AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — An outbreak of respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus has reached all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.
A nationwide shortage of tests has made it difficult to know exactly how many confirmed cases there are, but here’s what we know so far about the outbreaks in the surrounding counties.
EDITOR’S NOTE: COVID-19 number reports are fluid. Sometimes the counties release numbers that have not yet been reported by the state’s website and vice versa. Sometimes a county’s number of cases, deaths, and recoveries my decrease if health officials find that person’s home address isn’t in the county in which they were they were tested or died. We appreciate your understanding as we try to help you understand these numbers.
(This table reflects the cases on the High Plains as of 3:30 p.m. on September 17, 2020.)
| County | Confirmed Cases Reported | Deaths | Recovery |
| Armstrong | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| Beaver | 47 | – | 44 |
| Briscoe | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| Carson | 18 | – | 17 |
| Castro | 242 | 5 | 219 |
| Childress | 65 | – | 56 |
| Cimarron | 22 | – | 17 |
| Collingsworth | 18 | – | 15 |
| Cottle | 25 | 2 | 17 |
| Curry | 729 | 5 | 388 |
| Dallam | 239 | 5 | 213 |
| Deaf Smith | 1,025 | 20 | 913 |
| Donley | 59 | 1 | 53 |
| Gray | 285 | 5 | 262 |
| Hall | 20 | 1 | 15 |
| Hardeman | 24 | – | 22 |
| Hansford | 108 | 4 | 96 |
| Hartley | 123 | 4 | 109 |
| Hemphill | 73 | – | 65 |
| Hutchinson | 176 | 3 | 142 |
| Lipscomb | 32 | – | 24 |
| Moore | 1,140 | 19 | 1,096 |
| Ochiltree | 122 | 4 | 105 |
| Oldham | 16 | 1 | 14 |
| Parmer | 406 | 7 | 373 |
| Potter | 4,496 | 60 | 4,019 |
| Quay | 69 | 2 | 41 |
| Randall | 2,568 | 36 | 2,130 |
| Roberts | 9 | – | 7 |
| Roosevelt | 246 | 3 | 118 |
| Sherman | 58 | – | 51 |
| Swisher | 100 | 3 | 89 |
| Texas | 1,393 | 8 | 1,244 |
| Union | 31 | 2 | 14 |
| Wheeler | 43 | – | 42 |
| TOTAL | 14,053 | 202 | 12,052 |
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