The Northeast Health District added 188 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 based on molecular testing on Thursday, the largest number the 10-county District has added since Sept. 15–and an additional 39 cases based on rapid antigen tests.
The seven-day rolling average of added confirmed cases in the Department of Public Health Daily Status report increased from 133.3 on Wednesday to 137.4 on Thursday. The last time the seven-day rolling average was that high in the District was on Sept. 18.
The added antigen positive tests pushed the seven-day rolling average of added antigen cases to 52.0 from 50.3 on Wednesday. The Department of Public Health began reporting antigen cases only on Nov. 3, and the 52.0 average is just below the 52.6 average after the first week of released data on antigen cases.
Every county in the 10-county Northeast Health District added at least four cases based on the molecular tests on Thursday, with Oconee County adding seven cases and Clarke County adding 45. The seven-day rolling average of added cases increased in both counties.
Oconee County also added six cases based on the antigen tests, and Clarke County added five.
No new deaths from COVID-19 were reported in the Thursday Daily Status Report. Because one death had been removed from the listing of deaths in the District a week ago, the seven-day rolling average of added death increased even without a new death from 1.6 on Wednesday to 1.7 on Thursday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Thursday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (84) increased by five from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (57) decreased by seven from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (26) decreased by three from the day before.
Even with the growth in cases in the District, the number of COVID-19 patients, number of ICU beds in use, and number of adult ventilators in use has not increased in recent weeks.
State Data
Across the state on Thursday, the Department of Public Health reported 2,946 new cases of COVID-19 based on molecular tests, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on this test increased to 2,510.1 on Thursday from 2,480.0 on Wednesday.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases has not been above 2,500 in the state since Aug. 24.
The state added 811 cases based on antigen tests, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases based on antigen tests dropped to 1,114.6 on Thursday from 1,118.0 on Wednesday.
The state added 26 new deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Thursday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths from the disease dropped to 24.6 from 26.6 on Wednesday.
Sixteen of those deaths were in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence increased on Thursday from Wednesday.
The state also removed four cases previously listed as caused by COVID-19 from its archives of deaths from the disease.
In addition, the Department of Public Health listed 17 probable deaths from COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added probable deaths increased to 12.4 on Thursday from 10.6 on Wednesday.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Thursday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,957) increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,380) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (850) increased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health did not issue a Long-Term Care Facility Report 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 Thursday.
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. The inserted chart is based on data from the GHA for Region E of GEMA, which includes the 10 counties of the Northeast Health District plus Franklin and Hart counties.
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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