City of Lubbock confirmed 234 Additional COVID-19 Cases, 7 Deaths
As of 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, the City of Lubbock confirmed 234 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), 409 recoveries and 7 additional deaths. The total number of cases in Lubbock County is 33,271: 5,136 active, 27,764 listed as recovered and 371 total deaths.
Since the 4:00 PM cut off, 8 cases were identified as duplicates or assigned to the correct jurisdiction. These cases have been adjusted into the cumulative totals.
As of 4:00 p.m. there are a combined 23 open hospital beds and 28 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 29.22%. 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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