COVID-19 pandemic in Texas
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| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Texas, U.S |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| Index case | San Antonio |
| Arrival date | January 2020 |
| Confirmed cases | 64,287[1] |
| Hospitalized cases | 1,756 (current) |
| Recovered | 42,423 (estimate) |
Deaths | 1,672 |
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The COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. state of Texas in March 2020. As of June 4, 2020, Texas public health officials have reported 69,920 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,767 deaths.[2]
Timeline
March
Houston outbreak
March 4: Public health officials in Fort Bend County, a suburb of Houston, reported a presumptive positive test result in a man in his 70s who had returned in late February from travel to Egypt. The man was hospitalized in stable condition. The new case was the first in Texas outside of US nationals evacuated from Hubei Province and the Diamond Princess cruise ship to Joint Base San Antonio in January 2020.[3][4]
March 5: Public health officials in Houston reported four confirmed cases in two men and two women from Harris County. Both cases are related to the same recent travel group to Egypt.[5] One woman is a staff member at Rice University.[6]
March 6: Three new cases were reported in the Houston area, one in Houston and two in Fort Bend County. All cases were part of a group that had traveled together to Egypt. This brought the Texas cases to eight, all in the Houston region.[7][8]
Dallas outbreak
On March 9, the Dallas suburb of Collin County reported 3 new presumptive cases.[9] The patients were a married couple and their 3-year-old child who attended Frisco ISD. The man tested positive for the virus after visiting Silicon Valley in late February.[10] The following day, Dallas County and Tarrant County both announced one presumptive case in each county, respectively, with both patients having recently traveled domestically out of state.[11]
Community spread
On March 11, Houston mayor Sylvester Turner announced cancellation of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo after declaring the outbreak as a public health emergency.[12] The first possible case of community spread in the Houston area was announced the same day, in a patient who had not traveled out of the state.[13] Lakewood Church in Houston, one of the nation's biggest mega-churches announced it was canceling in-person services till further notice.[14] On March 12, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins announced five additional positive cases with one of the cases being the first instance of community spread in the North Texas area.[15] A day later, the cities of Austin, San Antonio, and Tyler, as well as Bell and Galveston counties, announced confirmed cases. San Antonio also announced a ban of gatherings of 500 or more.[16]
March 13: University of Texas president Gregory L. Fenves announced that his wife Carmel had contracted Coronavirus after a trip to New York City. In an open letter to UT staff, faculty, and students, Fenves stated his wife began exhibiting flu-like symptoms after their trip, during which they attended several events with alumni and students, and was tested positive for COVID-19. Both Fenves, his wife, and an additional family member are in self-isolation, and the president has advised community members to follow CDC preventive measures against the spread of the virus.[17] The first case of COVID-19 was also reported and confirmed in El Paso.[18]
March 16: Matagorda County officials announced the second positive case of coronavirus in Matagorda County. The patient, a man in his late 90s, died Sunday evening at Matagorda Regional Medical Center with symptoms consistent with COVID-19.[19]
The second death in Texas was reported on March 17, of a resident of a retirement community in Arlington who died on Sunday, March 15.[20]
March 17: The third death in Texas was reported on March 18, of a resident in Plano who died in a local hospital on March 17.[21]
March 26: Bell County, Texas announced its first death, a woman in her 80s.[22]
April
April 1: 44 college students from the University of Texas at Austin tested positive for coronavirus. They are part of a group of 70 college students who had chartered a flight for spring break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Some of the students took commercial flights back home to the US, causing health and other officials to have to try to track down who else may have been infected, via contact tracing.[23][24]
April 3: Sixty residents and nine staff members at a San Antonio nursing home have been infected with COVID-19. One person has died. Nationally, there have been 450 nursing home deaths.[25]
April 17: Governor Abbott issued Executive Order GA-17, establishing the Governor's Strike Force to Open Texas, for advisement from political and medical leaders on "safely and strategically restarting and revitalizing all aspects of the Lone Star State". That process began with revised social distancing protocols that now allowed delivery and pick-up services starting the 24th, under Abbott's previous executive order, GA-16, also issued on the 17th. Also on this day, Governor Abbott ordered the closure of all public and private schools for the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic year, including all institutions of higher education. [26]
April 27: On April 26 Moore County had become the first in Texas with more than 1/100 of population infected. Of all infections added in Texas on that day, 1/14 came from this county having 1/1400 part of Texas population. On April 27 the infection rate for Moore county became 1.3%, this is 15 times higher than the average value detected for Texas.[27] Governor Abbott announced the first of three phases in a plan to open Texas up from the lockdown, allowing restaurants, retail businesses, museums, and other locations to open up at 25% occupant capacity starting May 1st, albeit under new minimum standard health protocols.[28] The Governor's Office also released The Governor's Report to Open Texas, outlining the three-phase plan to end the lockdown and giving guidance on the newly released social protocols from the Governor and chief officers of the Strike Force.[29]
May
May 1: After a decline in the infection expansion about 10 days ago, the number of new detected infections exceeded 1,000 on April 30 for the first time after April 10, and became higher on May 1. The registered number of "active" infections exceeded 14,000. A new highest number of daily covid-related death, 50, was recorded on April 30.[30]
May 8: The total number of recorded COVID-related deaths exceeded 1,000. The registered number of active infections became higher than 16,000.
