SIX NEW COVID-19 CASES BRING WASHINGTON CO. UP TO 251 TOTAL, 62 ACTIVE
The recent increase in COVID-19 cases continues in Washington County with an additional six cases reported Friday.
The six cases were confirmed in three men and three women, five from Brenham and one from the old Washington area, ranging in age from their teens to their 40s. This brings the county’s total case count to 251 and its active count to 62. Three patients are currently hospitalized, while 158 have recovered.
The county also reported another death related to COVID-19—the county’s 31st—but Washington County Joint Information Center (JIC) officials said they were only just notified by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) of the death, which occurred at the end of May.
Numbers at the Brenham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (BNRC) are unchanged from Wednesday’s new case report; two cases remain active of the 112 positive cases, made up of 87 residents and 25 employees. Neither of the active cases are hospitalized. The facility has had 86 patient recoveries and 24 deaths.
As of Friday, the county has performed an estimated 3,995 COVID-19 tests, 223 at the BNRC.
For the full list of COVID-19 cases in the county, go online to www.washingtoncountyems.net/covid-19-confirmed-cases. To visit the JIC website providing COVID-19 information, click here.
Wearing a raincoat keeps YOU dry! Wearing our masks keeps US all dry! Fear denotes intelligence. I am 80 I have reason to fear! But I still need food. Try compassion!
Get a move on residents! Wear a mask, social distance and wash your hands. Simple. Was in HEB a couple of times this week. Way too many people not wearing a mask. Really? I wear one to protect YOU. For crying out loud, do the same for me. If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem. Enuf said.
So your solution is to make everyone wear a mask so you feel safe? How about you stay home and that will make me feel safe. My freedom to not wear a mask doesn’t end where your fear begins. I’ll respect your decision to wear a mask and you respect mine to not.
Yes, Follow direction. I have been in Valero alot no one wearing mask and no sanitizer.
Mr Erick just because you have no symptoms doesn’t mean you don’t have it the virus it can be attacking your organs as well as others that don’t want to comply with these orders as you speak. Some people spit when they talk not on purpose but it happens do you want to be talking to someone with that problem and it mostly goes unoticed. Do you not have a family ( mom , sister, brother, father, wife) if by chance they catch it and it’s serious enough you can’t even be there with them for ( love, comfort, support, to ask questions when you’re loved one can’t. I pray for you sir cause God didn’t give us a spirit of fear but he did give us knowledge and wisdom.
I agree! But stupid IS as stupid DOES! The wearing of a face mask is a simple common sense courtesy done out of respect for others! It also helps in a small way to protect the SMART person that wears one.
Another solution is just round up those in Washington County who are too stupid to realize the importance of their health and the health of others by refusing to wear masks in public and put them in Covid Camps. Let them all get it and die off and the gene pull will be better for the rest of as a result with those idiots removed from the population. Also wouldn’t hurt if residents of Harris County and surrounding Houston area stayed in Covidville and stopped bringing it here .
Wow….. Animal farm anyone?
NO ONE wants to live with threat of Covid 19 virus continually. One of simplest ways to stem the transmission of the virus is to wear a mask in public indoor places. Lot of things that hurt us, we have learned or been mandated for our personal safety or for the common good for mankind’s health to take preventative measures or wear safety devices. Polio, measles, diptheria, hepatitis, rubella, mumps,pertussis are some diseases stopped by vaccinations. We readily put our children in car seats and we use safety belts in the car to help prevent serious injury or death. Before 1968 Seat belts were not required, many balked at being forced to strap into a car. Drinking and driving – MADD – mothers against drunk driving – brought attention to the numbers of fatalities due to driving under the influence – they got laws passed to try and lessen the deaths caused. You do not have a right to drive a vehicle if you have been drinking and are impaired – because that family with children you hit and killed had a right to live not die. We wear safety eyewear, shoewear, ear plugs for protection from going deaf, blind etc.
This virus that has disrupted every single person not only in Brenham or Washington county but literally every country in the entire world and the virus is being allowed to continue disrupting your life – one not the only but one way to slow it down, to give a chance of stopping it altogether is for us to distance and wear a mask in public indoor places. It does not hurt and it will be temporary if we all get behind it and do it.
18 whole states require face masks now. Cities and counties in Texas require face masks now – from Dallas area, San Antonio, Houston, Beaumont, College Station, Bryan to name a few. Children and young 20’s are now getting it – no longer just the elderly. Local Judge and officials please make the call.
So what if u get it? For most people your talking about catching a cold. We need herd immunity. But if you’re not one of the Heathy and semi-young, you better have on something better than a bandana for the sake of prevention. By the way, you’re disrespecting me and hurting my feelings if are putting on a fabric mask on my behalf. Don’t, that mask is really bad for you. So please show some empathy and don’t be so callous, be kind and Don’t dis.
Steve,
While I’m sure you are well-versed in your medical training and a highly respected member of the scientific community, based on your response, why then do any hospital workers and doctors need or want to wear face shields and masks?
If we “need herd immunity”, then wouldn’t it be better if all the doctors and healthcare workers contracted the virus and got over it easily instead of wearing those face masks and shields which are, too many, unnecessary, non-effective, and discriminatory? As well, since most people will not have any worse experience than “catching a cold”, then shouldn’t we strive to publicize those infected so we would know whom to gravitate to so that we could all more easily be infected?
Where’s the nuance? Where is the subtle but very meaningful difference in response to the virus that those of the left leaning persuasion seam to have no ability to grasp. This is not zero sum, nothing is in this case because you cannot contain this virus with fabric. It is not healthy for your, which means your actions are not helping but hurting. Just like every shallow policy of the left, poor outcomes and degrading long term effects all around. As one poster said, stupid is as stupid does and I’ll ad, as stupid wears.
Ask the question, how does a hospital do viral containment, it ain’t a cloth mask. I promise. Advocate for violating HIPAA is kind a violation of privacy and try not to worry, its’ bad for the health.
Steve I can assure you this feels a hell of a lot worse then catching a cold. I recovered from COVID19 and it was one of the worst experiences in my life. I’m 43 and in good health and I thought I was gonna die. I wouldn’t wish this virus on my worse enemy. If the mask prevents even just one person from catching it it’s worth it.
Steve, when you say that the cloth mask is actually hurting more than it helps what are you referencing? could you link the source of this information I am curious to read further into the claim. It has been my understanding that while a cloth mask is far from ideal it does provide more protection to you and those around you than not wearing a mask.