Those are very broad numbers for the whole state of Texas. Not every one has the same level of restrictions with in Texas. I dont know about California. With in Texas there are counties that have zero restaurants open, masks, etc and there are counties that are business as usual.
Counties can only open up under certain conditions that are set by the State, but ... local and county judges 'can' set their own standards tho the Gov may (and recently did) tell the citizens and business owners in those counties to ignore the local guidelines, as he did for Austin and Travis County over the New years holiday. The ones that are still closed down by State decree have yet not met the Texas gov's task force threshold regarding hospitalizations.
Gov. Greg Abbott directed restaurants to ignore local curfews — specifically in Travis County — that were implemented to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus on New Year's Eve.
If a county, once their eateries and/or other businesses are allowed to reopen to the 50% or 75% capacity again have increased numbers of hospitalizations, the state orders those counties back into restriction, either back to 50% or closed completely to dine in.
As far as I know, there are no longer any Tx counties in which the state has ordered restaurants completely closed down. I know ya can still dine in (sit down) in Harris County as long as the establishment has adequate room for specified spacing of tables. Why? Houston metroplex has a huge number of hospital beds available in Texas Medical Center as well as outlying hospitals..(some places around here have ignored the spacing requirement)
I pay more attention to active cases than overall cases. In some counties, such as mine, the hospitalization thing can be a distinct disadvantage. We have few hospital beds
within the county and it would be relatively easy for the hospitalization rate to exceed the 7 straight days of 15% of total Covid bed occupancy threshold, but as a low populated county, we are part of a 7 county trauma group of Deep East Texan counties with 262 hospital beds currently available. Trauma Region Service area H. This region includes Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Sabine, Tyler, Polk, and San Jacinto counties.
Deep East Texas RAC
TSA: H
Total Staffed Hospital Beds: 566
Available Hospital Beds: 81
Available ICU Beds: 5
Available Ventilators Beds: 85
COVID-19 Patients in Hospital: 168
2020 Population Estimates: 272,151
What happens when a county or region exceeds the 15% occupancy rate:
Updated: 5:21 PM CST December 3, 2020
An order by Gov. Greg Abbott is requiring restaurant capacity in North Texas to be reduced from 75% to 50%.
This order went into effect Thursday after the North Texas region reported its seventh straight day with COVID-19 patients making up at least 15% of the hospitals' total capacity.
Non-essential businesses like gyms and retail stores in the area also must abide by this order.
Gov. Abbott confirmed Thursday this new capacity limit should now go into effect for the North Texas region.
That is I believe, about 15 counties altogether.
For this capacity limit to go back up, COVID-19 patients must make up less than 15% of the total capacity for seven straight days.
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