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United States:
- Total infections: 1,256,972 (Up 28,363)
- 195,036 recovered ( Up 4,295)
- 75,670 deaths (Up 2,239)
- Current mortality rate in U.S. is 6% (No change) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 64 children have been hospitalized in New York with symptoms similar to toxic shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease, all have either positive COVID-19 tests or antibody tests. The children are experiencing inflammation in the walls of their arteries, persistent fevers, rash, and swollen neck glands. It is unknown at this time why children are experiencing these symptoms with a COVID-19 infection.
- A retrospective study from Mount Sinai Hospital in New York of 2,700 patients that were intubated with COVID-19 showed that the patients that received anti-coagulant medications had a 34% higher survival rate.
Texas:
- 217 Texas counties reporting cases (Up 1)
- No longer able to report community spread by county due to multiple reporting agencies and differing definitions by agency/county
- Deaths: 954 (Up 29)
- Total Texas Cases: 36,047 (Up 1,119)
- Texas mortality rate is 2.6% (Down .1%) (Pending infections less than two weeks)
- 1,750 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients currently receiving hospital care (Down 62)
- 8.9% of hospital beds of the 19,695 available in Texas are occupied by COVID-19 patients
- 18,440 Recovered (Up 818)
- Incidence rate: 156.83 per 100,000 people in Texas have acquired COVID-19 (Up 4.87)
Regional:
- 582 cases in Lubbock (Up 7)
- 48 deaths from Covid-19 in Lubbock (Up 1)
- 26 Covid-19 patients hospitalized in Lubbock county (Down 4)
- 294 recovered in Lubbock County (Up 11)
- There are more recovered than active cases in Lubbock county at this time
- 716 Covid-19 cases in the South Plains (Up 16)
- 350 Cases recovered on the South Plains (Up 11)
- 12 diagnosed cases in Terry county (No change)
- 9 Terry county case recovered (No change)
