The Northeast Health District added 105 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday based on molecular tests and 136 cases based on antigen tests as well as two deaths–both in Oconee County–attributed to the disease.
The Oconee County deaths were of a 63-year-old male without a known chronic condition and of an 89-year-old male without a known chronic condition.
The two deaths in Oconee County pushed the county’s number of deaths in the Daily Status Report to 34. The county is the third-highest in the 10-county Northeast Health District in deaths per population.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District, based on the Daily Status Report tally, increased to 2.0 on Tuesday from 1.9 on Monday.
The Department of Public Health only began reporting Antigen Positive Cases in addition its traditional Confirmed Cases on Tuesday of last week.
Tuesday was the first day, both across the state and in the Northeast Health District, when the number of antigen cases exceeded the number of molecular cases.
Different Tests
The Antigen Positive Case “represent individuals with a positive antigen test,” according to the Department of Public Health.
Confirmed Cases are “defined as an individual with a positive molecular test,” according to the Department of Public Health.
Molecular tests detect the virus’ genetic material while antigen tests detect specific proteins on the surface of the virus. Antigen tests are often referred to as rapid tests and are not as sensitive as the molecular tests.
The seven-day rolling average of added confirmed cases based on molecular tests dropped to 89.6 on Tuesday from 90.3 on Monday.
The seven-day rolling average of added antigen cases was 52.6. This was the first rolling average that could be computed given that only eight days of data have been reported at this point.
Oconee County added five confirmed cases based on molecular tests on Tuesday, and Clarke County added 38 confirmed cases based on the molecular tests. The seven-day rolling average of added cases in Oconee County was unchanged from Monday, while it increased in Clarke County.
Oconee County also added seven Antigen Positive Cases and Clarke County added 29.
Hospital, Long-Term Care Facility Reports
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Tuesday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (75) decreased by one from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (67) increased by eight from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (29) decreased by 2 from the day before.
Area hospitals have a capacity of 70 ICU beds, though that capacity can be increased.
The Department of Community Health listed one new COVID-19 Positive resident at the 38 long-term care facilities covered by its Long-Term Care Facility Report and four new COVID-19 Positive Staff.
The new resident case was at University Nursing and Rehabilitation nursing home in Athens-Clarke County, which has had 50 positive residents at the facility that now has 88 residents. Seven of the residents are listed as currently positive.
Three of the new positive staff are at Nancy Hart Nursing Center in Elbert County, and the fourth is at The Oaks Skilled Nursing in Athens-Clarke County.
Oconee Deaths
The two Oconee County deaths bring to three the number added in the county in the last week. On Friday, the Daily Status Report listed the death of a female with a chronic condition aged 90 plus.
Oconee County also has had 12 deaths listed in the Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report, eight at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in North High Shoals and four at Magnolia Estates of Oconee personal care home on Virgil Langford Road south of SR 316.
One of the deaths at Magnolia Estates was listed on Monday in the Department of Community Health Report, and another was on Friday.
The Department of Community Health does not list any of the characteristics of the deaths it reports, so it is not possible to match deaths in its report with the deaths in the Department of Public Health report.
Even though the Department of Public Health distributes the Department of Community Health report, it does not automatically treat deaths from the Department of Community Health report as confirmed deaths for listing in the Daily Status Report.
Long-term care facilities themselves report the deaths for the Department of Community Health report.
The Department of Public Health is now listing 21 probable deaths in the Northeast Health District, but none of them is in Oconee County. A probable death is a death about which there is less certainty that COVID-19 was a cause.
State Data
Across the state, the Department of Public Health listed 2,012 confirmed cases based on molecular tests, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 1,690.9 from 1,651.7 on Monday.
The Daily Status Report also listed 2,506 Antigen Positive Cases, and the seven-day average of added Antigen Positive Cases was 808.7.
The state added 41 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Tuesday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 35.3 on Tuesday from 33.4 on Monday.
Twenty-five of those deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths based on date of the death increased on Tuesday from Monday.
The Department of Public Health also eliminated two deaths it had previously recorded as due to COVID-19. The deaths had been listed as occurring on Oct. 18 and on Nov. 1.
The Department of Public Health also listed 12 probable deaths on Tuesday.
Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Tuesday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,568) increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,377) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (777) increased from the day before.
The Department of Community Affairs on Tuesday reported COVID-19 cases at 652 long-term care facilities across the state, up from 650 on Monday.
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 Tuesday.
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 for the entire Northeast Health District 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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