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May 13: Potter county became the first large (>100,000 population) county with recorded infection rate >1% (actually became >1.1% because of fast increasing), while adjacent smaller Moore county is approaching 3%. Recorded average covid-related death rate in Texas is still low at about 1/25,000 of total population, but some smaller counties (as the mentioned Moore and especially Washington) already demonstrate statistically meaningful rates being higher by a factor of ten or more.[31]
May 15: New highest daily numbers for new infections (after previous highest on April 10) and covid-related death cases (after previous highest on April 30) were recorded. The registered number of currently active infections became higher than 18000.[31] This represents a new increase in infection growth and an increase in probability of infection for more people coming in contact with infected persons.
May 16: Largest single day jump in new cases (1,801 new cases). The Amarillo area (Potter and Randall counties) recorded 734 new cases due to targeted testing of employees at meat plants in the area. Gov. Abbot previously ordered a Surge Response Team (SRT) to Amarillo to begin testing in high risk areas (such as meat packing facilities).[32][33]
May 28: New highest daily number of new infections as reported by Texas HHS.
May 31: Again a new official highest record of detected new daily infections. Moore county is officially above 3% of positive cases among total population.
Government response
On March 2, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County both declared a "local state of disaster and a public health emergency" after an individual was mistakenly released from quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio by the CDC before a third test for coronavirus returned a positive result.[34] The city subsequently petitioned the US government to extend the quarantine of US nationals at Joint Base San Antonio; the petition was denied by Judge Xavier Rodriguez in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.[35][36] Both the city of Dallas and Dallas County have declared a "local disaster of public health emergency".[37]
On March 13, Governor Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster for all counties in the state. He also announced the first drive-through testing facility in San Antonio, and will expand to other cities across the state.[38][39][40]
On March 22, Governor Abbott directed health care professionals to postpone surgeries that are not "medically necessary", as well as suspend regulations to allow hospitals to have more than one patient in a room.[41] Controversially, Attorney General Ken Paxton later indicated that this included abortions (except for the life or health of the mother).[42] Abbott also stated that there would not be any statewide stay-at-home order anytime soon, due to the fact that more than 200 counties did not have any cases.[41][43]
Abbott left the decision to the local government to set stricter guidelines. Two hours later, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins ordered residents of Dallas County to shelter in place beginning 11:59 p.m. on the following day.[44] A day later on March 23, Bell,[45] Bexar,[46] Brazos,[47] Cameron,[48] Hunt,[49] McLennan,[50] Stephens[51] counties and the city of Forney,[52] issued a shelter in place for their communities. Collin,[53] Galveston,[54] Harris,[55] Travis[46][56] and Williamson[56] counties issued same measures on March 24. However, Collin County had more relaxed guidelines for their shelter in place order. Collin County's order stated that all businesses are essential and would be allowed to remain open as long as they followed physical distancing guidelines.[57]
On March 30, Governor Abbott issued a state-wide executive order, instructing residents to minimize any gatherings or in-person contact with people who are not part of the same household, and remain home unless conducting essential activities and services. Abbott did not specifically use the term "stay-at-home order" or "shelter-in-place" to describe the order, arguing that they were either misnomers (shelter-in-place usually referring to emergency situations) or did not adequately reflect the goal of the order. The order exempts places of worship as essential services (subject to social distancing), but Abbott still recommended that remote services be conducted instead.[58]
