Coronavirus Tracker: Bexar County hospitalizations have fallen every day for the last two weeks – KENS5.com

And the number of local COVID-19 patients has plummeted by 59% so far in February.

SAN ANTONIO COVID-19 hospitalizations continued to decrease in Bexar County over the weekend, and health authorities say 483 patients are receiving treatment in local hospitals as of Mondaythe fewest since Jan. 2 as the community continues to recover from January's spike.

The number of county patients has gone down by 29% over the last week while decreasing by 59% since the start of February. Of those 483 patients, 140 are in intensive care and 74 are using ventilators.

Meanwhile, just once in the last week has Metro Health tallied at least 1,000 new infections as the omicron variant loosens its grip on the San Antonio area. That includes 365 additional cases reported Monday, bringing the region's seven-day case average down to 452, a new low for 2022.

February has averaged 1,163 new infections a day, a far more manageable figure than the nearly 4,200 daily cases which were being reported in January. Just 685 infections were reported over the weekend, including a new 2022 low of 151 infections on Sunday.

Nearly 521,000 county residents have been diagnosed with the virus over the last two-plus years.

Four more virus-related deaths were reported Monday, bringing the local death toll to 5,231.

How Bexar County is trending

Vaccine Progress in Bexar County

The following numbers are provided by San Antonio Metro Health. A full breakdown can be found here.

The CDC states that "when a high percentage of the community is immune to a disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness)," that community will have reached herd immunity, "making the spread of this disease from person to person unlikely."

The City of San Antonio breaks down the vaccination rates by zip code on Metro Health's Vaccination Statistics page.

Coronavirus in Texas

The total number of coronavirus cases in the state since the pandemic began grew by 5,018 on Monday, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. That total includes 3,439 new confirmed cases and 1,579 new probable cases. More details can be found on this page.

Monday's figures bring the total number of Texans diagnosed with COVID-19 to more than 6.517 million.

An additional 19 Texans have died from virus complications, meanwhile, raising the statewide death toll to 82,435.

Coronavirus symptoms

The symptoms of coronavirus can be similar to the flu or a bad cold. Symptoms include fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Most healthy people will have mild symptoms. A study of more than 72,000 patients by the Centers for Disease Control in China showed 80 percent of the cases there were mild.

But infections can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and even death, according to the World Health Organization. Older people with underlying health conditions are most at risk.

Experts determined there was consistent evidence these conditions increase a person's risk, regardless of age:

Human coronaviruses are usually spread...

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City officials recommend getting a COVID-19 test if you experience fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, or diarrhea.

Here's a Testing Sites Locatorto help you find the testing location closest to you in San Antonio.

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