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Comal County added 89 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and reported the death of a New Braunfels woman in her 70s who passed away Aug. 8 in a San Antonio hospital. The number of total ...
Two more COVID-19 deaths, 88 hospitalizations in Comal County hospitals reported today. Comal County’s Public Health Department said in a statement another 108 new COVID-19 cases were added, bringing the county’s total to 13,911. Seventy-two ...
A New Braunfels woman in her 20s and a Spring Branch woman in her 50s are Comal County’s latest COVID-19 fatalities. The New Braunfels woman passed away on July 29 at a San Antonio hospital. ...
By Olivia Weisinger, administrator of Open Comal County Schools Safely Facebook page For the past year, we have stood with teachers and parents to create safer schools. Today’s letter from Comal ISD Supt. Andrew Kim ...
Comal ISD students and teachers will not be required to wear masks when they return to classrooms on Aug. 24. In an email to parents today, Supt. Andrew Kim said the wearing of face masks ...
Comal County Democratic Chair Dr. Marilyn Aden, a retired Chicago physician, says the COVID-19 special enrollment period for uninsured Texans seeking healthcare through the federal government ends Sunday. Amid the resurgence of COVID-19, high-quality health ...
New Braunfels’ Resolute Health Hospital, part of San Antonio’s Baptist Health System, said it is onboarding new registered nurses (RNs) and staff to care for an increasing number of patients whose COVID-19 symptoms develop swiftly ...
Two more Comal County residents have died of COVID-19. The county’s Public Health Department today confirmed the deaths of a Canyon Lake woman in her 80s who passed away at a New Braunfels hospital on ...
The unvaccinated account for 96% of all patients being treated for COVID-19 in Comal County hospitals. Comal County Public Health Director Cheryl Fraser wants to change that number. “Local hospitals are reporting high admissions of ...
Comal County reported 179 new COVID-19 cases today, most of them in residents under the age of 50. County hospitals are now caring for 95 COVID-19 patients. Of those, 17 are in intensive care, and ...
Two Canyon Lake residents died of COVID-19 in late July, Comal County said in a statement Friday. A Canyon Lake man in his 50s passed away on July 25, Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said. ...
Comal County’s COVID-19 active case count rose to 1,122 today with 182 new cases added and one death reported. A Garden Ridge man in his 80s died July 18 at a San Antonio hospital. Of ...
New Braunfels’ Resolute Hospital and Baptist Health System want to save you an unnecessary trip to emergency rooms already packed with people who have COVID-19 symptoms. They’ve set up a new “Tele-ER” platform which serves ...
The COVID-19 deaths of two Canyon Lake men and two New Braunfels residents were confirmed today by Comal County. In a statement, Comal County Public Information Officer Cary Zayas also reported another 175 new cases ...
Guadalupe County’s Office of Emergency Management today reported an estimated 566 active cases of COVID-19 and said 24 patients are being treated for the virus at Guadalupe Regional Medical Center in Seguin. In a statement, ...
Former Comal County Health Authority and family practicioner Dr. Dorothy Overman warned Satuday that COVID-19 will sweep like fire through area schools if students don’t wear masks. On her popular New Braunfels COVID19 Community Info ...
Comal County confirmed the COVID-19 deaths of two New Braunfels men today and reported 111 new cases of the virus. In a statement, Public Health said a New Braunfels man in his 70s died July ...
Two New Braunfels residents who have since recovered from COVID-19 are Comal County’s first confirmed cases of the highly contangious Delta variant. Comal County Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said in a statement that it ...
Starting Friday, Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) Rec Park at Canyon Lake will require employees and guests to wear masks indoors regardless of their vaccination status. On Facebook, JBSA Rec Park announced the facility is ...
Comal County reported 154 new and 810 active cases of COVID-19 today. Twenty-three of the new cases were reported in residents under the age of 20, including three infants under 12 months of age, the ...
COVID-19 case counts surged in Comal County on Tuesday, with 133 new and 626 active, confirmed-and-probable cases of the virus reported. These numbers include weekend totals, Comal County Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said. Ninety-one ...