The abortion ban (which does not apply to "medically necessary" procedures) was challenged in court and rapidly appealed. By April 10, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ban, but with an exception for pregnancies approaching the point where an abortion cannot be postponed because it would soon no longer be allowed.[59]
On April 17, Abbott announced that beginning April 24, hospitals would be allowed to perform a limited number of elective surgeries, retail outlets would be allowed to resume service to offer curbside pickup directly to shoppers' vehicles for phone-based and online orders ("retail to go"), and state parks would be allowed to re-open beginning April 19 (although visitors are required to wear face masks and maintain social distancing).[60]
On May 20, 2020, on the heels of several anti-lockdown protests at state capitals,[61][62] protestors opposed to vaccinations gathered at the Texas state capital in Austin[63] to echo Plandemic's anti-vaccination theme and demand a lifting of state orders closing businesses. Promoted on Facebook, the event page for the Texas protest titled "You Can't Close America" says the purpose of the rally is to "show the globalists, including eugenicist Bill Gates, the World Health Organization and the CDC, that they can’t suspend freedom in America at a mere whim, and that they can’t force us to wear face masks like the people in Communist China." The rally features signs that condemn COVID-19 shelter in place and business lockdown orders as "tyranny." One woman holds up an American flag and a poster featuring a crossed-out surgical mask, with the words underneath "My body, my choice, Trump 2020" in a reference to the pro-choice abortion rights movement. In response, Paul Offit, the director the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told a reporter that "when you’re exposed to someone who is unvaccinated, that takes away your personal freedom. You’re infringing on other people’s choice when you forego vaccination". Fox News defended Gates, noting that he has contributed more than $100 million to COVID-19 relief efforts.[64]
Economic impact
Effect on businesses
On March 13, Six Flags (based in Texas) suspended operations to all their properties (12) nationwide as well as in Mexico, that were operating in the month of March, until the end of the month; these include the two Texas parks, Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Six Flags Over Texas. On March 30, the closure was extended to all of their properties.[65] Sea World San Antonio announced plans to close from March 16 to April 1, along with all Schlitterbahn waterparks,[66] the parks have delayed the closure. Both Schlitterbahn waterparks announced they'd be the first major water park in the state to reopen in mid-June.[67] The two Texas Six Flags parks will reopen the parks on June 19.[68][69]
On March 14, H-E-B announced that all of their stores across the state will reduce open hours, to help restock items. This also includes their pharmacies and Central Market locations.[70] The announcement comes a day after the company announced that its Houston area stores would be the only locations to implement changes to their operations.[71] A month later, H-E-B expanded their store hours across the state (closer to normal store hours), as supply availability has improved.[72][73]
As of May 26th, KVUE reported that "The Texas Restaurant Association estimates that 6% of restaurants in Austin have shut down for good during the pandemic, and that number is estimated to be at 12% statewide".[74] A number of these restaurants that closed had been famous and well-established in the state for decades. Some notable ones include Highland Park Cafeteria, a Dallas restaurant that had served comfort food for 95 years, and Threadgill's, an 81-year old tavern that was the first post-Prohibition Austin business with a beer license before becoming a restaurant in 1981 (Janis Joplin started her music career here).[75][76]
Event cancellations
