What is keeping the COVID-19 death rate in Texas low?
Published: July 1, 2020
Texas has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19.
Doctors say the numbers are moving in the wrong direction – except when it comes to deaths.
The death rate been declining statewide for the last month.
Data from Texas Health and Human Services showed the death rate in Texas peaked on May 26 at 2.7%.
“Our case fatality rate here in Harris County is a little over 1%, which is lower even than the rest of the state which is 1.6% as of today,” said Shreela Sharma, professor of epidemiology with UTHealth School of Public Health.
Dr. Sharma says the numbers are promising, but require context.
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