Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Northeast Health District Adds 15 COVID-19 Deaths In Tuesday State Health Reports And 571 New Cases Of Disease

***Deaths In Oconee And Clarke Counties***

The Northeast Health District added 13 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday and 571 new cases of the disease with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report. The seven-day rolling average of added deaths and cases increased.

In addition, the Department of Community Health listed two deaths in the Northeast Health District in its Long-Term Care Facility Report.

Three of the confirmed deaths listed in the Daily Status Report were in Clarke County. One of the deaths in the Long-Term Care Facility Report was in Oconee County.

The Clarke County confirmed deaths were of a 61-year-old female without a chronic condition, an 84-year-old female without a chronic condition, and a 90-plus-year-old male with a chronic condition.

Elbert County recorded the death of an 87-year-old female without a known chronic condition, and Greene County listed the deaths of a 64-year-old male and a 65-year-old female, neither of whom had a chronic condition.

The Daily Status Report listed the death of a 73-year-old male in Madison County without a chronic condition.

Walton County had six new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 listed on Tuesday: a 64-year-old male without a chronic condition, a 73-year-old male without a chronic condition, a 77-year-old male without a known chronic condition, a 79-year-old male without a chronic condition, an 81-year-old male without a chronic condition, and an 87-year-old male without a chronic condition.

The Daily Status Report also include one “probable death” from COVID-19. That death was in Elbert County.

The two deaths listed in the Long-Term Care Facility Report were at St. Gabriel of Athens personal care home of Virgil Langford Road in Oconee County and at Park Place Nursing Facility in Walton County.

The death at St. Gabriel brings to six the number reported by that facility, while the death at Park Place Nursing Facility brings to 35 the number at that nursing home. The Department of Community Health does not list the characteristics of the deceased.

The Department of Public Health distributes the Long-Term Care Facility Report, but it does not treat deaths listed in that report as confirmed.

Cases, Hospital Report

The addition of the 571 new cases of COVID-19 in the Tuesday Daily Status Report resulted in an increase in the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 442.3 from 430.6 on Monday.

Oconee County added 33 cases of COVID-19 in the Daily Status Report and Clarke County added 114. The Oconee County seven-day rolling average dropped slightly to 23.7 on Tuesday from 24.0 on Monday, while the Clarke County rolling average increased to 88.7 from 85.6 on Monday.

Parents of students in Malcom Bridge Middle School and North Oconee High School received messages from the respective school principals on Tuesday telling them of “an individual” in each of the schools who tested positive for COVID-19.

Parents of those same two schools had received a message on Monday telling them about two individuals at each of the schools who had tested positive.

Since the end-of-week report by school administrators on Friday, parents have been notified of at least 10 positive tests in the Oconee County schools.

The Department of Community Health reported two new cases of COVID-19 among residents of long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District. Both were at The Oaks Skilled Nursing in Clarke County.

The Department of Community Health also reported three new cases of COVID-19 among staff of long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District.

Two of those were in Clarke County: at The Oaks Skilled Nursing and at University Nursing and Rehabilitation. The other case was at Park Place Nursing Facility in Walton County.

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 (251) decreased by five from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (80) increased by one from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (55) increased by four from the day before.

State Data

The Daily Status Report listed 142 new deaths from COVID-19 across the state on Tuesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped to 106.0 from 110.0 on Monday.

Seventy-four of those added deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence increased on Tuesday from Monday.

The Daily Status Report also listed 37 “probable deaths” from COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable deaths” decreased to 24.1 on Tuesday from 26.3 on Monday.

The Daily Status Report listed 8,631 new cases of COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 7,531.0 from 7,402.9 on Monday.

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 (4,828) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,718) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,569) decreased from the day before.

The Department of Public Health reported adding 71,307 COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, up from 18,466 on Monday, and the largest number added in a single day since the Department began reporting the data on Jan. 4.

The total number of vaccinations in the state is now 746,274. It isn’t possible to know how many of those are first and second doses.

An additional 117,025 doses are shown as shipped in the Tuesday report.

Data still are not being released at the county level.

The Department of Community Health on Tuesday listed 715 long-term care facilities in the state with COVID-19 among their residents and/or staff, up from 713 on Monday.

Charts

The charts below show the seven-day rolling average of the addition of COVID-19 molecular and antigen cases combined for the Northeast Health District and for the state of Georgia since Nov. 3, when the state first began reporting antigen test results.

The data in the charts come from the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report and have been updated for the 2:50 p.m. Report on Tuesday.

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