South Plains and other towns across Texas are putting proactive measures in place to quell the spread of COVID-19. Disruptions to school, work, and major public gatherings are already manifesting and it’s important to stay up to date on what’s happening in the South Plains, TX community.
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Texas COVID-19 Cases
Texas Total Coronavirus Cases: 8,600,393
Texas New Coronavirus Deaths:
Texas Total Coronavirus Deaths: 94,424
U.S. Total Coronavirus Cases: 107,184,620
U.S. New Coronavirus Deaths: 8
U.S. Total Coronavirus Deaths: 1,166,662
Coronavirus News for South Plains
South Plains: Coronavirus And Permian Oil Bust Could Cripple This Texas Bank - Behind The Idea
and the coronavirus hit. The simultaneous impact of these developments is likely to have a sharply negative impact on the Texas economy in general, and the oil-rich areas that South Plains serves ... More info »
Seeking Alpha - 06/05/2020 02:00amThe West Texas Basketball Tournament at the Center of a Coronavirus Outbreak
Basketball is king this time of year in the rural communities of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains ... on social media that a case of COVID-19 had popped up in Lubbock and warned of scammers ... More info »
Texas Monthly - 05/27/2020 12:00pmLubbock, other South Plains cities lobby for direct federal COVID-19 relief funding in next bill
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - As Congress considers what is in the next COVID-19 relief bill, the City of Lubbock and other South Plains cities are hoping financial assistance to local governments is ... More info »
KCBD - 02/04/2021 10:00amTexas' new coronavirus surge is leaving critically sick patients stranded in rural areas, hospitals say
Rising coronavirus cases plus the double threats ... but it’s never been harder than it is right now for most of West Texas, the South Plains and the Panhandle.” In Childress, the hospital ... More info »
The Texas Tribune - 10/28/2020 12:00pmSouth Plains Voices of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Her essay is on oral history interviews recalling the 1918 flu pandemic on the South Plains. The Southwest ... problem with the 1918 flu (and with COVID-19) is the lack of a reliable treatment. More info »
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - 04/25/2020 04:33amHow do you feel your community is responding to the coronavirus crisis:
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