The Northeast Health District added six confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in Thursday’s Department of Public Health Daily Status Report and 145 new cases of the disease.
For the second day in a row, two of the added confirmed deaths were in Clarke County.
Because the Department of Public Health also eliminated a death in Jackson County previously listed as caused by COVID-19, the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the District fell to 2.6 on Thursday from 2.7 on Wednesday.
The District had added six deaths on Thursday of last week, so the rolling average would have been unchanged if the Jackson County death has not been eliminated from the list.
The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the 10-county District now stands at 818.
The Clarke County deaths were of a 68-year-old male without a known chronic condition and of a 75-year-old male without a chronic condition. The county now has 121 deaths from the disease.
The Daily Status Report included two deaths in Barrow County. These were of an 84-year-old male without a chronic condition and of a 90-plus-year-old male without a chronic condition. Barrow also now has 121 deaths from COVID-19.
The Department of Public Health listed among the confirmed death from COVID-19 a 56-year-old female in Madison County without a known chronic condition and an 86-year-old male in Walton County, also without a known chronic condition.
These were the 41st death from COVID-19 in Madison County and the 213th death from the disease in Walton County.
The Jackson County death removed from the list of those attributed to COVID-19 was of a 62-year-old female without a chronic condition.
The Daily Status Report added one “probable” death from the disease in Thursday’s Daily Status Report. That death was in Morgan County, bringing to 77 the number of “probable” deaths in the District and to five the number in Morgan County.
The Daily Status Report does not list characteristics of the “probable” deaths.
Cases, Hospital Report, Vaccinations
With the addition of the 145 new cases of COVID-19 in Thursday’s Daily Status Report, the seven-day rolling average or added cases dropped to 112.4 from 115.0 on Wednesday.
Oconee County added seven cases, and its seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped slightly to 9.4 from 9.6 on Wednesday. Clarke County added 26 cases, and its seven-day rolling average of added cases increased slightly to 19.0 from 18.6 on Wednesday.
North Oconee High School Principal Philip Brown sent parents of students at his school an email at 7:02 p.m. on Thursday informing them that “two individuals” at the school tested positive for COVID-19.
Brown has sent messages regarding six “individuals” at his school since the school system issued its report last Friday showing increases in the number of cases and quarantines at the county’s schools.
After a two-day gap, the Department of Community Health issued its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Thursday. The Report included no new COVID-19 cases or deaths at long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District.
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 (55) decreased by two from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (60) increased by one from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (35) increased by three from the day before.
The Northeast Health District added 3,888 new vaccinations on Thursday up from 2,568 COVID-19 vaccinations on Wednesday.
State Data
The Daily Status Report added 86 confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Thursday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped to 49.0 from 53.0 on Wednesday.
Thirty of the confirmed 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 eight deaths it has previously listed as confirmed deaths from COVID-19. Included was the death in Jackson County.
The Department of Public Health added three “probable” death from COVID-19 in Thursday’s Daily Status Report, including the one in Morgan County, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths dropped to 6.4 from 7.7 on Wednesday..
Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 1,877 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,973.4 from 2,144.6 on Wednesday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Thursday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,458) at the state’s hospitals decreased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,432) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,121) decreased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health reported administration of 62,645 doses of COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday, down from 70,264 on Wednesday.
The Department of Public Health did not report any new allocations or shipments of doses of COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday.
As of Thursday, 99.0 percent of the allocated doses had been shipped, and 76.1 percent of the doses shipped to the state had been administered.
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.
 |
| Click To Enlarge |
No comments:
Post a Comment