Holidays and at-home tests mean omicron’s spread will be harder to track in Texas – By Cassandra Pollock and Chris Essig (Texas Tribune) / December 23, 2021
The Texas Department of State Health Services, which tracks the number of coronavirus vaccinations, cases, hospitalizations and deaths across the state, won’t be updating its daily dashboard Friday through Sunday both this week and next over the holidays.
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As the omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly, a real-time snapshot of how the virus is impacting Texans may be muddled over the next couple of weeks thanks to a lag in state data and soaring demand for at-home tests.
The Texas Department of State Health Services, which tracks the number of coronavirus vaccinations, cases, hospitalizations and deaths across the state, won’t be updating its daily dashboard Friday through Sunday both this week and next over the holidays.
The agency, which delayed reporting daily data over the Thanksgiving holiday in November, told The Texas Tribune it plans to backfill that data the following Monday in both cases.
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