Dallas County added 1,214 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, as well as six deaths, as the number of total confirmed cases has surpassed 1 percent of the population. In addition, the county reported 105 new hospitalizations on Monday, its largest increase at 16 percent, The Dallas Morning News reports.
A poll from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas shows that Texans are not hopeful for a quick return to normalcy because of the pandemic. Less that half of those polled now say the federal and state government are handling the pandemic well, The Texas Tribune reports.
The number of people hospitalized for COVID-19 has more than doubled in the last weeks. On June 15, there were just 220 individuals hospitalized due to the virus, but there were 550 in the hospital on Monday, WFAA reports.
Physicians describe how the protests are not likely to have caused an uptick in new cases because they were mostly held outside, and the numbers don’t bear it out. Learn more with the Dallas Observer.
