Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope and city healthcare providers held a news panel Wednesday to give the public insight into what they are seeing on the frontlines of the COVID-19 fight as the county s case count continues to climb.
The panel featured several physicians who have been working with COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic in Lubbock County back in March.
Now, nine months into the pandemic, new cases and hospitalizations have soared - there have been 5,443 new cases confirmed and no less than 249 COVID-19 have been hospitalized so far this month at any one time, with the highest number of COVID-hospitalizations reaching 336 patients.