In our area:
Brown County is scheduled to receive 200 doses. 100 of those doses are allocated to Accelhealth Brownwood while another 100 doses are allocated to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Havins Unit.
Callahan County – City of Baird – 200 doses to Resource Care Clinic in Baird.
Comanche County – City of DeLeon – 100 doses allocated to Accelhealth De Leon.
Eastland County – 200 doses allocated to Eastland Memorial Hospital.
McCulloch County – Brady – 200 doses allocated to Frontera Healthcare.
Taylor County – The DSHS hub in Abilene will receive 2,925 doses this week.
COVID-19: Taylor County deaths climb 3 more, plus 110 new cases
The number of county deaths connected to the coronavirus is 165.
The deceased are a man and a woman each in their 80s with preexisting health conditions and a woman in her 70s with unknown medical predisposition, health officials said.
In the past eight days, Taylor County has reported 39 COVID-19-linked deaths.
The 110 new cases are based on 57 polymerase chain reaction tests and 53 antigen tests.
Active cases total 2,481 (913 PCR cases and 1,568 antigen cases).
There are 102 COVID-19 inpatients at Abilene hospitals, which is eight fewer than reported Monday, city officials said.
Hendrick Health System on Tuesday reported the COVID-19 inpatients number was 17.25% of total hospital beds in Abilene s trauma service area, an increase from Monday s rate of 16.38%.