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Hospital patients with COVID-19 were occupying about 14.5% of the region’s staffed hospital beds Wednesday, according to state data.
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The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the Crossroads increased slightly Tuesday, according to state data.
The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
The number of active cases of COVID-19 in Victoria County increased to 257 on Monday as the local health department reported 65 new cases of the respiratory disease.
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Dozens of Crossroads hospitals, clinics, and health care providers have signed up to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as they become available, and some could be distributing them before the end of the year.
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Do not celebrate a traditional Thanksgiving this year, Victoria’s top health official told the public Thursday.
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Citizens Medical Center ended its fiscal year with a profit for the first time in five years, despite the crippling effect that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on hospitals and healthcare providers in much of the country.
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As COVID-19 case numbers rise again in the Crossroads, Refugio and Matagorda counties are offering free testing sites this week.
The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
Q: Who will be the first to get COVID-19 vaccines?
Victoria County reported another 35 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, bringing the county’s total number of active infections to 259.
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Madlyn Hilton stood on the sidewalk outside her house, watching as volunteers piled limbs that had been trimmed from her crepe myrtle tree.
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Two more Victoria County women have died from COVID-19, and dozens more cases of the disease have been reported as a nationwide surge in the virus continues locally.
The Refugio County Office of Emergency Management reported six new confirmed cases of COVID-19 Sunday, according to a county news release.
Victoria County public health officials reported 37 new COVID-19 cases Friday.
Victoria County public health officials reported seven new COVID-19 cases Saturday with 210 cases currently active.
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Port Lavaca’s hospital will be able to treat hundreds of patients a month who require drugs that are delivered via an IV infusion, as part of a partnership with Community Infusion Solutions.
The number of COVID-19 cases continued its steady rise in Victoria County on Thursday, and all Crossroads counties are now required to comply with the governor’s statewide mask order.
Q: Do masks with antiviral coating offer more protection?
The number of COVID-19 cases in the Crossroads continued to grow Wednesday as cases are spiking across the state and country.
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The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
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On Tuesday, Texas will lead a group of 20 states in a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law that remade the U.S. health care system and has provided health insurance coverage for thousands of people in the Crossroads and millions in Texas.
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Victoria County reported 54 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday.
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Victoria County public health officials reported 12 new coronavirus infections and 13 newly recovered residents Friday.
Q: Should I be wearing a mask while exercising outside?
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Victoria County has increased by 87% in the last week, as the nationwide increase in new virus cases becomes apparent in the Crossroads.
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Stanley Schweke sat in a circle of chairs, telling the people seated to his left and his right about how he’s coped with the stress of the pandemic, the comfort he gets from his miniature dachshund, Max, and how he works to accept difficult situations outside of his control.
Victoria County reported 24 new cases of COVID-19 and nine recoveries on Wednesday.
Q: Does weather affect spread of coronavirus outside?
The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
Q: I know a couple of people who tested positive for COVID-19. They were sick. They got antibiotics and 3 days later were out in public. Is this an appropriate amount of time to not be contagious?
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CUERO — Clay Pullin took deep breaths through a cloth face mask as he walked briskly on a treadmill, paying close attention to how taxing the movement was.
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An essential part of any Halloween costume this year is a cloth face mask, experts with Driscoll Children’s Hospital reminded the public Thursday in advance of the holiday.
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The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties.
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Augustine Ortiz was energetic and prepared as he walked up to Queen City Park to get a flu shot late Monday morning.
Although COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to rise statewide, the number of serious cases in the Crossroads continues to stay relatively steady for now.
Q: Can cloth masks be worn in the water?
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When the Rev. Felix Twumasi, 44, the associate pastor at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Schulenburg, received a call from Bishop Brendan Cahill about ministering to COVID-19 patients in Victoria, he had mixed emotions.
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Victoria trick-or-treaters got into the spirit a little early Thursday night at the Trunk-or-Treat on North Navarro Street.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the Golden Crescent remains low Thursday, even as the number of hospitalizations is increasing statewide, according to state health department data.
A Refugio County resident died of causes related to COVID-19, according to a Wednesday news release.
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