DALLAS — Despite a rising number of COVID-19 cases, North Texas appears to have staved off an accompanying increase in hospitalizations that has plagued the rest of the country.
Dallas-Fort Worth typically lags a few weeks behind cities such as New York and Boston in COVID trends, but the area is now months behind other metro centers in hospitalization jumps. Hospitalizations nationwide had been increasing since early April, although they represented only a fraction of the hospitalizations seen during the omicron-variant surge that peaked in January.
North Texas hospitalizations have hovered between 150 and 200 since April, rising above 200 only in the last two weeks. The short-lived spike seems to be flattening already, with 267 patients on May 31 and 263 patients on June 7, according to Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council data.
