[240] During a July 15 press conference, Turner announced 16 new COVID-19 related deaths as well as two new testing sites to handle the demand of residents seeking testing in response to the surging coronavirus cases, calling for a minimum 90 percent compliance from residents for the safety measures to be effective. Instead, the providers were required to request allocations of the second dose through the state government allocation system. [177] The mandated closures made Texas the first U.S. state to reinstate restrictions and closures after reopening. [88] On January 30, Abbott joined other state governors in a conference call with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, CDC Director Robert Redfield, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, and other health officials to discuss disease mitigation and prevention strategies. [1] By the end of March 2020, there were 3,266 known cases of COVID-19 and 41 fatalities in Texas, with nearly half of the state's counties reporting at least one case. Day cares, nursing homes, and prisons are asked to limit visitations. [73][74], The first positive test result for COVID-19 in Texas, outside of the evacuees quarantined at JBSA–Lackland from China and the Diamond Princess cruise ship, was reported by the DSHS on March 4 and involved a resident of Fort Bend County. The state of Texas confirmed its first case on February 13, 2020, among U.S. nationals evacuated from China to Joint Base San Antonio–Lackland beginning in early February; however, retrospective analyses have suggested a much earlier origin than previously thought. [246][247], On March 14, H-E-B announced that all of their stores across the state will reduce open hours, to help restock items. [40], On March 19, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Texas reported by the DSHS surpasses 100. "[173], At a news conference on May 5, Abbott indicated that his administration was emphasizing the state's COVID-19 positivity rate to evaluate the reopening of Texas businesses that formally began on May 1. [100][101] Local governments were authorized to delay local elections for 2020. When Abbott announced the reopening plan on April 27, the positive rate was 4.6 percent, while number of active cases, active infection spread among population, was growing, meaning the chance of infection was increasing. Greg Abbott orders Texas bars to close again and restaurants to reduce to 50% occupancy as coronavirus spreads", "Texas becomes the first state to reimpose restrictions after lifting stay-at-home order on April 30", "Gov. The COVID-19 pandemic in Texas is an ongoing viral pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). [27] Montgomery Independent School District in the Houston area and Alvarado Independent School District in the Dallas area become the first two public school districts in Texas to temporarily close classes over COVID-19, affecting approximately 12,400 students across 17 schools. [216][217] Both the city of Dallas and Dallas County have declared a "local disaster of public health emergency". [110][111] A three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit reaffirmed the ban on April 10. [1] The DSHS declares a public health disaster, marking the first such declaration since 1901. The number of confirmed fatalities eclipsed 100 on April 4 and 1,000 on May 9. [234] Nelson Wolff, the Bexar County judge, found a loophole in the order, and on June 17 issued an order fining businesses for allowing in customers without a mask. Abbott Imposes Statewide Restrictions For 2 Weeks, No Gatherings Of 10 Or More", "Gov. deadline. [259], 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. Greg Abbott says tens of thousands of Texans could test positive for COVID-19 within weeks", "Gov. [272], 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. "Texas Case Counts | COVID-19". However, Collin County had more relaxed guidelines for their shelter in place order. Abbott also indicates that respirator enforcement is within the purview of local officials. [63] Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo evaluates the county as having reached the highest threat level, indicating a "severe and uncontrolled level of COVID-19", and calls for the reinstatement of a stay-at-home order for the county in addition to prohibiting outdoor gatherings with more than 100 people in unincorporated parts of the county. [146] The de facto statewide stay-at-home order issued on March 19 was allowed to expire on April 30. [258] Several Texas bar owners filed a $10 million federal lawsuit stating that Abbott's order violates their constitutional rights; the order impacted restaurants with high alcohol sales as well, with the Texas Restaurant Association estimating that at least 1,500 restaurants that serve alcohol were forced to close, which displaced more than 35,000 employees. [120][121] The state government continued to relax regulations regarding medical protocols through April. [280] On June 23, UT Austin announced that it is waiving SAT and ACT testing requirements for high school students who apply for fall 2021 undergraduate admission to ensure that COVID-19 does not affect a student's ability to apply to the university. [144][145] Businesses in counties with five or fewer cases of COVID-19 were allowed to operate with increased occupancy once Phase I went into effect. Abbott issues social distancing order through April, closes Texas schools until May 4", "Governor Abbott, TDI Ask Health Insurance Providers To Waive Costs Associated With Coronavirus", "Coronavirus in Texas 3/19: Supreme Court halts evictions statewide", "Coronavirus in Texas 3/21: At least 325 cases reported in state; Gov. Abbott's plan