Dallas County Residents
| September 6, 2024 | 596,919 | 7,396 |
Note: Count does not include positive results from persons who reside out-of-state or outside of Dallas County.
For CDC week 36, DCHHS is reporting a cumulative total of 596,919 confirmed cases of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Dallas County. The cumulative total probable case count in Dallas County is 166,315. This week, a total of 257 cases of COVID-19 were reported within 14 days of specimen collection date, and a total of 7,396 deaths in Dallas County residents have lost their lives due to COVID-19 illness.
To date, a total of 5,455 cases with SARS-CoV-2 variants have been identified and investigated in residents of Dallas County, including 290 cases of B.1.1.7 (Alpha); 4 cases of B.1.351 (Beta); 1,900 cases of B.1.617.2 (Delta); 31 cases of B.1.427 (Epsilon); 29 cases of P.1 (Gamma); 15 cases of B.1.526 (Iota); 5 cases of C.37 (Lambda); 4 cases of B.1.621 (Mu); 3,163 cases of B.1.1.529 (Omicron); and 3 cases of P.2 (Zeta). Eight hundred and fifty-four cases have been hospitalized and 128 have died. Six hundred and eighteen COVID-19 variant cases were reinfections. Additionally, 2,847 people were considered fully vaccinated before contracting a COVID-19 variant.
For week 36, area hospital labs report steady numbers and proportions of respiratory specimens that are positive for other respiratory viruses by molecular tests: parainfluenza (2.3%), rhinovirus/enterovirus (50.9%), and RSV (0.6%).
There are currently 8 active long-term care facility outbreaks. There has been a total of 16,899 COVID-19 cases in long term care facilities: 10,468, residents and 6,431 staff members. Of these, 1,737 have been hospitalized and 1,168 have died of COVID.
There have been 0 outbreaks of COVID-19 in a congregate-living facility (e.g. homeless shelters, group homes, and halfway homes) reported within the past 30 days. A cumulative total of 1,459 residents and staff members (1,071 residents and 388 staff) in congregate-living facilities in Dallas have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
All Dallas County COVID-19 Updates and Information can be found here: https://www.dallascounty.org/covid-19/
All guidance documents can be found here: https://www.dallascounty.org/covid-19/guidance-health.php
COVID-19 Data Summaries for Dallas County, TX
This data is updated weekly by DCHHS
Click here to view DCHHS COVID-19 Weekly Summary
For DFW COVID-19 forecasting data, please see the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's model here.
