Texas' coronavirus positivity rate exceeds "warning flag" level Abbott set as businesses reopened

[TexasTowelie]

by Sarah R. Champagne and Shannon Najmabadi, Texas Tribune


Seven weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott began allowing businesses to reopen, Texas exceeded another one of the his key metrics Wednesday when the seven-day average positivity rate passed 10%, a level that Abbott previously called a “warning flag.”

The positivity rate is the ratio of positive cases to the number of tests conducted. The seven-day average has returned to 10.42%, a level the state hasn’t seen since mid-April, when Texas was under a stay-at-home order. In other words, for the past week, an average of about 1 out of 10 people tested for the coronavirus were positive.

It’s the latest in a streak of rapidly increasing indicators that have worried public health experts and local officials in Texas.

“The outlook is not good,” said Rebecca Fischer, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health. “We are in a super dire situation.”

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/24/texas-coronavirus-infection-rate/

*Over 5,000 cases served!

5,551 cases confirmed on Wednesday alone. 125,000 cases in Texas confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic.

[dalton99a]

1. Great job, Abbott

[duforsure]

2. Abbott and others here in Texas

From following trumps orders have made a disaster here in Texas even worse now with trumps reopening too soon policies. Being close to a national election this will devastate trump , Abbott , and many other Republicans this upcoming election for how badly they're mismanaging this deadly pandemic. They're failure is helping turn Texas bluer now, as more die and get sick from their incompetence, and corruption, and political malpractice, and trump sees it too.

[Javaman]

3. expect another spineless response from asshole abbott.

just another greedy ass repuke.