For the first time in the event's history, South by Southwest was cancelled as a result of local health concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.[77][78] The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo cancelled the rest of the event on March 11, that was slated to run until March 22. It was confirmed that a resident from Montgomery County, Texas that was tested positive, attended the BBQ cook off at the rodeo on February 28.[79] The attendance for the rodeo on February 28, was 77,632, with 73,433 of the visitors went to the "World Championship Barb-B-Que Contest," where that person attended.[80] The FIRST Robotics World Championship, slated to occur in Houston around mid-April, was canceled due to the Coronavirus, along with all the other FIRST Robotics Competitions in Texas. The Championship is one of the world's largest gatherings in competitive robotics.[81]
After the announcement of the ban of gatherings of over 500 people on March 13 (in San Antonio), Fiesta San Antonio postponed their event to November 2020, that was originally slated for mid-April.[82]
Schools
Houston Independent School District, the state's largest school district, is among dozens of school districts extending their spring break, to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.[83][84] The closures are not without precedent, as many schools closed for two weeks during the 2009 H1N1 flu when Houston experienced a major outbreak.[83] Among the closures of school districts and universities across the state, Governor Greg Abbott waived all State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) testing for the 2019–20 school year for public grade schools on March 16.[85]
On March 19, Governor Abbott issued an executive order that closed schools statewide until at least April 3.[86] On March 31, the Governor announced that schools in the state will continue to stay closed until May 4.[87] On April 17, Greg Abbott said that Texas public schools would be closed for the remainder of the 2019–20 school year and that schools will continue to offer distance learning.[88]
Impact on sports
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Most of the state's sports teams were affected. Several leagues began postponing or suspending their seasons starting March 12. Major League Baseball cancelled the remainder of spring training on that date, and on March 16, they announced that the season will be postponed indefinitely, after the recommendations from the CDC to restrict events of more than 50 people for the next eight weeks, affecting the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros.[89] Also on March 12, the National Basketball Association announced the season would be suspended for 30 days, affecting the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs.[90] In the National Hockey League, the season was suspended for an indefinite amount of time, affecting the Dallas Stars.[91] In Major League Soccer the Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas also had their season suspended, starting March 12.[92]
In college sports, the National Collegiate Athletic Association cancelled all winter and spring tournaments, most notably the Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments, affecting colleges and universities statewide.[93] On March 16, the National Junior College Athletic Association also canceled the remainder of the winter seasons as well as the spring seasons.[94]
Statistics
| County[a] | Confirmed Cases[b][c] |
Probable Cases[b][d] |
Total Cases[b] |
Deaths[e] | Vaccine[f] | Population[g] | Total Cases / 100k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 254 / 254 | 6,677,164 | 1,831,040 | 8,508,204 | 92,378 | 18,206,131 | 29,001,602 | 29,337.0 |
| Anderson | 9,090 | 2,299 | 11,389 | 258 | 24,776 | 59,025 | 19,295.2 |
| Andrews | 2,701 | 1,798 | 4,499 | 75 | 8,366 | 19,279 | 23,336.3 |
| Angelina | 10,525 | 3,056 | 13,581 | 507 | 40,498 | 90,989 | 14,926.0 |
| Aransas | 4,234 | 1,543 | 5,777 | 98 | 14,327 | 23,710 | 24,365.2 |
| Archer | 2,309 | 327 | 2,636 | 31 | 4,235 | 9,228 | 28,565.2 |
| Armstrong | 398 | 252 | 650 | 10 | 727 | 2,001 | 32,483.8 |
| Atascosa | 12,266 | 3,195 | 15,461 | 241 | 26,017 | 50,898 | 30,376.4 |
| Austin | 5,577 | 1,636 | 7,213 | 84 | 15,048 | 32,067 | 22,493.5 |
| Bailey | 1,037 | 704 | 1,741 | 40 | 2,723 | 7,113 | 24,476.3 |
| Bandera | 2,972 | 1,254 | 4,226 | 81 | 10,399 | 23,129 | 18,271.4 |
