From Shelby County Office of Emergency Management

After a lengthy discussion with DSHS this morning, we have decided that at this point the COVID numbers for Shelby County should be reported using the DSHS dashboard as opposed to the numbers reported to us that we’ve been providing to y’all. We  feel the numbers are reported more quickly & accurately to the dashboard than they are to us. Plus, DSHS doesn’t report deaths directly to me anymore so the death count on the dashboard is definitely more accurate than my count thus far.

 

I know the one thing that will be  missing that I always provided was the breakdown of our numbers by zip code and ages.  But with our active cases being low right now that’s not as much of an issue.

 

Thanks again for all you do for Shelby County. I’m sure you all probably have it but here is the link to the DSHS dashboard:

 

https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/ed483ecd702b4298ab01e8b9cafc8b83