Positive COVID news: Region hits Day 6 under 15 percent
Thursday, the Trauma Service Area (TSA) that includes Henderson County hit its lowest COVID hospitalization level since before Thanksgiving. There were 412 COVID patients hospitalized in the TSA, which made up 13.36 percent of the staffed beds in the region (*These numbers are for the region, not just Henderson County. See explanation below.)
This marked the sixth consecutive day the TSA was below the 15 percent hospitalization mark.
The region was designated a "high hospitalization area" on Dec. 14. That designation will remain in place until the region sees seven consecutive days under the 15 percent mark. Lifting the designation will lift certain limitations on capacity for restaurants and many business establishments.
County Judge Wade McKinney gave a COVID-19 update during our weekly podcast, which you can listen to above. The COVID discussion start at the 23:09 mark.
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*Texas separates the state into 22 regions called Trauma Service Areas, or TSAs, for hospital data. Henderson County's region is designated TSA-G and includes Tyler/Longview. TSA-G includes about 960,000 people. The 15 percent is important because it is the level that defines "high hospitalizations" in any TSA.
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