| Bastrop | 18,954 | 7,279 | 26,233 | 256 | 52,553 | 89,564 | 29,289.7 |
| Baylor | 386 | 524 | 910 | 33 | 1,476 | 3,751 | 24,260.2 |
| Bee | 7,702 | 2,778 | 10,480 | 156 | 16,815 | 33,471 | 31,310.7 |
| Bell | 70,902 | 18,858 | 89,760 | 948 | 163,770 | 359,255 | 24,985.0 |
| Bexar | 569,701 | 140,226 | 709,927 | 6,550 | 1,332,284 | 1,997,417 | 35,542.3 |
| Blanco | 1,905 | 1,384 | 3,289 | 37 | 6,296 | 12,159 | 27,049.9 |
| Borden | 88 | 29 | 117 | 2 | 201 | 680 | 17,205.9 |
| Bosque | 3,083 | 1,580 | 4,663 | 78 | 8,636 | 19,062 | 24,462.3 |
| Bowie | 13,447 | 10,911 | 24,358 | 458 | 34,101 | 96,380 | 25,272.9 |
| Brazoria | 99,414 | 20,268 | 119,682 | 1,046 | 225,677 | 380,439 | 31,458.9 |
| Brazos | 69,706 | 8,439 | 78,145 | 439 | 120,850 | 230,789 | 33,859.9 |
| Brewster | 1,198 | 326 | 1,524 | 34 | 5,160 | 9,092 | 16,762.0 |
| Briscoe | 436 | 134 | 570 | 8 | 641 | 1,572 | 36,259.5 |
| Brooks | 1,405 | 809 | 2,214 | 55 | 7,326 | 7,115 | 31,117.4 |
| Brown | 7,103 | 8,896 | 15,999 | 240 | 16,131 | 38,993 | 41,030.4 |
| Burleson | 4,387 | 1,317 | 5,704 | 68 | 9,030 | 18,373 | 31,045.6 |
| Burnet | 10,628 | 2,665 | 13,293 | 182 | 26,188 | 48,716 | 27,286.7 |
| Caldwell | 14,568 | 2,647 | 17,215 | 187 | 24,898 | 43,199 | 39,850.5 |
| Calhoun | 4,511 | 2,565 | 7,076 | 55 | 11,533 | 22,028 | 32,122.8 |
| Callahan | 1,685 | 1,874 | 3,559 | 80 | 5,347 | 14,070 | 25,295.0 |
| Cameron | 94,870 | 38,028 | 132,898 | 2,133 | 353,438 | 426,210 | 31,181.3 |
| Camp | 2,058 | 1,526 | 3,584 | 80 | 5,698 | 12,914 | 27,752.8 |
| Carson | 1,002 | 555 | 1,557 | 38 | 2,102 | 5,951 | 26,163.7 |
| Cass | 5,663 | 3,389 | 9,052 | 206 | 10,607 | 30,451 | 29,726.4 |
| Castro | 2,208 | 524 | 2,732 | 49 | 3,277 | 7,380 | 37,019.0 |
| Chambers | 10,227 | 3,126 | 13,353 | 74 | 22,126 | 44,298 | 30,143.6 |
| Cherokee | 5,166 | 4,082 | 9,248 | 261 | 21,783 | 53,539 | 17,273.4 |
| Childress | 2,984 | 227 | 3,211 | 35 | 3,710 | 7,038 | 45,623.8 |
| Clay | 2,135 | 372 | 2,507 | 44 | 4,495 | 10,351 | 24,219.9 |
| Cochran | 709 | 281 | 990 | 25 | 1,115 | 2,904 | 34,090.9 |
| Coke | 466 | 691 | 1,157 | 21 | 1,305 | 3,390 | 34,129.8 |
| Coleman | 1,299 | 751 | 2,050 | 77 | 3,133 | 8,191 | 25,027.5 |
| Collin | 196,703 | 85,176 | 281,879 | 1,635 | 717,594 | 1,033,046 | 27,286.2 |
| Collingsworth | 546 | 374 | 920 | 17 | 975 | 2,853 | 32,246.8 |
| Colorado | 3,582 | 1,067 | 4,649 | 68 | 11,460 | 22,283 | 20,863.4 |
| Comal | 30,396 | 16,742 | 47,138 | 587 | 98,076 | 156,317 | 30,155.4 |
| Comanche | 2,784 | 1,453 | 4,237 | 85 | 6,263 | 13,878 | 30,530.3 |
| Concho | 633 | 711 | 1,344 | 14 | 1,396 | 2,716 | 49,484.5 |
| Cooke | 6,556 | 1,915 | 8,471 | 147 | 16,022 | 40,477 | 20,927.9 |
| Coryell | 17,012 | 4,414 | 21,426 | 235 | 33,076 | 75,137 | 28,515.9 |
| Cottle | 344 | 54 | 398 | 9 | 518 | 1,354 | 29,394.4 |
| Crane | 542 | 1,144 | 1,686 | 25 | 1,765 | 4,678 | 36,041.0 |
| Crockett | 299 | 1,270 | 1,569 | 21 | 1,637 | 3,461 | 45,333.7 |
| Crosby | 1,105 | 995 | 2,100 | 46 | 2,590 | 5,702 | 36,829.2 |
| Culberson | 536 | 43 | 579 | 14 | 1,164 | 2,211 | 26,187.2 |
| Dallam | 1,502 | 567 | 2,069 | 45 | 3,125 | 7,053 | 29,335.0 |
| Dallas | 577,772 | 118,809 | 696,581 | 7,173 | 1,608,328 | 2,647,576 | 26,310.1 |
| Dawson | 1,564 | 1,903 | 3,467 | 102 | 4,482 | 12,720 | 27,256.3 |
| Deaf Smith | 4,374 | 1,916 | 6,290 | 119 | 8,044 | 19,572 | 32,137.7 |
| Delta | 6,931 | 2,990 | 9,921 | 28 | 1,825 | 5,295 | 187,365.4 |
| Denton | 207,788 | 62,531 | 270,319 | 1,461 | 561,167 | 886,563 | 30,490.7 |
| DeWitt | 4,459 | 715 | 5,174 | 116 | 9,380 | 20,611 | 25,103.1 |
| Dickens | 242 | 263 | 505 | 16 | 724 | 2,119 | 23,832.0 |
| Dimmit | 5,166 | 1,080 | 6,246 | 52 | 7,551 | 9,709 | 64,332.1 |
| Donley | 493 | 786 | 1,279 | 26 | 1,215 | 3,228 | 39,622.1 |
| Duval | 3,169 | 1,279 | 4,448 | 74 | 7,387 | 10,907 | 40,781.1 |
| Eastland | 2,390 | 1,039 | 3,429 | 120 | 6,716 | 18,307 | 18,730.5 |
| Ector | 25,156 | 21,319 | 46,475 | 740 | 71,818 | 167,383 | 27,765.7 |
| Edwards | 368 | 197 | 565 | 12 | 789 | 1,959 | 28,841.2 |
| El Paso | 217,845 | 28,772 | 246,617 | 3,921 | 663,923 | 852,224 | 28,938.0 |
| Ellis | 44,146 | 13,912 | 58,058 | 620 | 101,497 | 188,464 | 30,805.9 |
| Erath | 6,723 | 3,242 | 9,965 | 132 | 16,221 | 43,042 | 23,151.8 |
| Falls | 3,560 | 782 | 4,342 | 72 | 8,199 | 17,401 | 24,952.6 |
