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April 15, 2020
United States:
- Total infections: 609,685 (Up 27,091)
- 49,966 recovered (Up 5,658)
- 26,059 deaths (Up 2,410)
- After several days of declining deaths an increase in deaths set a new record for daily deaths on April 14th
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 4.3% (up .2%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- U.S. mortality rate is trending up, despite increased testing criteria to find more cases
- Small decrease in the number of new daily diagnosis and deaths
Texas:
- 181 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: 362 (Up 66)
- Total Texas Cases: 15,343 (Up 838)
- Texas mortality rate is 2.4% (Up .4%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 1,409 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Up 233)
- 2,580 Recovered (Up 311)
Regional:
- 330 cases in Lubbock (up 13)
- 25 deaths in Lubbock county (Up 4)
- 87 cases recovered in the South Plains area (Up 7)
- 390 confirmed cases on the South Plains (Up 15)
- 10 diagnosed cases in Terry county (No change)
- 4 Terry county case recovered
