Here is the tweet Mayor Johnson has been sending out every day since last week (when his order went into effect)
From that daily data I can say that hospital bed & ventilator utilization have remained steady at ~50% and ~35% respectively while ICU bed utilization has risen in the past week.
He and Judge Jenkins also tweet out Dallas county cases by zip code every day
In addition to this the mayor sends out a detailed update via email (if you sign up for it) every day that has the following
- Number of tests & positives both daily and to date for Dallas county. This set of data also includes the number of visitors to the two drive through testing centers so we can track if the lines are getting shorter or longer
- The number of positives to date for the other 6 counties in the metroplex.
- Total hospital bed, ICU bed, & ventilator capacity and usage (repeats his daily tweet)
- Daily and to date Covid-19 311 calls
- Daily and to date complaints about violations of emergency regulations broken down by park and non parks
The city also has a bilingual Covid-19 dashboard
Finally twice a week Dallas county is posting a detailed analysis of cases and hospitalizations, using comparisons to flu season so people can see the difference
I wanted to highlight this because too often good governance by Democratic local officials in red states is ignored by the left. Those blue islands fighting the good fight against incredible odds (like the Texas state leadership) are often written off or worse yet grouped with feckless leadership like Governor Abbott.
As an aside this is why Beto has engendered such strong support among Texas Democrats. In 2018 he stepped up and fought for our state and while he didn’t win his tireless work was one factor of many that led to wins for an impressive slate of downballot candidates.