| Fannin | 4,926 | 3,303 | 8,229 | 194 | 15,038 | 36,230 | 22,713.2 |
| Fayette | 3,478 | 1,853 | 5,331 | 119 | 13,341 | 26,328 | 20,248.4 |
| Fisher | 534 | 176 | 710 | 28 | 1,411 | 3,859 | 18,398.5 |
| Floyd | 1,328 | 874 | 2,202 | 50 | 2,544 | 5,535 | 39,783.2 |
| Foard | 183 | 55 | 238 | 12 | 519 | 1,139 | 20,895.5 |
| Fort Bend | 216,337 | 39,671 | 256,008 | 1,260 | 602,229 | 805,788 | 31,771.1 |
| Franklin | 1,655 | 1,018 | 2,673 | 46 | 4,067 | 10,791 | 24,770.6 |
| Freestone | 2,333 | 1,764 | 4,097 | 88 | 8,091 | 20,621 | 19,868.1 |
| Frio | 6,358 | 1,624 | 7,982 | 95 | 14,437 | 19,103 | 41,784.0 |
| Gaines | 1,018 | 739 | 1,757 | 85 | 4,723 | 21,170 | 8,299.5 |
| Galveston | 106,366 | 10,341 | 116,707 | 910 | 211,456 | 339,931 | 34,332.6 |
| Garza | 649 | 726 | 1,375 | 31 | 3,239 | 6,115 | 22,485.7 |
| Gillespie | 3,632 | 2,609 | 6,241 | 120 | 15,004 | 27,375 | 22,798.2 |
| Glasscock | 97 | 150 | 247 | 3 | 618 | 1,369 | 18,042.4 |
| Goliad | 1,341 | 430 | 1,771 | 34 | 3,354 | 8,007 | 22,118.1 |
| Gonzales | 3,625 | 1,660 | 5,285 | 107 | 10,912 | 20,769 | 25,446.6 |
| Gray | 4,062 | 2,727 | 6,789 | 134 | 8,867 | 21,930 | 30,957.6 |
| Grayson | 24,536 | 7,756 | 32,292 | 688 | 60,937 | 135,612 | 23,812.1 |
| Gregg | 12,812 | 9,824 | 22,636 | 730 | 59,374 | 126,116 | 17,948.6 |
| Grimes | 8,115 | 1,442 | 9,557 | 129 | 16,391 | 29,466 | 32,434.0 |
| Guadalupe | 30,041 | 15,106 | 45,147 | 433 | 94,142 | 166,961 | 27,040.4 |
| Hale | 5,703 | 1,686 | 7,389 | 251 | 14,479 | 33,165 | 22,279.5 |
| Hall | 958 | 268 | 1,226 | 24 | 1,260 | 3,017 | 40,636.4 |
| Hamilton | 1,708 | 375 | 2,083 | 36 | 4,286 | 8,641 | 24,106.0 |
| Hansford | 730 | 1,525 | 2,255 | 33 | 2,248 | 5,327 | 42,331.5 |
| Hardeman | 580 | 65 | 645 | 23 | 1,801 | 3,856 | 16,727.2 |
| Hardin | 7,585 | 7,762 | 15,347 | 262 | 22,263 | 59,178 | 25,933.6 |
| Harris | 1,171,407 | 148,960 | 1,320,367 | 11,691 | 3,044,041 | 4,698,655 | 28,101.0 |
| Harrison | 7,403 | 8,359 | 15,762 | 239 | 26,979 | 68,559 | 22,990.4 |
| Hartley | 877 | 411 | 1,288 | 3 | 2,686 | 5,861 | 21,975.8 |
| Haskell | 547 | 601 | 1,148 | 41 | 2,188 | 5,628 | 20,398.0 |
| Hays | 68,832 | 9,314 | 78,146 | 478 | 150,316 | 228,364 | 34,219.9 |
| Hemphill | 1,215 | 222 | 1,437 | 10 | 1,647 | 3,838 | 37,441.4 |
| Henderson | 13,992 | 3,836 | 17,828 | 448 | 33,991 | 82,989 | 21,482.4 |
| Hidalgo | 180,525 | 89,139 | 269,664 | 3,702 | 732,628 | 886,294 | 30,426.0 |
| Hill | 6,652 | 2,812 | 9,464 | 207 | 15,313 | 37,069 | 25,530.8 |
| Hockley | 7,415 | 1,409 | 8,824 | 169 | 10,137 | 22,862 | 38,596.8 |
| Hood | 9,862 | 5,076 | 14,938 | 302 | 30,501 | 60,984 | 24,494.9 |
| Hopkins | 5,541 | 3,158 | 8,699 | 193 | 15,164 | 37,312 | 23,314.2 |
| Houston | 2,455 | 2,458 | 4,913 | 121 | 9,876 | 23,381 | 21,012.8 |
| Howard | 4,205 | 4,166 | 8,371 | 196 | 12,795 | 36,294 | 23,064.4 |
| Hudspeth | 1,141 | 236 | 1,377 | 18 | 3,643 | 3,680 | 37,418.5 |
| Hunt | 13,841 | 6,476 | 20,317 | 379 | 43,121 | 97,842 | 20,765.1 |
| Hutchinson | 5,315 | 1,490 | 6,805 | 149 | 7,429 | 20,550 | 33,114.4 |
| Irion | 301 | 329 | 630 | 3 | 673 | 1,592 | 39,572.9 |
| Jack | 1,485 | 212 | 1,697 | 32 | 3,624 | 9,265 | 18,316.2 |
| Jackson | 2,992 | 916 | 3,908 | 64 | 6,751 | 14,561 | 26,838.8 |
| Jasper | 5,647 | 3,751 | 9,398 | 202 | 13,502 | 35,726 | 26,305.8 |
| Jeff Davis | 214 | 65 | 279 | 10 | 1,195 | 2,411 | 11,572.0 |
| Jefferson | 56,563 | 8,773 | 65,336 | 882 | 127,337 | 251,590 | 25,969.2 |
| Jim Hogg | 826 | 2,981 | 3,807 | 23 | 3,146 | 5,092 | 74,764.3 |
| Jim Wells | 10,181 | 4,427 | 14,608 | 226 | 23,320 | 40,204 | 36,334.7 |
| Johnson | 40,107 | 12,874 | 52,981 | 792 | 82,705 | 174,777 | 30,313.5 |
| Jones | 4,088 | 2,113 | 6,201 | 97 | 8,802 | 19,697 | 31,482.0 |
| Karnes | 5,462 | 1,082 | 6,544 | 75 | 8,820 | 15,508 | 42,197.6 |
| Kaufman | 32,735 | 9,749 | 42,484 | 563 | 73,775 | 135,410 | 31,374.3 |
| Kendall | 5,897 | 4,106 | 10,003 | 135 | 30,344 | 47,284 | 21,155.1 |
| Kenedy | 57 | 48 | 105 | 2 | 216 | 390 | 26,923.1 |
| Kent | 84 | 144 | 228 | 4 | 289 | 759 | 30,039.5 |
| Kerr | 4,895 | 5,907 | 10,802 | 206 | 26,095 | 52,829 | 20,447.1 |
| Kimble | 502 | 493 | 995 | 16 | 1,860 | 4,604 | 21,611.6 |
| King | 39 | 21 | 60 | 0 | 48 | 274 | 21,897.8 |
| Kinney | 649 | 125 | 774 | 14 | 1,879 | 3,575 | 21,650.3 |
