Daily COVID-19 Update from BRMC

May 4, 2020

United States:

• Total infections: 1,158,341 (Up 192,408 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 180,152 recovered (Up 73,107 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 67,686 deaths (Up 12,809 Vs. Monday April 27)
• Current mortality rate in U.S. is 5.8% (Up .1% Vs. Monday April 27) (Pending infections less than two weeks)

Texas: 

• 212 Texas counties reporting cases (Up 8 Vs. Monday April 27)
• No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
• Deaths: 878 (Up 227 Vs. Monday April 27)
• Total Texas Cases: 31,998 (Up 7,030 Vs. Monday April 27)
• Texas mortality rate is 2.7% (Up .1% Vs. Monday April 27) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
• 1,540 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Down 2 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 7.8% of hospital beds of the 19,695 available in Texas are occupied by COVID-19 patients 
• 15,544 Recovered (Up 4,781 Vs. Monday April 27)
• Incidence rate: 139.22 per 100,000 people in Texas have acquired COVID-19 (Up 30.59 Vs. Monday April 27)

Regional:

• 553 cases in Lubbock (Up 54 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 44 deaths from COVID-19 in Lubbock (Up 4 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 27 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Lubbock county 
• 241 recovered in Lubbock County 
• 667 COVID-19 cases in the South Plains (Up 75 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 286 Cases recovered on the South Plains (Up 83 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 11 diagnosed cases in Terry county (Up 1 Vs. Monday April 27)
• 9 Terry county case recovered (No change)