COVID-19

The numbers are still higher than we want to see, but it's getting much better

Mark your calendar for Tuesday, March 14, from 1 PM to 5 PM as the City of Texarkana, Texas Health Department, TAMU Health, and Clover Educational Consulting Group will once again host the free flu and COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Southwest Center.

We hope and pray that this is the last report we will ever give on area COVID-19 numbers. Checking out Trauma Service Area F from the charts below, we see significant improvement: 30 hospitalized, down 89 from 119 two weeks ago,  15 people are in ICU, down 17 from the last report. 10 are on ventilators down from 15 two weeks ago, and still 0 reported pediatric patients in our area. Let's all pray

Finally, we are seeing significant drops in case numbers across Texas and Arkansas, including deaths, and hospitalizations. Checking out Trauma Service Area F (see charts below) you will notice across-the-board improvement. 119 people hospitalized, down 47 from 166 last week, 32 are in ICU down 19 from the previous week. 15 are on ventilators down from 27 last week, and thankfully, we still have 0

Thank goodness, we didn't speak too soon about being over the hump, overall cases are on the way down and hospitalizations continue to drop in the Texarkana area. Trauma Service Area F (see charts below) is showing significant improvement across the board, with 166 people hospitalized, down 47 from 213 last week, 51 are in ICU down 9 from the previous week. 27 are on ventilators up from 22 last we

We may have spoken too soon about being over the hump, overall cases took a pretty big jump this week in Trauma Service Area F (that's us), however, hospitalizations are still trending downward. Trauma Service Area F (see charts below) includes Texarkana, New Boston, and Paris. The chart shows 213 people hospitalized, down from 244 last week, 60 are in ICU down 4 from the previous week. 22 are on

The short answer to "are we over the hump yet" is... yes, it appears so anyway. Case numbers and hospitalizations are trending downward this week in Texas and Arkansas, let's hope that's the way it continues to go. Just when we thought it was safe to begin reporting the current case numbers in Bowie County again, the state stopped reporting them. It's frustrating but we will report them

CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System has teamed up with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Kappa Xi Omega Chapter to host a free COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic, Monday, Jan. 17, all part of the Martin Luther King Jr Day of Service.