TSA COVID Hospitalizations Hit Record High
The Trauma Service Area (TSA) that includes Henderson County hit 547 hospitalized for COVID-19 on Friday, Dec. 25. That puts the region's COVID patients at 18.0 percent of staffed beds.
That is a record high for both statistics.
The TSA has now been at or above 15 percent COVID hospitalizations for 11 straight days. The region was designated a high hospitalizations area on Dec. 21.
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Notes to Know:
Gov. Greg Abbott's Executive Order GA-32, which went into effect Oct. 14, 2020, defines high hospitalizations as any Trauma Service Area (TSA) that has had seven consecutive days in which the number of COVID- 19 hospitalized patients as a percentage of total hospital capacity (staffed beds) exceeds 15 percent. After seven days at that level, any business in the TSA that is operating at 75 percent capacity must pull back to 50 percent.
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.