Yes. The new reporting methodology
has resulted in more than the usual distortion in the daily figures.
Meanwhile new hospitalizations continued to decline in greater Houston. Total Covid patients hospitalized declined week over week by 16 percent.
https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-daily-new-covid-19-hospitalizations/
Meanwhile in Dallas county, new cases fell below 1000 for three straight days, according to the Dallas Morning News.
According to the COVID Tracking Project: https://covidtracking.com/data
Starting July 23, Texas has reported that its current hospitalization and ICU numbers are incomplete due to its transition to the HHS reporting system. We carried over hospitalization figures until July 28. We will backfill the complete numbers for July 23 - July 28 when reporting is back at 100%.
Lots of states are reporting that their hospitalization numbers are currently inaccurate. I think the Texas numbers are improving, but it might not be by as much as the data shows right now.