2. ADDRESS PUBLIC CONCERNS &
QUESTIONS ABOUT COVID-19 &
INTERVENTIONS
ENABLE EVIDENCE-BASED
DECISION MAKING
2
TASK FORCE OBJECTIVES
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3. 1. STAY-AT-HOME IF YOU CAN
2. FACE COVERINGS & SOCIAL DISTANCING
3. ISOLATE WHEN EXPOSED OR SYMPTOMATIC
4. PARTIAL REMOTE SCHOOLING
5. “OPEN TX”
a. 75% capacity in most businesses
3
COVID-19 INTERVENTIONS
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5. •Scenario 1:
• Transmission rate continues at 1.13
• Same as last week’s projection
•Scenario 2:
• Celebrate like Thanksgiving 2020
• Transmission dips to 0.91 before returning to 1.13
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WINTER HOLIDAY SCENARIOS
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6. SCENARIO 1
TRIGGERS
BUSINESS
ROLLBACK TO
50% JAN 13
SCENARIO 2
DOES NOT
TRIGGER
ROLLBACK
75% Business
Capacity
50%
75%
TRANSMISSION RATE ESTIMATION
COASTAL BEND
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THANKSGIVING
LULL
Rt = 1.13
50%
7. BOTH SCENARIOS
EQUALLY LIKELY
BASED ON CASE
REPORTING
75% Business
Capacity
50%
75%
DAILY CONFIRMED COVID CASES
COASTAL BEND
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50% 75%
12. 75% 50%
AMARILLO
DAL/FTW
HOUSTN
EL PASO/ LUBBOCK
S. TEXAS
AUSTIN
SAN ANT
75% Business
Capacity
LONGVW
DAILY COVID CASES PER 100K
TEXAS PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONS
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NW TEXAS
DECLINING, REST
OF TEXAS
INCREASING
13. DAILY CENSUS COVID INPATIENTS
DOWNWARD
TREND IN PAST 5
DAYS SUPPORTS
GREEN
PROJECTION
75% Business
Capacity
50%
75%
COASTAL BEND
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50% 75%
14. PERCENT OF STAFFED HOSPITAL BEDS
WITH COVID INPATIENTS
15
DEC 24, STARTED
TOWARDS 15%
12%
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COASTAL BEND
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15. CENSUS ICU PATIENTS: DEC 27
COASTAL BEND
NON-
COVID
COVID
145
95
50
ICU COVID PATIENTS
SLIGHTLY INCREASED
IN LAST FEW DAYS
COVID
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17. MORE ICU
COVID PATIENTS
IN MOST PARTS
OF TEXAS
RELATIVE TO
LAST WEEK
PATIENT
CENSUS
NON-COVID
COVID
COVID
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TEXAS ICU PATIENTS: JAN 03
18. 18
COASTAL BEND COVID-19 FATALITIES
FATALITIES LEVELING
FOR CB (BACKLOG?),
EXPECTED TO
INCREASE
* Death certificates
from past 14 days still
being processed
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548 NUECES
862* CB
19. SUMMARY
•Transmission rate above 1
• Fall-Winter Outbreak continuing
• Unsure if there was a Christmas-New Year lull
•New cases increasing, hospitalizations are decreasing
•Fatality data likely backlogged due to holidays
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• 2021, Happy New Year!
• Maintain vigilance
• Face coverings + social distancing
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