TEXAS — As of Monday, the U.S. has seen 666,440 deaths attributed to COVID-19 since the outset of the pandemic, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than 60,000 of them occurred in Texas.
The Texas Department of State Health Services as of Monday is reporting 60,784 total fatalities in the state.
However, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have the number of deaths in Texas higher, at 61,960.
If there’s any good news it’s that case numbers and hospitalizations have come down significantly in recent weeks.
The state health department on Sunday reported 2,216 new confirmed cases of the virus, 219 new probable cases and 110 new fatalities.
Just a few weeks back new cases of the virus in Texas were regularly exceeding 20,000 per day.
Currently, 11,838 Texans are being treated for the virus in hospitals. Of those, 8,027 are adults in general hospital beds, 3,554 are adults in intensive care and 257 are pediatric patients.
Texas is currently down to 304 available staffed adult ICU beds and 86 available staffed pediatric ICU beds.