - has continued to decline since early July even with active cases declining since a peak on July 24. However, by the end of July, the state indicated that it was reporting complete hospitalization data that was heading in a downward direction.Īs of August 11, the state reported 7,216 hospitalizations, a 34 percent drop from the peak less than three weeks ago. DSHS said that only 85 percent of hospitals reported complete data on July 23, and there was a similar amount of incomplete data over the following several days.
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