Oconee and Clarke counties each added a death attributed to COVID-19 with the release of the Daily Status Report on Friday, two of four deaths from the disease in the Northeast Health District included in the Department of Public Health report.
The Department of Community Health also listed four deaths on Friday in the Northeast Health District in its Long-Term Care Facility Report, including one in Oconee County.
The Oconee County death listed in the Department of Public Health Daily Status report was of a 76-year-old female without a known chronic condition. She is the 31st death in the county attributed to the disease.
The Clarke County death in the Daily Status Report, the second listed in as many days, was of an 81-year old male with a chronic condition. He was the 50th death in the county attributed to COVID-19.
The Daily Status Report also listed a death in Elbert County of an 84-year-old male with a chronic condition, making 10 deaths in the county from the disease in that Report.
The fourth death listed in the Daily Status Report was of in Walton County and was of a 76-year-old female without a known chronic condition. She became the 69th death in the county, the largest number in any of the 10 counties in the District.
The total number of deaths attributed to the novel corona virus in the Northeast Health District in the Daily Status Report now stands at 308, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths from the disease was 1.9 on Friday, down from 2.0 on Thursday. The District had five deaths on Friday of last week.
Community Health Report
The Department of Public Health distributes the Department of Community Health report on long-term care facilities, but the data in the Department of Community Health report come from self-reports from long-term care facilities to the Department of Community Health.
The Department of Community Health report lists facilities reporting the death but it does not list characteristics of the deceased.
The Oconee County death in the Department of Community Health was at Magnolia Estates of Oconee, 1641 Virgil Langford Road, south of SR 316, and is the second death reported at the personal care home.
Another of the deaths listed in the Department of Community Health report was at Heardmont Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in Elbert County, the seventh listed at that facility.
The Department of Community Health also reported two deaths at Bountiful Hills personal care home in Jackson County, the first two deaths at that facility.
The two Jackson County deaths in the Department of Community Health report certainly are not in the Daily Status Report list of deaths on Friday, and past reporting patterns indicate it is unlikely that the Oconee County and Elbert County deaths in the Department of Community Health report are the deaths in those counties listed in the Daily Status Report.
Confirmed Cases
The Department of Public Health Daily Status Report listed 69 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Friday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average dropped to 79.0 from 90.1 on Thursday. It was the fifth day in a row that the seven-day rolling average has dropped.
Every county in the District added at least one case with the exception of Oconee County. The Daily Status Report listed two fewer cumulative cases in the county on Friday than the day before.
Friday was a day in which, across the state, the Department of Public Health removed 161 previously-listed cases from its file, for reasons not disclosed.
Clarke County added 22 cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases for both Oconee and Clarke counties declined on Friday.
The Department of Community Health on Friday listed seven new cases of COVID-19 among residents of the 37 long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District covered by the Long-Term Care Facility Report.
Six of those resident cases were at Hill Haven nursing home in Jackson County and the seventh was at Magnolia Estates of Oconee County. The Oconee County facility has reported 11 positive residents cumulatively among its 24 residents and eight currently positive residents.
Oconee School Report
Oconee County Schools on Friday reported that, as of the end of the day, the system’s 11 schools had six Active COVID-19 Cases and 19 Active Quarantines Due to Close Contact.
Both numbers are up from a week ago, when the system reported five Active COVID-19 Cases and seven Active Quarantines Due to Close Contact.
Anisa Sullivan Jimenez, director of Communications for the school system, confirmed that the Quarantine numbers “are those who are currently under quarantine as a result of COVID-19 positive individuals reported by the school system” to the Department of Public Health, not the number of quarantine orders.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Friday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (58) increased by one from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (64) increased by one from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (29) was unchanged from the day before.
State Data
The Department of Public Health listed 35 deaths from COVID-19 in its Friday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths was 28.0, down just slightly from 28.3 the day before.
Eighteen of the added deaths were dated as occurring in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence increased slightly on Friday.
The Department of Public Health removed three deaths from its archive of listed deaths, one of them on Sept. 19 and another on Sept. 20.
The Department of Public Health listed 1,538 new COVID-19 confirmed cases, and the seven-day rolling average declined from 1,664.0 on Thursday to 1,559.6 on Friday. It was the first decline in the rolling average in a week.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Friday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,373) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,410) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (877) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health listed 643 long-term care facilities on Friday with COVID-19 cases among their residents and/or staff, up from 639 on Thursday.
Charts
All of the charts below are based on data from the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report and have been updated to include data from the release of that report at 2:50 p.m. on Friday.
Charts 1 and 2 include data from the 10-county Northeast Health District of the Department of Public Health, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties.
Chart 3 shows data for Oconee and Clarke counties in the main chart and data from Oconee County Schools in the insert.
Charts 4 and 5 show data for the entire state of Georgia.
Click on any of the charts to enlarge it.
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