RECAP: City of Amarillo’s COVID-19 briefing for Aug. 26

Posted: Aug 26, 2020 / 10:43 AM CDT / Updated: Aug 26, 2020 / 07:07 PM CDT

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — We are seeing a slight and gradual decline of COVID-9 patients in our local hospitals.

21 people are at Northwest Texas Hospital battling the virus. Six of those are in the ICU, and four of the six are on a ventilator.

At BSA, they have got 23 patients with COVID-19. 12 of those are in the ICU.

There are six people at the VA hospital and 24 people at home with the virus.

During today’s COVID-19 briefing, Amarillo Public Health Authority, Dr. Scott Milton, discussed the process of vaccine development.

Dr. Milton said there are essentially three phases in a vaccine trial. Each phase expands the number of people given the experimental vaccine.

At each phase, researchers monitor for efficacy and safety.

(This table reflects the cases on the High Plains as of 5:00 p.m. on January 18, 2021.)

County	Confirmed Cases Reported	Deaths	Recovery
Armstrong	83	6	99
Beaver	351	3	330
Briscoe	65	3	89
Carson	198	11	277
Castro	600	22	763
Childress	1,241	12	1,195
Cimarron	117	1	103
Collingsworth	169	8	201
Cottle	131	6	169
Curry	4,555	52	3,017
Dallam	939	9	893
Deaf Smith	2,518	59	2,386
Donley	137	7	225
Gray	1,597	40	1,626
Hall	260	11	220
Hardeman	265	9	309
Hansford	315	17	579
Hartley	653	9	619
Hemphill	458	2	354
Hutchinson	896	56	1,118
Lipscomb	226	10	204
Moore	1,859	57	1,987
Ochiltree	870	19	877
Oldham	90	2	139
Parmer	803	32	1,039
Potter	15,947	333	14,357
Quay	381	8	222
Randall	15,104	224	12,988
Roberts	46	1	43
Roosevelt	1,697	41	921
Sherman	101	11	102
Swisher	359	14	611
Texas	3,245	18	3,056
Union	207	7	89
Wheeler	403	9	366
TOTAL	56,891	1,133	51,629

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