| Kleberg | 5,956 | 3,698 | 9,654 | 155 | 19,346 | 32,135 | 30,042.0 |
| Knox | 354 | 274 | 628 | 25 | 1,441 | 3,683 | 17,051.3 |
| La Salle | 1,816 | 719 | 2,535 | 50 | 4,833 | 7,426 | 34,136.8 |
| Lamar | 4,309 | 7,156 | 11,465 | 282 | 19,678 | 50,440 | 22,730.0 |
| Lamb | 3,500 | 1,249 | 4,749 | 128 | 5,599 | 12,565 | 37,795.5 |
| Lampasas | 5,024 | 923 | 5,947 | 97 | 10,175 | 21,326 | 27,886.1 |
| Lavaca | 2,931 | 2,155 | 5,086 | 124 | 9,197 | 20,437 | 24,886.2 |
| Lee | 2,445 | 2,741 | 5,186 | 65 | 8,230 | 17,411 | 29,785.8 |
| Leon | 2,736 | 1,209 | 3,945 | 95 | 6,998 | 17,588 | 22,430.1 |
| Liberty | 17,265 | 6,076 | 23,341 | 420 | 40,850 | 91,098 | 25,621.9 |
| Limestone | 3,937 | 1,863 | 5,800 | 137 | 9,397 | 23,709 | 24,463.3 |
| Lipscomb | 571 | 204 | 775 | 17 | 957 | 3,208 | 24,158.4 |
| Live Oak | 1,621 | 772 | 2,393 | 43 | 4,163 | 12,164 | 19,672.8 |
| Llano | 3,197 | 1,748 | 4,945 | 102 | 11,610 | 21,784 | 22,700.1 |
| Loving | 116 | 294 | 410 | 1 | 32 | 96 | 427,083.3 |
| Lubbock | 66,920 | 47,708 | 114,628 | 1,402 | 152,050 | 308,880 | 37,110.9 |
| Lynn | 1,240 | 467 | 1,707 | 41 | 2,379 | 6,151 | 27,751.6 |
| Madison | 2,795 | 1,153 | 3,948 | 59 | 6,377 | 14,188 | 27,826.3 |
| Marion | 1,109 | 958 | 2,067 | 62 | 4,120 | 9,760 | 21,178.3 |
| Martin | 888 | 523 | 1,411 | 26 | 1,779 | 5,731 | 24,620.5 |
| Mason | 379 | 744 | 1,123 | 13 | 2,168 | 4,301 | 26,110.2 |
| Matagorda | 8,460 | 2,153 | 10,613 | 185 | 17,640 | 36,292 | 29,243.4 |
| Maverick | 23,031 | 2,414 | 25,445 | 481 | 57,557 | 57,888 | 43,955.6 |
| McCulloch | 910 | 1,124 | 2,034 | 52 | 3,152 | 8,323 | 24,438.3 |
| McLennan | 50,627 | 23,342 | 73,969 | 976 | 134,900 | 255,400 | 28,962.0 |
| McMullen | 156 | 44 | 200 | 10 | 331 | 749 | 26,702.3 |
| Medina | 8,412 | 4,135 | 12,547 | 213 | 28,588 | 53,794 | 23,324.2 |
| Menard | 283 | 383 | 666 | 13 | 1,132 | 2,128 | 31,297.0 |
| Midland | 22,125 | 26,637 | 48,762 | 520 | 76,735 | 176,814 | 27,578.1 |
| Milam | 3,653 | 2,568 | 6,221 | 109 | 11,602 | 25,185 | 24,701.2 |
| Mills | 1,131 | 387 | 1,518 | 40 | 2,147 | 4,899 | 30,985.9 |
| Mitchell | 1,914 | 242 | 2,156 | 52 | 3,162 | 8,531 | 25,272.5 |
| Montague | 4,492 | 838 | 5,330 | 136 | 7,200 | 19,695 | 27,062.7 |
| Montgomery | 129,646 | 43,374 | 173,020 | 1,394 | 354,116 | 604,391 | 28,627.2 |
| Moore | 3,817 | 2,176 | 5,993 | 116 | 9,756 | 21,046 | 28,475.7 |
| Morris | 1,848 | 1,159 | 3,007 | 76 | 5,631 | 12,428 | 24,195.4 |
| Motley | 141 | 159 | 300 | 13 | 341 | 1,205 | 24,896.3 |
| Nacogdoches | 10,546 | 4,559 | 15,105 | 280 | 29,974 | 65,027 | 23,228.8 |
| Navarro | 7,137 | 7,793 | 14,930 | 234 | 23,881 | 52,013 | 28,704.4 |
| Newton | 1,254 | 750 | 2,004 | 64 | 3,384 | 13,317 | 15,048.4 |
| Nolan | 2,368 | 626 | 2,994 | 108 | 6,485 | 14,256 | 21,001.7 |
| Nueces | 73,478 | 27,556 | 101,034 | 1,360 | 212,457 | 363,049 | 27,829.3 |
| Ochiltree | 2,219 | 419 | 2,638 | 50 | 3,802 | 10,219 | 25,814.7 |
| Oldham | 302 | 314 | 616 | 6 | 764 | 2,126 | 28,974.6 |
| Orange | 9,010 | 9,595 | 18,605 | 381 | 30,660 | 82,461 | 22,562.2 |
| Palo Pinto | 6,989 | 995 | 7,984 | 159 | 11,252 | 29,008 | 27,523.4 |
| Panola | 3,188 | 2,609 | 5,797 | 139 | 8,577 | 24,586 | 23,578.5 |
| Parker | 31,768 | 8,333 | 40,101 | 494 | 66,693 | 141,080 | 28,424.3 |
| Parmer | 1,510 | 1,068 | 2,578 | 54 | 3,915 | 9,501 | 27,134.0 |
| Pecos | 2,874 | 840 | 3,714 | 72 | 9,581 | 15,052 | 24,674.5 |
| Polk | 7,054 | 1,456 | 8,510 | 266 | 22,810 | 50,293 | 16,920.8 |
| Potter | 26,509 | 7,854 | 34,363 | 675 | 54,035 | 116,063 | 29,607.2 |
| Presidio | 904 | 370 | 1,274 | 42 | 6,539 | 6,535 | 19,495.0 |
| Rains | 1,236 | 866 | 2,102 | 62 | 4,775 | 12,416 | 16,929.8 |
| Randall | 22,052 | 9,266 | 31,318 | 517 | 63,900 | 139,034 | 22,525.4 |
| Reagan | 313 | 698 | 1,011 | 16 | 1,571 | 3,836 | 26,355.6 |
| Real | 653 | 337 | 990 | 25 | 1,702 | 3,499 | 28,293.8 |
| Red River | 1,178 | 1,595 | 2,773 | 75 | 4,873 | 11,649 | 23,804.6 |
| Reeves | 3,172 | 2,768 | 5,940 | 77 | 14,233 | 16,154 | 36,771.1 |
| Refugio | 1,437 | 924 | 2,361 | 42 | 3,816 | 6,871 | 34,361.8 |
| Roberts | 161 | 30 | 191 | 2 | 265 | 851 | 22,444.2 |
| Robertson | 3,859 | 1,139 | 4,998 | 79 | 7,943 | 17,708 | 28,224.5 |
| Rockwall | 22,340 | 9,696 | 32,036 | 286 | 63,543 | 103,363 | 30,993.7 |
