Monday, November 02, 2020

Northeast Health District Adds 55 COVID-19 Confirmed Cases, One Death In Public Health Report On Monday

***Rolling Average Of Added Cases Increases***

The Northeast Health District added 55 new COVID-19 cases and one death attributed to the disease in the Monday Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health.

The additions pushed up the seven-day rolling average of added cases, while the seven-day rolling average of deaths remained unchanged.

The death was of a 75-year-old female in Elbert County without a chronic condition.

Elbert County now has 11 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, and the 10-county Northeast Health District has 310. The seven-day rolling average of added deaths for the District was 1.6, the same as on Saturday and Sunday.

Every county except Olglethorpe added cases on Monday. Oconee County added four and Clarke County added 12. In Clarke County, the seven-day rolling average increased, while it remained unchanged in Oconee County.

In the 10-county Northeast Health District as a whole, the seven-day rolling average increased from 80.6 on Sunday to 82.3 on Monday.

In Oconee County on Friday, verdicts for 29 molecular tests were recorded, and two of them were positive, for a positivity rate of 6.9 percent. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic was 4.1 percent, and the 14-day rolling average was 5.5 percent.

In Clarke County on Friday, verdicts for 90 tests were recorded, and nine of them were positive, for a positivity rate of 10.0 percent. The seven-day rolling average of that statistic was 6.4 percent, and the 14-day rolling average was 5.9 percent.

Community Health Report

The Department of Community Health, in its Monday Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed 11 new COVID-19 Positive Residents and four new COVID-Positive Staff in the 38 facilities in the Northeast Health District covered by the report.

Nine of the new resident testing positive for the disease were at Hill Haven Nursing Home in Jackson County. Another case was at Northridge Health and Rehabilitation nursing home, also in Jackson County.

The third positive resident was at Magnolia Estates of Oconee, 1641 Virgil Langford Road, south of SR 316. That facility has now had 12 positive tests among its resident population of 24 and lists seven residents as currently positive.

The four new staff positives were at Mulberry Grove personal care home in Barrow County, Morningside of Athens personal care home in Clarke County, Magnolia Estates personal care home in Elbert County, and Hill Haven Nursing Home in Jackson County.

Magnolia Estates personal care home in Elbert previously had reported one death from COVID-19 at its facility, but it has removed that death in its Monday filing.

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (59) increased by six from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (62) increased by 16 from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (30) increased by one from the day before.

State Data

Across the state, the Daily Status Report added 1,016 new COVID-19 confirmed cases on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 1,664.7 from 1,658.9 on Sunday.

The Daily Status Report added 19 new deaths, with nine of them in the last 14 days. The state also removed one previously recorded COVID-19 death from the file.

The seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased only to 25.7 from 25.6 on Sunday.

Across the state, the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,424) increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,460) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (813) decreased from the day before.

The Department of Community Health listed 647 long-term care facilities across the state with cases of COVID-19 among their residents and/or staff, up from 643, when the Department issued its last report on Friday.

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 Monday.

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 whole 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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