Wednesday Covid Report Card Shows Addition Deaths In Potter and Randall
Amarillo is seeing 34 new covid-19 cases reported on the Public Health Report Card for Wednesday.
Potter County has 20 additional cases with 27 recoveries and 4 new deaths.
Randall County has 14 more cases with 20 recoveries and 2 new deaths.
The increase in the number of deaths is due to a delay in reporting by outside sources to the Amarillo Public Health Department.
There have been a total of 48,651 tests conducted with 221 still pending.
There are now 474 active cases in the Amarillo area.
During the Weekly Covid-19 Press Conference, Area Health Officials gave an update on hospital rates.
Dr. Michael Lamanteer said Baptist St. Anthony’s 18 positive patients, with 11 in the ICU and seven on ventilators. The hospital is seeing a downtick of Covid-19 patients, the hospital is opening visitation to allow one visitor per patient. The positivity rate is down to about 12 percent as opposed to 20 percent in July.
Dr. Brian Weis, the chief medical officer at Northwest Texas Healthcare System said they have 23 positive patients, with nine in the ICU and five on ventilators.
The Amarillo VA has no Covid-19 patients in house and 21 in home isolation.
Dr. Brian Weis, told the news conference that the hospital has seen more children with the virus during the recent surge in cases.
Dr Weis went on to say the hospital is currently treating an 11 day old child who tested poaitive for Covid-19, and several mothers who are positive with the virus have given birth to babies.
The babies were tested 24 to 48 hours after birth, and he reported that so far, none have tested positive.
Dr. Weis also spoke about the status of different treatments the hospital is using on Covi-19 patients.
The Doctor went on to say Northwest Texas Healthcare is running short of remdesivir. Dr Weis also said that Vitamin D has shown to be a cheaper and safer alternative than hydroxychloroquine.
He went back to some observational studies that show Covid-19 patients in the ICU tend to have lower Vitamin D levels than patients that are not in the I C U>