| Runnels | 1,229 | 1,465 | 2,694 | 73 | 4,612 | 10,121 | 26,617.9 |
| Rusk | 7,065 | 5,498 | 12,563 | 244 | 22,433 | 54,526 | 23,040.4 |
| Sabine | 1,013 | 666 | 1,679 | 94 | 3,896 | 10,917 | 15,379.7 |
| San Augustine | 786 | 385 | 1,171 | 47 | 3,610 | 8,458 | 13,844.9 |
| San Jacinto | 4,931 | 1,659 | 6,590 | 111 | 9,973 | 29,506 | 22,334.4 |
| San Patricio | 12,294 | 4,468 | 16,762 | 366 | 38,237 | 66,688 | 25,135.0 |
| San Saba | 954 | 572 | 1,526 | 40 | 2,460 | 6,227 | 24,506.2 |
| Schleicher | 311 | 366 | 677 | 9 | 1,301 | 2,822 | 23,990.1 |
| Scurry | 5,751 | 379 | 6,130 | 108 | 8,006 | 16,697 | 36,713.2 |
| Shackelford | 238 | 888 | 1,126 | 12 | 1,207 | 3,382 | 33,293.9 |
| Shelby | 3,338 | 2,081 | 5,419 | 139 | 9,732 | 24,249 | 22,347.3 |
| Sherman | 301 | 136 | 437 | 16 | 1,029 | 3,077 | 14,202.1 |
| Smith | 31,409 | 18,514 | 49,923 | 1,023 | 110,859 | 231,516 | 21,563.5 |
| Somervell | 1,440 | 813 | 2,253 | 37 | 4,136 | 9,569 | 23,544.8 |
| Starr | 17,580 | 8,077 | 25,657 | 392 | 73,239 | 63,690 | 40,284.2 |
| Stephens | 1,194 | 1,123 | 2,317 | 53 | 3,440 | 9,556 | 24,246.5 |
| Sterling | 119 | 221 | 340 | 9 | 503 | 1,254 | 27,113.2 |
| Stonewall | 86 | 336 | 422 | 7 | 601 | 1,382 | 30,535.5 |
| Sutton | 446 | 550 | 996 | 14 | 1,663 | 3,664 | 27,183.4 |
| Swisher | 1,373 | 1,280 | 2,653 | 34 | 2,989 | 7,439 | 35,663.4 |
| Tarrant | 536,241 | 106,125 | 642,366 | 5,622 | 1,221,060 | 2,060,239 | 31,179.2 |
| Taylor | 15,573 | 27,262 | 42,835 | 780 | 64,830 | 139,044 | 30,806.8 |
| Terrell | 110 | 46 | 156 | 3 | 410 | 794 | 19,647.4 |
| Terry | 926 | 1,387 | 2,313 | 88 | 5,175 | 12,544 | 18,439.1 |
| Throckmorton | 97 | 202 | 299 | 10 | 607 | 1,448 | 20,649.2 |
| Titus | 6,201 | 4,015 | 10,216 | 139 | 14,082 | 33,690 | 30,323.5 |
| Tom Green | 12,080 | 31,264 | 43,344 | 491 | 56,880 | 117,613 | 36,853.1 |
| Travis | 267,631 | 56,056 | 323,687 | 1,865 | 917,117 | 1,273,554 | 25,416.0 |
| Trinity | 2,189 | 1,105 | 3,294 | 81 | 6,301 | 14,530 | 22,670.3 |
| Tyler | 2,647 | 2,972 | 5,619 | 91 | 8,233 | 22,735 | 24,715.2 |
| Upshur | 3,824 | 5,169 | 8,993 | 197 | 14,785 | 41,204 | 21,825.6 |
| Upton | 178 | 814 | 992 | 19 | 1,539 | 3,619 | 27,410.9 |
| Uvalde | 10,189 | 1,213 | 11,402 | 152 | 14,688 | 26,743 | 42,635.5 |
| Val Verde | 14,271 | 1,107 | 15,378 | 313 | 36,395 | 50,853 | 30,240.1 |
| Van Zandt | 7,167 | 4,404 | 11,571 | 302 | 21,732 | 56,376 | 20,524.7 |
| Victoria | 20,134 | 5,233 | 25,367 | 431 | 45,978 | 91,329 | 27,775.4 |
| Walker | 21,330 | 3,455 | 24,785 | 216 | 36,422 | 75,949 | 32,633.7 |
| Waller | 9,564 | 2,137 | 11,701 | 114 | 24,447 | 54,822 | 21,343.6 |
| Ward | 2,434 | 892 | 3,326 | 51 | 4,369 | 11,530 | 28,846.5 |
| Washington | 8,909 | 1,760 | 10,669 | 157 | 18,756 | 35,570 | 29,994.4 |
| Webb | 96,877 | 10,801 | 107,678 | 1,092 | 310,958 | 280,775 | 38,350.3 |
| Wharton | 8,222 | 3,809 | 12,031 | 230 | 22,279 | 41,224 | 29,184.5 |
| Wheeler | 985 | 339 | 1,324 | 24 | 2,114 | 5,178 | 25,569.7 |
| Wichita | 38,357 | 2,905 | 41,262 | 761 | 61,649 | 132,920 | 31,042.7 |
| Wilbarger | 3,244 | 951 | 4,195 | 94 | 6,705 | 12,465 | 33,654.2 |
| Willacy | 7,226 | 1,952 | 9,178 | 139 | 15,068 | 21,566 | 42,557.7 |
| Williamson | 136,427 | 35,811 | 172,238 | 952 | 418,728 | 589,216 | 29,231.7 |
| Wilson | 8,202 | 4,395 | 12,597 | 168 | 27,130 | 52,127 | 24,166.0 |
| Winkler | 1,584 | 642 | 2,226 | 36 | 3,085 | 7,990 | 27,859.8 |
| Wise | 16,370 | 3,223 | 19,593 | 287 | 27,928 | 69,609 | 28,147.2 |
| Wood | 5,320 | 3,098 | 8,418 | 311 | 20,488 | 45,084 | 18,671.8 |
| Yoakum | 764 | 577 | 1,341 | 44 | 3,526 | 8,829 | 15,188.6 |
| Young | 3,785 | 710 | 4,495 | 103 | 7,516 | 19,029 | 23,621.8 |
| Zapata | 2,464 | 1,982 | 4,446 | 57 | 8,613 | 14,196 | 31,318.7 |
| Zavala | 3,500 | 895 | 4,395 | 70 | 6,181 | 12,116 | 36,274.3 |
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See also
- Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United States – for impact on the country
- COVID-19 pandemic – for impact on other countries
Notes
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External links
- Coronavirus information from the Texas Department of State Health Services
- List of COVID-19-related county orders from the Texas Association of Counties
- COVID 19 emergency ordinances as of April 13 from the Texas Oil & Gas Association
