1.2K
April 10, 2020
United States:
- Total infections: 466,299 (Up 33,861)
- 26,522 recovered (Up 2,397)
- 16,686 deaths (Up 1,878)
- New infections have reached a near flat growth, small dip in number of daily mortalities
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 3.6% (up .2%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- U.S. mortality rate is trending up, despite increased testing criteria to find more cases
- Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington COVID-19 mortality projection has been reduced from 82,000 total deaths to 60,400 deaths
- Antibody test to determine if a person has had a previous COVID-19 infection will be widely available within the next month
Texas:
- 170 Texas counties reporting cases (Up 3)
- No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
- Deaths: 223 (Up 30)
- Total Texas Cases: 11,483 (Up 1,406)
- Texas mortality rate is 1.9% (No change) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 1,439 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Down 52)
Regional:
- 234 cases in Lubbock (up 20)
- 9 deaths in Lubbock county (Up 2)
- 12 total combined deaths on the South Plains
- 70 cases recovered in Lubbock (up 8)
- 7 health care workers in Lubbock have COVID-19
- 28 Lubbock COVID-19 patients hospitalized at this time
- 279 confirmed cases on the South Plains (Up 21)
- 7 diagnosed cases in Terry county (Up 1)
- The three new Terry county cases remain under investigation
