This article is a North Texas Coronavirus Sitrep.
Short form — 30(+) cases in Dallas county and one death, a 77 year old man in a Masonic retirement community. His widow is now showing symptoms.
One middle schooler in the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) was at J.L. Long Middle School, near the Junius Heights neighborhood in Old East Dallas, Friday with symptoms. He was sent home early by the school nurse. The student tested positive Monday.
There were nine new cases in Dallas yesterday (3-17-2020) including two women in their 20s, a man in his 30s, a man and a woman in their 40s, two women in their 50s, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 70s.
The Dallas Morning News reports five of the patients were hospitalized, including three in critical-care units, health officials said. The four others were self-isolating
Dallas county is not releasing infection data on any individual case until after the contract trace interview is done. If it misses the daily release time. The case is announced the next day.
Student at Dallas middle school tests positive for coronavirus; city closes playgrounds
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/03/17/tarrant-countys-6th-coronavirus-patient-is-apparent-case-of-community-spread/
Sounds to me that the virus/ influenza, may have mutated (?).
The characteristics of the virus impacting on only the elderly may have changed indicating a mutant variant, perhaps regionalized .. ?
" The Dallas Morning News reports five of the (9)patients were hospitalized, including three in critical-care units,.."
doesn't meet the profile that CDC medical personnel have recently been touting... Interesting.