Over 5,000 positive tests and a 1% uptick in hospitalizations.
My sister works in the Tarrant county hospital. She gives me a front row seat to the goings-on. I don’t care what the metrics say, it’s never as bad as they say. And she will not take the vaccine, nor will many of the other healthcare workers that she associates with. They know this is a political stunt.
A small uptick in hospitalizations as we head into flu season. Seems to happen just about every year.
Statewide, Texas reports that new daily cases really took of the last two weeks in December - more than tripling (4.2K/day to 13.8K/day, from the 14th to the 28th).
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases (select State from drop down menu above chart)
Texas is still below it’s peak case rates from the Delta wave or last Winter’s big wave, but it is rising quickly, and other places in the Country have recently quickly blown by their old records.
It still looks good that hospitals will not be overwhelmed though, because Omicron is so less severe (and/or immunity is more widespread).
https://www.tarrantcounty.com/en/public-health/disease-control---prevention/COVID-19.html
12/21 - 231 COVID patients
12/29 - 533 COVID patients
That's a 131% increase in cases in 8 days.