El Paso, Tx had a severe surge in COVID-19 cases, prompting U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) to contact the Assistant Secretary of Defense Kenneth Rapuano requesting the William Beaumont Army Medical Center be opened to help relieve the pressure on El Paso area medical facilities that have ran out of bed space.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and El Paso Mayor Dee Margo supported the Texas Department of Emergency Management (TDEM) and their request previously to open the same Medical Center.

TDEM will be establishing an alternate care site at the El Paso Convention and Performing Arts Center with fifty beds and capable to expand up to one hundred beds if necessary.

Two thirty-five person Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, a Critical Care Team and the Regional Emergency Coordinators from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to El Paso and the Texas State Operations Center to assist with the coordination of federal assets to combat COVID-19 in El Paso were deployed Sunday, October 25, 2020.

Visit g.is/1WDSrb to view the Health Department’s numbers, and all the information available.

Always remember that the numbers are what were reported from the state, and there are many factors included in counting numbers.
The website states that, “All data are provisional and subject to change.”

Also, make sure and pay attention to the tab. If you check there are a variety of tabs on the website ranging from positive cases in total, recoveries, deaths, actives cases, and much more information.

The following are the counts for positive test received in regards to COVID-19 testing in the five-county region.

As a note, the Texas Department of State Health Services COVID-19 dashboard is considered to be, “provisional and subject to change.”

Always follow the numbers officials report.

Numbers shown below are the current ACTIVE cases only.

–Freestone County – 36 (419 recovered) (Taken from the State of Texas Department of Health Services Case Count dated Monday, October 26, 2020)

–Navarro County – 83 (1,796 recovered) (Taken from the Navarro County Emergency Management website dated Friday, October 23, 2020)

–Limestone County – 66 (591 recovered) (Taken from the State of Texas Department of Health Services Case Count dated Monday, October 26, 2020)

–Leon County – 67 (264 recovered) (Taken from the State of Texas Department of Health Services Case Count dated Monday, October 26, 2020)

–Anderson County – 86 (2,821 recovered) (Taken from the State of Texas Department of Health Services Case Count dated Monday, October 26, 2020)

The inmate unit list has been shortened to only include the prisons in Freestone County and surrounding counties.

For more information on other units visit tdcj.texas.gov/covid-19/mac_dashboard.html and select desktop or mobile.

Current numbers of confirmed active case inmates in the State of Texas as of Friday, October 23, 2020 are as follows :

–Beto -0 inmate and 4 employees
–Boyd – 1 inmates and 1 employees
–Coffield – 1 inmates and 1 employees
–Gurney – 2 inmate and 3 employees
–Michael – 0 inmates and 4 employees
–Powledge – 0 inmates and 1 employees