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United States:
- Total infections: 85,996(Up 17,488)
- 1,300 deaths (Up 310)
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 1.5% (up 0.1%)
- U.S. mortality rate is trending up, despite increased testing criteria to find more cases
- STATES ARE NOW REPORTING THEIR OWN TOTAL CASES, CDC STATES “Now that states are testing and reporting their own results, CDC’s numbers are not representative of all testing being done nationwide.”
- New York is now allowing two patients to share a ventilator due to demand
- 13 patients died in a 24 hour period at Elmhurst Hospital in New York
- First time more than 300 have died in a single day
- Per Johns Hopkins the U.S. now has the most of confirmed cases in the world
- 150 employees at four Boston hospitals have tested positive for Corona Virus, follows Italy’s data of elevated diagnosis rate for healthcare providers
Texas:
- 92 Texas counties reporting cases
- No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
- Deaths: 23 (Up 7)
- Total Texas Cases: 1,662 (Up 359)
- Texas mortality rate is 1.3%
Regional:
- 23 cases in Lubbock at this time (up 5)
- Two new Lubbock cases are employees at Whisperwood Nursing Home
- 4 community acquired cases in Lubbock, 6 under investigation
- 5 cases Hockley County
- 4 cases in Terry County (up 1)
- Dawson county reporting first case
