Colling County revises COVID-19 case reporting criteria to include "probable cases", defined by fifteen options, increasing county cases from 1 to 17"

"If you have a subjective fever and a headache, you meet the criteria"

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Chris Hill, Collin County Judge: "The State of Texas DSHS has informed the public health departments that they have adopted a revised definition for COVID-19 probable cases."

Aisha Souri, Collin County Epidemiology Department: "So, for a confirmed case, it stays the same, you still just need PCR. But now they've added a probable case definition. So that still gets counted towards the case count. It's different, it's not confirmed, it's probable, but it's still a case. So at the end of this definition, there are fifteen different options on how you can be classified as a probable case. Based on this diagram and what they report, there's a total of seventeen cases now. One is still only confirmed, because that was that original index case, who then had all these contacts underneath in orange, and all the rest of them became probable, but they are still considered a case."

Hill: "Which has the potential to be a very significant event for us here in Texas and here in Collin County as the state now has elected to adopt this new probable definition. If you have a subjective fever, and you have a headache, and you live in Collin County, you now meet the qualifications to be a probable Covid patient. It is remarkable how low the standard is now. If you have one of the major symptoms, you have a cough or you have shortness of breath, and you live in Collin County, then you could can satisfy the definition for a probable Covid case. But I'm very concerned that we absolutely could see the numbers jump, very rapidly, in a way that actually is not indicative of what we're seeing here in the community, in the public health department."

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