The Northeast Health District added nine confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, pushing the seven-day rolling average of added confirmed deaths to 3.3 per day from 2.3 the day before.
Three of those confirmed deaths were in Clarke County, which had added two confirmed deaths from the disease on Wednesday.
The District added 94 new cases of COVID-19 in the Thursday Department of Public Health Daily Status Report, and the seven rolling average of added cases decreased from Wednesday.
The three Clarke County deaths were of a 60-year-old male, a 63-year-old male, and an 81-year-old male, none of whom had a chronic condition.
The three confirmed deaths bring to 125 the number in the county attributed to COVID-19 and increased the number of deaths per 100,000 population to 96.3, up from 92.5 on Tuesday.
Even with the increase, however, Clarke County’s death rate is the lowest of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District.
Barrow County also added three deaths in Thursday’s Daily Status Report, of a 40-year-old male with a chronic condition, an 81-year-old male without a chronic condition, and an 85-year-old male with a chronic condition.
The other deaths were of a 47-year-old female in Morgan County with a chronic condition, an 81-year-old male in Walton County with a chronic condition, and a 90-plus-year-old male without a chronic condition.
The nine confirmed deaths bring to 855 the number in the Northeast Health District. The District had added eight confirmed deaths on Wednesday.
Cases, Hospital Report, Vaccinations
With the addition of the 94 cases of COVID-19 in Thursday’s Daily Status Report, the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 75.0 from 80.7 on Wednesday.
Oconee County added seven cases, and Clarke County added 14. The seven-day rolling average of added cases in Oconee County dropped to 8.9 from 10.4 on Wednesday, while the average dropped to 11.7 in Clarke County from 12.1.
North Oconee High School Principal Philip Brown sent an email at 7:02 p.m. on Thursday to parents of students at the school informing them that “an individual” at the school had tested positive for COVID-19.
This is the third “individual” who has tested positive at North Oconee High School since last Friday and at least the seventh individual across the system who has tested positive in that time period, according to emails parents have forwarded to me.
The Department of Community Health did not report any new COVID-19 cases or deaths on Thursday in the 40 long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District covered by the Long-Term Care Facility Report.
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 (52) increased by six from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (65) increased by five from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (34) decreased by one from the day before.
The Department of Public Health shut down entirely its Vaccine Distribution Dashboard on Thursday until it can “resolve system and data transfer issues.” The data have not been updated since Sunday.
State Data
The Daily Status Report added 82 confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Thursday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 41.7 from 38.1 on Wednesday.
Sixteen of the 82 added deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by occurrence increased on Thursday from Wednesday.
The Department of Public Health eliminated three death it had previously attributed to COVID-19 from its archive of deaths from the disease.
The Department of Public Health added 12 “probable” deaths from COVID-19 in Thursday’s Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths increased to 6.9 from 5.9 on Wednesday.
Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 2,092 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,630.3 from 1,672.6 on Wednesday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Thursday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,241) at the state’s hospitals increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,446) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,051) increased from the day before.
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 Thursday.
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