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United States:
- Total infections: 671,425 (Up 31,761)
- 56,236 recovered (Up 3,498)
- 33,286 deaths (Up 2,301)
- Number of new daily infections has been trending up for since April 14th
- First time since April 10th that there have been more than 30,000 new infections in one day
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 5.0% (Down .1%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
Texas:
- 191 Texas counties reporting cases (Up 7)
- No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
- Deaths: 429 (Up 38)
- Total Texas Cases: 17,263 (Up 974)
- Texas mortality rate is 2.5% (Up .1%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 1,459 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Down 79)
- 3,677 Recovered (Up 527)
Regional:
- 401 cases in Lubbock (up 34)
- 28 deaths in Lubbock county (Up 3)
- 127 cases recovered in the South Plains area (Up 23)
- 465 confirmed cases on the South Plains (Up 37)
- 10 diagnosed cases in Terry county (No change)
- 4 Terry county case recovered
- Texas Tech Health Sciences Center has developed an approved method to sanitize N-95 respirators using vaporized hydrogen peroxide and has begun processing respirators
