Tarrant County Public Health Reports 18 COVID-19 Deaths

March 26, 2021 (Tarrant County) - Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) today reports 18 COVID-19 deaths. There were five deaths in February and 13 from March.

TCPH receives notifications of people with COVID-19 from clinics, hospitals, long term care facilities, laboratories, schools, the medical examiner, the state health and other local health departments. TCPH also receives reports of deaths of people who have COVID-19 from the same sources. However, a death may occur in a different place and weeks after original diagnosis. When this occurs the death may not get reported to the local health department. To address this problem, The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has begun sharing with local health departments the death certificate information where the cause or other conditions listed indicate COVID-19. TCPH is now using that data to find additional deaths of Tarrant County residents. Each week, data received from DSHS is compiled and reconciled against previously known deaths and where the person lived. This data is reported each Friday. As a result, the number of deaths reported out are expected to be greater on Friday.

The deceased were from:

Euless: one

• One man in his 60s

Fort Worth: eight

• One man who exceeded 90
• One woman in her 80s
• One woman in her 70s
• One man in his 70s
• Two men in their 60s
• One woman in her 50s
• One man in his 40s

Grapevine: one

• One man in his 70s

Hurst: one

• One man in his 70s

Keller: one

• One man in his 80s

Mansfield: three

• One woman in her 70s
• One man in his 70s
• One woman in her 60s

Unincorporated: one

• One man in his 70s

Watauga: one

• One man in his 80s

White Settlement: one

• One man in his 40s

All but four had underlying health conditions. Tarrant County now has 3,258 confirmed deaths from the COVID-19 virus and 240,859 people have recovered.

COVID-19 causes respiratory illness with cough, fever and shortness of breath and may lead to bronchitis and severe pneumonia. For more information go to coronavirus.tarrantcounty.com or call the Tarrant County Public Health information line, 817-248-6299, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday - Sunday.

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