A New Braunfels woman in her 80s died of COVID-19 on July 18, Comal County said in a statement released Monday. Forty-seven new cases also were reported. Twenty-nine are confirmed and 18 are probable cases. ...
by Dr. Dorothy Overman Former Comal County Health Authority and Family Medicine Practicioner Here is a fact that is incredibly important. In Texas, of the 8,787 deaths due to COVID-19 that occurred from February of ...
Comal County reported 36 new COVID-19 cases today as its active case count rose to 525. Eleven of the new cases are in residents under the age of 20, including two infants under 12 months ...
Medical professionals are treating children who are “sicker” with the COVID-19 virus and hospitalizations continue to rise, Public Health Director Cheryl Fraser said at Comal County Commissioners Court today. There are still no “confirmed” cases ...
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to skyrocket, Comal County’s Public Health Department is preparing to hire more staff, educate the public about the virus, and make the vaccine available to everyone in the ...
Comal County reported 43 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases to 11,931. In a statement, Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said 27 are confirmed and 16 are probable cases. There ...
by Faye Crowell, MHS, PA-C Mother of 7-year-old Specht Elementary student and physician assistant practicing allergy/immunology The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. I am finding myself in situations recently where it is apparent that many ...
San Marcos Consolidated ISD (SMCISD) Board of Trustees on Monday approved a one-time $250 stipend for all district employees who get vaccinated against COVID-19. “Protecting our ISD teachers, staff and students and ensuring our employees ...
Comal County Epidemiologist Connie Alaniz said today the majority of county residents hospitalized with COVID-19 are not vaccinated. Most deaths also occur in those not immunized against the virus, she said. However, Alaniz said data ...
Comal County residents are in no hurry to get fully immunized this week despite recent increases in COVID-19 case counts and deaths, and a warning last week from the Texas Department of State Health Services ...
Comal County reported 73 new cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to 11,846 since reporting began in March 2020. There are now 423 active, confirmed-and-probable cases in the county, up from the 378 reported ...
A New Braunfels woman in her 90s died at home of COVID-19 on Monday, Comal County said in a statement today. A New Braunfels man in his 80s also passed away from the virus. He ...
by Dr. Dorothy Overman Former Comal County Health Authority and Family Medicine Practicioner About three weeks ago I said local cases are trending back up, well it is definitely going up. In Comal County the ...
Comal County reported 34 new COVID-19 cases today, July 14, as the number of active cases rose from 292 on Tuesday to 326. Fourteen residents included in active-case count are hospitalized. The seven-day molecular positivity ...
Comal County reported 44 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday as the number of active cases of the virus rose to 292. The seven-day molecular positivity rate for Tuesday is 5.49%. The seven-day antigen positivity rate ...
A New Braunfels man in his 50s died of COVID-19 at a New Braunfels hospital July 9, bringing the total number of virus-related deaths in Comal County to 329. In a statement today, July 12, ...
Comal County in a statement today said 90 new COVID-19 cases and one death were reported over the four-day 4th of July holiday. A New Braunfels man in his 80s died on July 2. No ...
Comal County reported 26 new cases of COVID-19 today and the death of a New Braunfels man in his 50s who died of the virus on June 26. No further details are available. The total ...
A Canyon Lake man in his 90s died of COVID-19 at a New Braunfels hospital on June 30, Comal County said in a statement today. No further details are available. The total number of deceased ...
Comal County reported 14 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the total to 11,344 cases since March 2020. In a statement, county Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said eight of the new cases are confirmed and ...
Comal County added another 46 cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to 11,300 cases since March 2020. In a statement, county Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said 34 of the new cases are confirmed ...
Comal County reported 37 new cases of COVID-19 Friday, bringing the county’s total to 11,284 since reporting began in 2020. In a statement, county Public Information Officer Cary Zayas said nineteen of the new cases ...
by Dr. Dorothy Overman Former Comal County Health Authority and Family Medicine Practicioner We have had a break with low transmission of COVID 19 but it is trending back up. Our positivity rates locally had ...
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