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Bexar County has a confirmed case

According to this source Bexar County (San Antonio) now has a confirmed case that isn't shown on the map (this recent one isn't connected to the evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship or Wuhan). Can someone update it? Thanks 108.34.54.127 (talk) 06:02, 14 March 2020 (UTC) ^[1][reply]

I don't disagree with you, but the 39 number in the infobox is from the DSHS and the DSHS does not have Bexar County listed with any cases. We need to have a stable source and the DSHS is are best option, so until the DSHS has a case listed in Bexar County we don't add it to the map. [1] Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 06:34, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ KXAN: First travel-related case of COVID-19 confirmed in San Antonio; Fiesta San Antonio moved to November

Bexar was added in the March 14th map.Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 20:59, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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where is the effective timeline table like most other states have?

the timeline table should be a part of this page, to bring visibility to the growth rate of confirmed cases.

since the growth is accelerating in texas exponentially, raising awareness of this fact is paramount.

the data sources for the state of texas are lacking. does anyone from the community have trended source data? Johnson.eric.d (talk) 06:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!! Johnson.eric.d (talk) 04:58, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cabo44

I'm as angry at the #cabo44 as most people, but I feel like the section about them in the timeline is somewhat WP:UNDUE. It could be written in sentence. "44 UT students test positive for coronavirus after vacationing in Cabo San Lucas for spring break, despite warnings from public officials." The whole thing about the contact tracing is unnecessary; that part is WP:ROUTINE. Also, the sources estimate 70; it's not a firm number. I would change it myself, but I currently attend UT so it might be a COI. I'm hoping some other editors read this and let me know what they think. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 07:54, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Disclosure: paid editing

I was paid by my employer (Google) while doing the edits which added and edited the table of county-level statistics. -- Tal Cohen (talk) 16:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Construction of Graph

There must be a master template somewhere? The stacking of the data in this graph runs contrary to managerial (educational) utility. The key data is how many people are currently classified as infected. (Hospitalized would be better, but that's out of reach.) Infected should be at the bottom, then recovered, then dead. The most important stat is whether infected is going up or down, and this can only be "seen" if infected is on the bottom. If that bar is going up, new infections exceed deaths and cures. If the bar is going down, one can readily see if deaths or recoveries is pushing it down more. As presently drawn, the only easy number to get is deaths (which is so small would be better on its own chart if that's the number you want) and total people ever infected - which without a "per population" denominator is of little practical utility. The principal measure of the current health of the community is number currently infected. Should be the bottom part of each day's chart. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Douglasswm (talk • contribs) 02:26, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Governor knows will increase increase coronavirus cases, add?

The governor of Texas: “every scientific and medical report shows” reopening states leads to an increase in coronavirus cases in those states. Gov. Greg Abbott told state lawmakers during a private phone call that “the fact of the matter is pretty much every scientific and medical report shows that whenever you have a reopening […] it actually will lead to an increase and spread.” He added: “The more that you have people out there, the greater the possibility is for transmission. So, the goal never has been to get transmission down to zero. It never can be.” A spokesperson confirmed the audio from the call was authentic.

In context:

Alice Miranda Ollstein and Adam Cancryn, Trump touted reopening. Privately, his team sounded alarms. Tapes of conference calls of FEMA and HHS officials across the country reveal widespread worries about new waves of Covid-19 infections. 6 May Politico

X1\ (talk) 05:57, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

First case

Does any new documentation exist on the first case in Texas?

This article lists the originally reported March 4 date, but I am aware of multiple people—myself included—who ostensibly contracted the illness at least a month earlier without travel. I can say from personal experience that testing was unavailable during this time, as my requests even during three emergency room visits and two GP visits were all denied due to the total lack of testing kits, even after explicitly testing negative for bacterial and other viral infections. Surely some more recent epidemiological research has been conducted? — C M B J 22:20, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Data out of date

Data is out of date. For example, Montgomery County numbers are several days behind as of June 10. 47.221.69.159 (talk) 04:37, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple uncited sources in May and June timeline

It seems people are putting multiple descriptions in the the May and June section of the timeline without citations. Are we allowed to remove anything that doesn't have a citation if we feel like its not accurate? --Jackhannah123456 (talk) 21:43, 12 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Counts in DeWitt county

A reader reported that the case count for DeWitt County seemed very high at 1632, given news reports talking about a number more like 28.

I looked at the source identified in the table: Source And, if I'm reading it correctly, the case count the number of deaths are: 26 and 1.

I made a change to the template, but someone may wish to double check if they are more familiar with the source.--S Philbrick (Talk) 18:59, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I did not verify the population which sounded reasonable. S Philbrick (Talk) 19:01, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Denton/Delta

The two have been confused in population and the link in the big county list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.189.109.151 (talk) 06:41, 17 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

COVID in Texas Public Schools

I am suggesting that the information about the impact of COVID on k-12 schools should be updated to include the rates of covid amongst the students & staff since their reopening Jaydahol (talk) 22:00, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Page too long

This page has become too long, see WP:PEIS. The result is that the references list is omitted. Perhaps my additions to the cases by county template are responsible. I'll try reducing the number columns there. EphemeralErrata (talk) 00:55, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh. Everything's big in Texas, including this Wikipedia page. Removing columns from the county list didn't help. EphemeralErrata (talk) 01:06, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As a temporary measure, I replaced the county list with a link to the county list. EphemeralErrata (talk) 08:06, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've shortened the lede to address the {{Lead too long}} tag that had been placed there. I'm also strongly considering spinning off much of the timeline section into its own, if you don't mind. Love of Corey (talk) 06:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The post-expand include size of Template:COVID-19 pandemic data/United States/Texas medical cases chart is 928,158 which is 44% of the 2,097,152 byte limit. This issue keeps getting worse as another day of data is added to this template each day. The template only shows the most recent 15 days by default, though you can see a lot more if you click the year and month buttons at the top. I'm going to comment out the older data as a stopgap fix to get the page within the limit. See also Talk:COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio#Reflist is broken. – wbm1058 (talk) 02:11, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] KXAN: First travel-related case of COVID-19 confirmed in San Antonio; Fiesta San Antonio moved to November

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