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Guadalupe County provides COVID-19 update
GRMC reports a break in treating COVID-19 patients, county works with schools in keeping them safe By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
got kids at each end. There are not 10 chairs around a table like there used to be. They’ve had to add different lunches to school so instead of one or two lunches, now it’s four or five lunches just to eliminate all the kids from all being at a single location. One school district has grouped all kids together so that grades 1 through 3 -- this is their stuff and then they have these three classrooms and these three classrooms are associated with these toys or if they go out to recess, it’s at this time and this is the group that is with (them). So, it is making it easier so if they do have an exposure at the school, that they can identify who was involved quicker and at a more rapid pace to let the parents know that your child may have been at risk or that your child was exposed to a child who had COVID so I think they have developed the plans that work,” said Pinder.
(Seguin) – Guadalupe County is sharing the latest information in the community’s efforts to combat COVID-19. During Tuesday’s meeting, Guadalupe County Commissioners were given the opportunity to respond to the latest news announcing zero hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Guadalupe Regional Medical Center. The county was notified of the information on Monday. The news comes after months of treating patients at GRMC. Patrick Pinder, the emergency management coordinator for Guadalupe County, says since June, GRMC had been experiencing a steady increase in patients with the highest number of patients being treated for COVID-19 being in the lower 40s. “You can see on July 6, the hospitalized at GRMC was at 43 and as of (Monday), it was zero. So, 263 active cases, 139 recovered and 40 deaths and you can see that those numbers have increased on the recovered and the hospitalized have gone down and those are kind of some of the numbers that we were watching. The deaths have increased because we are starting to get that information so you can see early on in July, we didn’t have as much detail from the state,” said Pinder. Again, as Pinder mentioned, Guadalupe County, expects that number of deaths to increase, due to the Texas Department of State Health Services webpage which is reporting 66 deaths. Officials say due to the lag in the reporting, the county’s overall total is behind.
Kutscher says the county, which has been working closely with school districts throughout this whole time, is sensitive to what they’ve had to endure especially while things keep changing. Guadalupe County Judge Kyle Kutscher says the latest news out at “That’s the frustration with some of the schools is with TEA (Texas Education Agency) and CDC guidelines and the state GRMC provides continued hope and healing. and others -- the information that they get is ever changing “It’s definitely good news about the hospital for sure. It’s every day and I understand that everybody is getting additional encouraging to see those kinds of numbers change,” said Kutscher. information but it’s really hard to create plans for thousands of kids going back to school when every four or six or 12 hours, In his report to the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court, they get something else and say well, we can’t do that anymore,” Pinder also shared a few updates regarding area school districts said Kutscher. and their handling or preparations for students amid the COVID-19 The latest numbers also show 17 new cases – with an additional pandemic. 164 probable cases which have also not been included in “I actually visited some of the campuses. Lunchrooms don’t look local numbers. The latest number of cases brings the overall like they used to anymore. You’ve got a six-foot table and you’ve confirmed total of positive cases to 2,202.
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