Want to know how full Tarrant County hospitals are? Check out this interactive map
The rise in hospitalized patients with COVID reached 1,386 on Friday in Tarrant County hospitals, the second highest occupancy rate since the start of the pandemic.
The county’s pandemic high for COVID-related hospitalizations was 1,528 on Jan. 6, 2021. The third highest was 1,226 on Sep. 5, 2021.
According to Tarrant County COVID-19 statistics, 4,169 hospital beds are occupied out of its 4,633 capacity, leaving 464 beds available as of Friday.
Tarrant County reported 12 COVID deaths and 7,587 new cases on Friday.
Use the map below to see the 7-day average occupancy and bed availability of hospitals in Tarrant County over the week of 1/7/2022 to 1/13/2022. Tap each dot to check the hospital name and see the averages for occupancy, ICU occupancy, total occupancy, total available beds and available ICU beds. The colors of the dots tell you their average total occupancy.
COVID cases started a steep rise over the Christmas holiday and the demand for testing increased around the same time as the more contagious omicron variant spread across North Texas, the Star-Telegram previously reported.
In Texas, omicron currently makes up 98% of total COVID-19 cases, compared to 0.6% delta, according to CDC data ending Jan. 8.
“From what we’ve seen, it just is more infectious than any other variant we’ve seen,” Dr. Shane Fernando, clinical epidemiologist at the UNT Health Science Center. “We’re looking at it as a general across the board infectious agent that is increasing in all populations, and all demographics.”
And it could get worse. According to a UT Southwestern report, daily COVID-19 cases could reach 8,000 by the end of January. Hospitalizations in the county are projected to continue to increase rapidly in near term and could double by the end of January, far exceeding previous peaks. There could be more than 2,500 concurrent hospitalizations.
This story was originally published January 21, 2022 at 1:44 PM.
