The Northeast Health District recorded a record 12 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 with the release on Tuesday of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
The added deaths resulted in a jump in the seven-day rolling average of added, confirmed deaths to 7.7 deaths per day, up from 6.6 deaths per day on Monday.
The Daily Status Report also listed 489 new COVID-19 cases, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 476.9 from 494.3 on Monday.
The Daily Status Report listed the death of a 72-year-old male in Clarke County without a chronic condition. The Monday Daily Status Report also had listed a death in Clarke County, and the county now has 78 deaths from the disease.
Barrow County had five deaths listed in the Tuesday Daily Status Report: of a 79-year-old female with a chronic condition, of an 83-year-old male with a chronic condition, of an 88-year-old male with a chronic condition, of an 89-yer-old male with a chronic condition, and of a 90-plus-year-old female without a chronic condition.
Barrow County now has 82 confirmed deaths from COVID-19.
Greene County recorded the death in the Daily Status Report of a 90-plus-year-old male without a chronic condition, bringing to 28 the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the county.
Jackson County had a death of an 84-year-old female without a known chronic condition listed in the Tuesday Daily Status Report, the 79th confirmed death from COVID-19 in the county.
The Daily Status Report listed four deaths in Walton County, which also had recorded a death on Monday. The Tuesday deaths were of a 74-year-old female without a chronic condition, a 79-year-old male with a chronic condition, a 90-plus-year old female without a chronic condition, and a 90-plus-year-old male without a chronic condition.
Walton County now has 108 confirmed deaths from COVID-19, the largest number of any of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District.
The Daily Status Report also listed two “probable deaths” from COVID-19–in Oconee and Morgan counties. The Report does not list characteristics of “probable deaths.”
Cases
The 489 added cases of COVID-19 compares with the addition of 611 cases on Tuesday of last week, resulting in the drop in the seven-day rolling average. That average has dropped six days in a row.
The rolling average of added deaths and cases are moving in opposite directions, as deaths usually lag cases.
Oconee County added 35 COVID-19 cases in the Tuesday Daily Status Report, and Clarke County added 92. The seven-day-rolling average in Oconee County increased slightly to 34.9 from 34.4 on Monday, while the Clarke County rolling average dropped to 91.7 from 94.7 on Monday.
Oconee County Schools informed parents of at least four new positive COVID-19 tests in schools on Tuesday.
Announcements were sent to parents of students at Malcom Bridge Elementary School and Malcom Bridge Middle School, Oconee County Primary School and Oconee County Elementary School.
The announcements bring to 16 the number of cases of COVID-19 in the schools since the weekly tally released to the public by the schools on Friday, when a record 40 Active Cases were reported.
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 (273) decreased by eight from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (88) increased by nine from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (58) increased by 12 from the day before.
The number of COVID-19 patients has now dropped three days in a row.
State Data
Across the State, the Daily Status Report listed 170 new confirmed COVID-19 deaths, the largest number ever recorded on a single day, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 118.3 from 114.7 on Monday.
Eighty-eight of the added deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence jumped sharply on Tuesday over Monday.
The Daily Status Report also listed 52 “probably deaths” from COVID-19, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable deaths” increased to 14.1 from 12.7 on Monday.
The Daily Status Report added 7,734 new cases of COVID-19 across the state on Tuesday and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 8,089.9 from 8,324.7 on Monday. The rolling average has dropped six days in a row.
The decrease in cases does not seem to be the result of decreased testing.
The seven-day rolling average of added molecular tests has remained relatively stable in recent weeks and was 35,839.3, up from 35,606.6 on Monday.
While the positivity rate for molecular tests reported on Monday was up to 17.5 from 16.0 on Monday, the seven-day rolling average of test positivity has been falling and was down to 16.6 on Tuesday from 16.9 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 (5,515) decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,784) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,653) increased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health reported adding 61,764 new COVID-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, the largest number ever added on a single day, and the total number of persons vaccinated in the state is now 484,775, or 4.5 percent of the state’s population.
The Department of Community Health did not release a Long-Term Care Facility Report as of late on Tuesday and has not issued a Report since Friday.
Charts
The charts below show the seven-day rolling average of the addition of COVID-19 molecular and antigen cases 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 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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