(Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, right, tours a medical facility that was set up to handle a possible overflow of COVID-19 patients from local hospitals, Saturday, April 11, 2020, at NRG Park in Houston. Jon Shapley, Staff photographer.)
By Dylan McGuinness and Zach Despart
Houston reported 615 new coronavirus cases Thursday — a 62 percent daily increase and the largest single-day spike of the pandemic — as well as two additional deaths as health officials remain hampered by limited testing and delayed results.
Harris County reported 91 new cases and one new death, an African-American woman in her 80s. Countywide, there have been 3,047 confirmed cases and 34 deaths as of Thursday evening. Almost 420 ill residents have recovered.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said half of the new Houston cases came from March tests, with the remaining from the past nine days. The city received a “large volume” of reports electronically from testing labs and hospitals. Backlogs have led to other single-day bursts, as well, including 402 new cases reported on Monday.
The unpredictable lag between a test and confirmed case complicates efforts by epidemiologists to determine whether the virus is reaching its peak here. Houston-area hospitals are bracing for a surge in cases and Harris County by Friday plans to complete a makeshift field hospital next to the Astrodome for use as a last resort.
(As the number of confirmed cases of the potentially deadly virus continues to explode across the Houston region - tripling from 1,000 to more than 3,000 in just the past week - there is mounting evidence that the true scope of the disease here could be far worse than the numbers indicate.
A Houston Chronicle analysis of testing data collected through Wednesday shows that Texas has the second-worst rate of testing per capita in the nation, with only 332 tests conducted for every 100,000 people. Only Kansas ranks lower, at 327 per 100,000 people.)
Harris County reported 91 new cases and one new death, an African-American woman in her 80s. Countywide, there have been 3,047 confirmed cases and 34 deaths as of Thursday evening. Almost 420 ill residents have recovered.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said half of the new Houston cases came from March tests, with the remaining from the past nine days. The city received a “large volume” of reports electronically from testing labs and hospitals. Backlogs have led to other single-day bursts, as well, including 402 new cases reported on Monday.
The unpredictable lag between a test and confirmed case complicates efforts by epidemiologists to determine whether the virus is reaching its peak here. Houston-area hospitals are bracing for a surge in cases and Harris County by Friday plans to complete a makeshift field hospital next to the Astrodome for use as a last resort.
(As the number of confirmed cases of the potentially deadly virus continues to explode across the Houston region - tripling from 1,000 to more than 3,000 in just the past week - there is mounting evidence that the true scope of the disease here could be far worse than the numbers indicate.A Houston Chronicle analysis of testing data collected through Wednesday shows that Texas has the second-worst rate of testing per capita in the nation, with only 332 tests conducted for every 100,000 people. Only Kansas ranks lower, at 327 per 100,000 people.)
Turner also announced the two new deaths, for a total of 14 involving Houston residents. One was a white man in his 80s who died March 27. The other was a Hispanic woman in her 70s who died April 2. Like all who have died with the virus so far in Houston, they had underlying health conditions.
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Why is it necessary to tell that one victim was white and one was Hispanic. and why is "white" not capitalized like "Hispanic".....racism, prejudice or because the Mayor of Houston is "Black" and sees everything as racial.
“Houston, we have a problem “.
Nevermind Houston. Word is that the City Commission is looking at this as a full-blown disaster, sales tax revenue is down by historic levels and apparently the city is looking at selling a city park to developers, accepting advertising for all COB vehicles, including police and selling its newer hydroelectric Metro buses. Let's hope Mayor Mendez becomes a firebrand like Pat Ahumada.
The joke is over.
Todos ahi que su houston esto, o que houston esta mejor que el valle. wiri wifi wawa wa. Pinche houston no hay nada bueno mas que trafico y mas trafico..Ay ta, go to houston. for those folks that never have left the valley.
Trump: “One of the reasons I do these news conferences is because if I didn’t, they would believe fake news, and we can’t let them believe fake news."
At which point all of the collected media in the room should say, "Oh, give us a break, you lying sack of bovine excrement!"
And push back on every single lie in real time. Don't give in. Commit civil disobedience. Let the cameras show media being escorted from the room by security.
This guy is no president.
When we look back at history, what we would have seen from Barack Obama back through Harry Truman is an American president calling for an international convention on pandemics, about how we bring the world together, how American leadership can drive toward a solution. Instead, we have the American delegation saying no to a communique because they won’t use the word ‘Wuhan flu.’
So it’s theater of the absurd that tops off every evening at the 6 o’clock follies where the American people are lied to nonstop, where he sows confusion, where he sows division, where he attacks the people who need help the most. We’ve never seen a dereliction of duty, we’ve never seen a level of unfitness for command, we have never seen a president more visibly failing hour by hour to meet the moment, to meet the test of history than we’re seeing with Donald John Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
And I think by the time we get to the end of it, someone who will be universally regarded by historians, along with [James] Buchanan, the 15th president, who prefaced the Civil War, as the worst commander in chief in American history.
They used lower-case "white man" because it was an old codger, and who cares about them anyway? We live in a youth-oriented, throwaway society, btw.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well!
Let's keep hating President Trump and then blame him for being hateful and blame him for not uniting our country. This will make us seem like good people. We have no choice because we can't beat him in the election.
He's so qualified for president that he can run PUB, that's how good this pendejo is!
Why is everybody outside there must be 1000 cars on 802 and another on Central Blvd and don't forget the piojos there are 2000 cars and bikes and on foot. What is going on?
and the funeral people are going goodie goodie goodie
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