The Northeast Health District added only 35 new COVID-19 cases and no new confirmed deaths from the disease on Tuesday with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
The Department of Community Health, however, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report on Tuesday, listed two new deaths at The Landing Senior Living personal care home on U.S. 78 in Oconee County.
The Department of Community Health had listed a death at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home, 3450 New High Shoals Road in the west of the county, in Monday’s Long-Term Care Facility Report.
The Department of Community Health does not list characteristics of the deceased.
None of these three Oconee County deaths at long-term care facilities has appeared in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.
The Department of Public Health distributes the Long-Term Care Facility Report produced by the Department of Community Health, but the Department of Public Health does not consider the deaths in the Department of Community Health Report to be “confirmed” COVID-19 deaths, though the facilities report them as such.
The seven-day rolling average of added confirmed deaths remained unchanged, at 4.4 deaths per day, as the District did not have any new deaths listed in the Daily Status Report last Tuesday.
Cases
The seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 64.6 from 70.1 on Monday. Last Tuesday, the District had added 74 new cases of COVID-19.
Oconee County added three cases in Tuesday’s Daily Status Report, and Clarke County added five. The seven-day rolling average of added cases fell to 4.6 from 5.1 on Monday in Oconee County and to 10.4 from 12.4 in Clarke County.
The Department of Community Health reported seven new cases of COVID-19 among residents of The Landing, 2881 Monroe Highway (U.S.78), in Tuesday’s Long-Term Care Facility Report, and 16 staff cases at the facility.
Tuesday was the first time The Landing has been included in the Long-Term Care Facility Report.
At the end of February, someone sent me an email message dated Feb. 10 from the administration of The Landing announcing that “ we’ve had a total of (3) covid+ cases in our community.”
I contacted the Department of Community Health inquiring about that announcement, but I never received a reply.
Long-term care facilities self-report to the Department of Community Health, and the numbers The Landing reported on Tuesday are supposed to be cumulative, meaning that, across time it has had two deaths from COVID-19, seven positive resident cases, and 16 positive staff cases.
The Tuesday report lists 31 residents in the facility.
North Oconee High School Principal Philip Brown sent an email at 7:02 p.m. on Tuesday informing parents of students at the school of “an individual” at the school who had tested positive for COVID-19.
Brown informed parents at North Oconee of positive tests at the school five of the last seven evenings. Each report was of a single positive test.
Hospital Report, Vaccines
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 (53) increased by two from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (60) increased by eight from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (28) decreased by five from the day before.
The number of COVID-19 patients in area hospitals has increased both of the last two days.
The Vaccine Distribution Dashboard of the Department of Public Health has not functioned since Sunday of last week. The Department of Public Health cites “ongoing system and data transfer issues” as the explanation.
At present, Georgia is one of only seven states in the country not providing vaccination data by county.
State Data
The Daily Status Report added 12 confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Tuesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths decreased to 51.4 from 52.1 on Monday.
Only one of the added deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by day of the death fell from Monday.
The Department of Public Health eliminated two deaths previously recorded as attributed to COVID-19.
The Department of Public Health added 15 “probable” deaths from COVID-19 in Tuesday’s Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths was 7.6, down from 7.7 on Monday.
Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 1,431 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,485.7 from 1,560.0 on Monday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Tuesday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,221) at the state’s hospitals increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,327) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,006) increased from the day before.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday that 12.1 percent of the Georgia’s population is now fully vaccinated, and 15.8 percent of those 18 years old and older are fully vaccinated, up from 12.0 and 15.7 on Monday.
Georgia ranks second from last among states in the U.S. in number of vaccinations per population and percent of the population fully vaccinated.
Alabama is below Georgia in number of vaccinations per population, and Utah is below Georgia in percent of the population vaccinated.
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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