to gradually reopen Texas businesses", "Republicans pressure Gov. [273][274] The closures are not without precedent, as many schools closed for two weeks during the 2009 H1N1 flu when Houston experienced a major outbreak. [198][199], The DSHS and TDEM initiated bi-weekly emergency planning meetings with other state agencies after February 27. [205] By February 2021 more than six hundred providers, including public health departments, vaccination hubs and retail pharmacies,[206] were administering first doses of the vaccines, reaching an allotment rate of approximately 400,000 doses per week. This traveling tale ... the embalmed corpse of McCurdy became a grim sideshow attraction throughout Texas, with people eager to see the famed criminal on display in funeral parlors and carnivals. [14][75] A total of 12 positive test results were reported in Fort Bend and Harris counties from travelers aboard the same ship. [276][277] On May 20, it was announced that UT-Austin would open the campus for the Fall semester of 2020, but would conduct all classes and tests remotely after Thanksgiving break. [84][85], In March 2020, The Texas Tribune described the state's pandemic response as a "patchwork system" characterized by its decentralized nature and reliance on locally enacted policies. [207] On February 4, 2021, the Texas Department of State Health Services reported that almost three million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were given to Texas residents. [264], 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 and eventually cancelled to April 2021. [18], On March 8, JBSA–Lackland receives around 100 evacuees from the cruise ship Grand Princess following a localized outbreak on board. [89] State officials from emergency management, health services, law enforcement, public schools, and universities also met the same morning to outline logistics and coronavirus information. [208], The vaccine rollout in Texas has faced numerous challenges, including uncertainties in record keeping, prioritization of the order in which groups were deemed eligible to receive the vaccine, and the availability of second doses for those who had already received the first dose. It is the oldest carnival sideshow organization in America and is currently owned and ran by Thomas Breen. [232], In Austin, where the South by Southwest festival was closed, many bar owners on Sixth Street boarded their windows to protect the stock they had amassed in preparation for the cancelled event. [29][30] The state's first mobile testing center for COVID-19 opens in San Antonio. [136] On April 7, roughly a month after the first non-evacuee case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Texas,[13] Patrick created a task force to plan out the recovery of the Texas economy should businesses and industries reopen. [198] A laboratory at Texas Tech University in Lubbock became the first laboratory to test for SARS-CoV-2 in Texas. Abbott Waiving Certain Licensing Regulations for Texas Pharmacy Workers", "Gov. This also includes their pharmacies and Central Market locations. Greg Abbott expresses regret over reopening Texas bars during coronavirus", "Positivity rate: Breaking down the metric Gov. [19][20] Rice University becomes the first university in the state to enact significant cancellations, suspending in-person classes and undergraduate labs during the week in response to an employee testing positive in connection with the viral cluster that traveled to Egypt. [163][168] As the reopening plan progressed, Republican legislators pressured Abbott to open additional business sectors and accelerate the reopening process while Democratic legislators criticized the governor for the rapid pace of reopening. Gyms and exercise facilities are allowed to reopen beginning May 18 while operating at quarter occupancy. [8][9][10] Testing capacity across the state remained extremely limited until after the first recorded cases were announced. [17] The state announces six public health laboratories within its Laboratory Response Network are capable of testing for COVID-19. [151] On June 25, Abbott enacted a "temporary pause" on the reopening of the state's economy following record increases in COVID-19 cases. Greg Abbott orders air travelers from New Orleans and around New York to self-quarantine", COVID-19 Healthcare Demand Projections: Austin, Texas, "Who's who on Texas Gov. [47][48] Abbott issued two additional executive orders relaxing COVID-19 restrictions: executive order GA-15 permitted licensed health care professionals and facilities to carry out elective medical procedures if they did not interfere with capacity provisioned for COVID-19, while executive order GA-16 allowed retail stores to deliver goods to customers beginning on April 24 as part of a "Retail-To-Go" model. "[186], Reaction to the announcement was mixed, with local and national government and health officials warning that the decision to ease all restrictions was premature,[187] and criticism towards the inability for local leaders to enforce health orders. [245] The two Texas Six Flags parks will reopen the parks on June 19. The case fatality rate (CFR) was 10.3 percent in Comal County; high CFR counties had "a higher proportion of non-Hispanic Black residents, adults aged 65 and older, and adults smoking, but lower number of ICU beds per 100,000 population, and number of primary care physicians per 1000 population. [45], On April 17, Abbott announces the start of his plan to reopen the Texas economy, citing a "semi-flattened curve" of COVID-19 cases in the state. In the movie, Selena is traveling to Monterrey, Mexico, for a press junket. North Texas had its Cinderella run end against Villanova but