City of Lubbock confirmed 267 Additional COVID-19 Cases, 6 Deaths

As of 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 18, 2020, the City of Lubbock confirmed 267 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), 126 recoveries and 6 additional deaths. The total number of cases in Lubbock County is 38,542: 3,748 active, 34,293 listed as recovered and 501 total deaths.

Since the 4:00 PM cut off yesterday, 2 additional cases were reported or transferred into Lubbock. These have been adjusted into the cumulative totals.

As of 4:00 p.m. there are a combined 50 open hospital beds and 30 patients holding for beds at University Medical Center and Covenant Health System. Note that this reflects staffed beds open to receive patients and differs from the available bed count shown on the DSHS and the City of Lubbock dashboards. These dashboards count all available beds, including specialty beds, such as pediatrics, PICU, outpatient, psychiatric and others, as well as hospitalized patients in the 22 county Trauma Service Area.

Lubbock remains above the 15% threshold where the percentage of COVID-19 confirmed patients in regional hospitals as a percentage of available hospital beds. Today's COVID-19 hospitalization percentage is not yet available at the time of this release. Trauma Service Area B will remain under the additional restrictions outlined under Governor Abbott’s Executive Orders until we remain below 15% for seven consecutive days.

Executive Orders 31 and 32 can be found here mylubbock.info/ga-31 or here mylubbock.info/ga-32

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