Two additional deaths attributed to Kerr County were reported on Tuesday, including the first nursing home death since September 2021.
The Texas Department of State Health Services said a Kerr County resident died of COVID-19 on Jan. 16, and there are no details about the person or where they died. Peterson Health told The Lead it has had no deaths in January. Most people who have died from COVID-19 have done so in hospitals outside Kerr County.
It was the 28th death at a Kerrville area nursing home since 2020. There are four nursing homes in the area after the Guadalupe River Plaza exited from long-term nursing care at the end of 2021.
Alpine Terrace had two previous deaths at its facility. After COVID-19 rampaged through nursing homes in 2020, those patients were among the first to be vaccinated. The last COVID-19 nursing home deaths happened in September when three people died at Hilltop Village. Nursing home deaths are not counted in the DSHS data.
After two days of slight declines, the state's hospitalizations climbed to more than 13,200 people, including 480 children. In the San Antonio region, including Kerr County, hospitalizations were steady at 1,061. However, available intensive care unit beds remained small at just 55.
Since the omicron variant swept across the state last month, more than 1.6 million people have tested positive for the virus.
Kerr County COVID-19 deaths since Oct. 1, 2021:
- Oct. 1, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services.
- Oct. 3, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Oct. 22)
- Oct. 5, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services.
- Oct. 6, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services. (Reported on Nov. 4)
- Oct. 7, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services. (Reported on Oct. 27)
- Oct. 10, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services.
- Oct. 10, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Oct. 21)
- Oct. 14, as reported by Peterson Regional Medical Center. (Reported on Oct. 15)
- Oct. 14, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Oct. 20).
- Oct. 14, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Oct. 21).
- Oct. 22, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Oct. 28).
- Oct. 25, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Nov. 12).
- Nov. 4, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Nov. 11).
- Nov. 8, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Nov. 20, changed to Nov. 8 on Nov. 30)
- Nov. 16, as reported by Peterson Regional Medical Center (Reported on Nov. 17).
- Nov. 23, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (Reported on Dec. 3)
- Dec 4, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services
- Dec. 5, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services
- Dec. 17, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services, (reported on Jan. 13).
2022
- Jan. 3, 2022, as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (reported on Jan. 6)
- Jan. 4, 2022 as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services
- Jan. 7, 2022 as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services
- Jan. 8-9, 2022 as reported at Alpine Terrace Nursing Home by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services.
- Jan. 14, 2022 as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (reported on Jan. 22)
- Jan. 14, 2022as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (reported on Jan. 22)
- Jan. 15, 2022 as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services
- Jan. 16, 2022 as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (reported on Jan. 25).
- Jan. 18, 2022 as reported by Texas Department of State Health Services (reported on Jan. 22)