Baylor and Houston advanced to the Sweet 16 in the Men’s Tournament. The panel also consists of a medical team and a special advisory council. Warns of 'More Onerous Requirements, "As Texas hits all-time high in new COVID-19 cases, Gov. A street art campaign decorated the boarded businesses with art capturing the mood of lockdown. Counties with 20 or fewer active cases, children under 10, and persons with interfering medical conditions are allowed to opt-out of the order,[68] as well as people attending church, voting at polling places, or exercising outdoors. [209][210] As of January 18, 2021, vaccination providers who had received first dose allotments were not automatically being shipped equal quantities of second dose allotments. But when the promoter finds out her Spanish isn’t about-to-talk-to-a-whole-bunch-of-Mexicans-good, he flips his lid. In response, the governor said this had been the "plan all along", which some local officials doubted,[235] and that the judge "finally figured that out". Fox comments on coronavirus were morbid", "Texas Lt. Gov. ... Col. H.G. [112] Texas became the 21st state to activate its National Guard on March 17. [1] Counties that adopted shelter-in-place orders early showed a 19–26 percent decrease in COVID-19 case growth 2.5 weeks following the enactment of those orders according to an analysis published in the National Bureau of Economic Research. The state recorded its first death associated with the disease on March 17 in Matagorda County. [36] The Texas National Guard is activated, making Texas the 21st U.S. state to activate their National Guard; the security force is not yet deployed. [286] The XFL (Dallas Renegades and Houston Roughnecks) suspended play, and later filed for bankruptcy part-way into the rebooted league's inaugural season. [180][68] Texas Democratic Party spokesman Abhi Rahman released a statement saying that the order was "far too little, far too late," and criticized Abbot for "[leading] from behind. County where individuals with a positive case reside. Reported confirmed and probable cases. [68][69] Austin Mayor Adler issues an executive order, restricting gatherings with more than 10 people outside of child-care services, religious gatherings, and recreational sports. [21] The next day, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Texas reported by the DSHS surpasses 10. This angered some people in areas where people had been dying of COVID-19. NOTE: Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, many show routes have been altered. [134] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo commented on Twitter that "no one should be talking about social darwinism for the sake of the stock market. [248] 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. [185] The suit was filed the next day. Gov. Following a pronounced outbreak of COVID-19 in the state (with the weekly average of new cases increasing by 79 percent) and a large increase in hospitalizations, Abbott paused the reopening process on June 25. Greg Abbott resists calls for statewide shelter-in-place; moves to expand hospital capacity", "No Shelter in Place Order for Texas, Gov. She passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love. [3][4][5], As of April 3, 2021, vaccination is Texas lags behind the US average, with rates lower than in three of its four neighboring states, having administered 12,565,129 COVID-19 vaccine doses, equivalent to 43,334 doses per 100k of the state's population.[6][7]. The phase also provided a timetable for amusement parks, carnivals, and restaurants to begin increasing their capacity further out to June 18. [1] That same day, a resident in his 30s of Frisco in Collin County, a suburb of Dallas, received a presumptive positive test for the virus after recently traveling to Silicon Valley in California; he is the first case identified in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. [300], The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) banned prisoner visitation in 2020 and resumed it on March 15, 2021. [44][113] Abbott initially decided against statewide shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders due to the fact that more than 200 counties did not have any cases in mid-March. Greg Abbott moves to bolster number of practicing nurses", "Gov. Greg Abbott instructs state agencies to trim budgets by 5% to prepare for 'economic shock, "How'd we get here? Actual case numbers are probably higher. (Carnivals did a brisk trade in outlaw corpses to attract crowds in the early days of the 20th century.) Texas Department of State Health Services., Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 also reach a record high with 4,092. Abbott specifically avoided use of the terms "stay-at-home order" or "shelter-in-place" to describe the order, arguing that they were either misnomers (shelter-in-place usually referred to emergency situations) or did not adequately reflect the goal of the order. [268], On March 19, Abbott issued an executive order that closed schools statewide until at least April 3. In counties with at least 20 confirmed cases, the order mandated masks in enclosed public spaces and when social distancing was not feasible (subject to fines of up to $250 for multiple infractions). It has the third-highest number of deaths related to the virus, behind New York and California, and the 24th-highest count of deaths per capita. [160] Abbott stated in an interview with KVIA-TV in El Paso that "If I could go back and redo anything, it would probably would have been to slow down to opening bars, now seeing in the aftermath of how quickly the coronavirus spread in the bar setting. 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