Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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COVID cases still on way up

With the omicron variant of COVID-19 still spreading rapidly throughout the county, state and nation, the Kendall County officials are working to set up a county testing facility and to put on more vaccination drives.

With the omicron variant of COVID-19 still spreading rapidly throughout the county, state and nation, the Kendall County officials are working to set up a county testing facility and to put on more vaccination drives.

Active cases in Kendall County soared to all-time highs over the past week, nearly tripling the county’s previous 213-case record on Friday morning as active cases reached 611, when the Texas Department of State Health Services changed its COVID-19 data dashboard for the state. The change no longer provides active or recovered cases – a change Kendall County Emergency Management Coordinator Jeff Fincke said has made it much more difficult for counties to track data.

Fincke said an email has been sent to the state health services department to figure out what changes are expected and what the plan is for data reporting at the county level. There has been some debate as to what numbers best represent the state of the pandemic, wavering between active cases, hospitalization rates and recoveries, but Fincke said the newest variant quickly making its way through the nation is less deadly than previous variants. So, hospitalization rates are much lower and disproportionate to the number of cases cropping up in the county.

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