This story has been updated.
Local fitness officials raised San Antonio’s COVID-19 threat point to a peak this week after warning of a “silent surge” just two weeks ago.
That increase continues, according to data from the city’s Metropolitan Health District, which documents an increase in new cases and hospitalizations.
As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, san Antonio Metropolitan Health District Chief Claude Jacob suggested to others who will be meeting with friends and a circle of family to stick to COVID-19 prevention strategies: I’ve been exposed or have symptoms, and I’m up to date on the COVID-19 vaccine and boosters. “
Dr. Bryan Alsip, medical director of University Health, said the curve is starting to climb again, “but it’s not such a steep increase. It doesn’t look like past waves, not yet, so I think we have to wait and see. “How is it going.
The actual number of COVID-19 cases is suspected to be much higher than officially reported, as most people do not report positive home tests to any health authority.
Metro Health does not collect home control data, a spokeswoman said. Some immediate control kits come with a way to talk about the effects through a mobile app, he noted, and suggested that anyone self-monitor to report the positive effects to their health care provider.
Alsip echoed Metro Health’s prevention strategies and noted that most people have stopped wearing masks. of greater protection”.
He also warned that COVID-19 may now come with a constellation of symptoms beyond the fever, cough and shortness of breath that characterized the disease at the beginning of the pandemic.
Anyone with allergy or bloodless symptoms, or gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, gets tested, he said.
While at the beginning of the pandemic, other people were asked to self-isolate for 10 days or more, those days the symptoms would likely only last a day or two, Alsip said, meaning isolation doesn’t have to last as long.
But, he added, since many other people now have mild symptoms, other people are more likely to come into contact with others before realizing they are contagious and want to isolate themselves, which promotes spread in the community.
COVID-19 cases in Bexar County will most likely include omicron subvariants BA. 4 and BA. 5, reflecting national trends; up to part of all the instances in the national point come from these subvariants. In April, the BA. 2 subvariant accounted for more than a portion of the instances at the local level.
Covid-19 home tests are now widely available; other people can request loose evidence from the federal government. Metro Health also maintains a list of network testing sites.
Although the backlog of COVID-19 cases is beginning to be reflected in hospitalizations at University Health and other hospitals, beds remain available.
On Thursday, Metro Health’s COVID-19 dashboard reported a seven-day moving average of cases at 880, with 815 new cases reported. reported in the past seven days; the cumulative number of deaths reported for Bexar County since the beginning of the pandemic is 5,339.
Health continues to urge citizens to get vaccinated and strengthened.
A list of ephemeral vaccination clinics can be obtained online or by calling 311; choose option 8. No appointment is necessary. Metro Health continues to offer a $100 H-E-B gift card while supplies last for those who have not yet been fully vaccinated.
University Health continues to offer single COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 6 months to 5 years on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:30 a. m. m. a 3:30 p. m. in the city center of the Robert B. Green campus. PodemosHacerloSA. com.