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Dallas County Sept. 15 lowered its COVID-19 risk level to yellow as cases and hospitalizations decline.

Pediatric COVID-19 cases account for about a third of cases in Dallas County, a pandemic high for that age group, according to data from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced Sept. 2 that doses of the updated COVID-19 booster vaccine are expected to begin arriving at health care providers next week.

The federal government is ending its free at-home COVID-19 test program effective Sept. 2, citing a lack of funding and efforts to preserve supply.

The Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, already leading in the effort to apply data science to public health information, recently helped debut a new national dashboard for community protection against COVID-19 in partnership with the Institute of Health Improvement, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and Civitas Networks for Health.

Local public health experts are warning North Texas’ respite from rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations may be coming to an end, but are cautiously optimistic the area will see a summertime ‘bump’ in cases rather than a wave.

A COVID-19 subvariant similar to the BA.2, which now makes up 80% of samples at UT Southwestern Medical Center, is spreading quickly in North Texas. Scientists say it’s too soon to know if it will behave in the same way as its predecessor.