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United States:
- Total infections: 842,624 (Up 17,318)
- Sharp decline in new daily infections
- 76,614 recovered (Up 941)
- 46,785 deaths (Up 1,710)
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 5.6% (Up .1%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
Texas:
- 200 Texas counties reporting cases (Up 2)
- No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
- Deaths: 569 (Up 24)
- Total Texas Cases: 21,774 (Up 799)
- Texas mortality rate is 2.6% (No change) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 1,678 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Up 259)
- 8.5% of hospital beds of the 19,695 available in Texas are occupied by COVID-19 patients
- 7,341 Recovered (Up 855)
- Incidence rate: 94.73 per 100,000 people in Texas have acquired COVID-19
Regional:
- 470 cases in Lubbock (up 12)
- 219 Lubbock cases related to nursing homes
- 64 Lubbock cases community acquired
- 28 Lubbock cases are health care workers
- 39 deaths in Lubbock county (Up 1)
- 164 cases recovered in the South Plains area (Up 13)
- 547 confirmed cases on the South Plains (Up 15)
- 10 diagnosed cases in Terry county (No change)
- 6 Terry county case recovered