Monday, March 29, 2021

State Health Reports List COVID-19 Deaths In Oconee, Clarke Counties; Rolling Average Added Confirmed Deaths Up In Health District

***Rolling Average Added COVID-19 Cases Falls***

With the addition of confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Clarke and Morgan counties in the Monday Department of Public Health Daily Status Report, the seven-day rolling average of added confirmed deaths in the Northeast Health District increased slightly on Monday.

In addition, the Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed one new resident death from COVID-19 at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation nursing home in Oconee County.

The Department of Public Health added 45 new cases of the disease in the Monday Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the District fell on Monday from Sunday.

The Clarke County confirmed death was of a 52-year-old female with a chronic condition. The death brings to 128 the number of deaths in Clarke County from the disease.

With the added death, the number of deaths per 100,000 population in Clarke County increased to 98.6, still the lowest in the District.

The Morgan County death was of an 82-year-old male without a chronic condition. Morgan County now has 22 deaths, and the death rate per 100,000 population is 114.2, the second lowest in the District.

The two new confirmed deaths bring to 869 the total for the 10-county District and increased the seven-day rolling average of added deaths to 4.4 from 4.3 on Sunday. The District added only one death last Monday.

Sundays and Mondays are typically days with few added cases and deaths because many labs and medical facilities do not report to the Department of Public Health on the weekends.

The death at High Shoals Health and Rehabilitation, 3450 New High Shoals Road in the west of the county, brings to nine the number reported at that facility since the onset of the pandemic. The Department of Community Health does not list characteristics of the deceased.

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 as “confirmed” when they are reported.

Cases, Hospital Report, Vaccines

With the addition of the 45 new cases of COVID-19 in the Monday Daily Status Report, the seven-day rolling average of added cases in the Northeast Health District fell to 54.3 from 55.6 on Sunday.

Oconee County added only two cases, and Clarke County added only four. The seven-day rolling average of added cases in Oconee County dropped to 5.1 from 6.0 on Sunday. In Clarke County, the seven-day rolling average fell to 12.4 from 12.7 on Sunday.

North Oconee High School Principal Philip Brown sent an email at 7 p.m. on Monday 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 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week as well.

The Department of Community Health on Monday did not report any new cases of COVID-19 among the residents or staff of the 40 long-term care facilities in the Northeast Health District covered by its report.

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (51) increased by six from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (52) decreased by five from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (33) decreased by four from the day before.

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 at the county level.

State Data

The Daily Status Report added 36 confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased to 52.1 from 50.7 on Sunday.

Ten of the 36 added deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by day of the death fell just slightly from Sunday.

The Department of Public Health did not add any “probable” deaths from COVID-19 in Monday’s Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths remained unchanged at 7.7.

The Daily Status Report had not listed any new “probable” deaths last Monday as well.

Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 1,256 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 1,560.0 from 1,494.9 on Sunday.

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Monday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,204) at the state’s hospitals increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,264) decreased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,000) decreased from the day before.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday that 12.0 percent of the Georgia’s population is now fully vaccinated, and 15.7 percent of those 18 years old and older are fully vaccinated, up from 11.9 and 15.6 on Sunday.

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 Monday.

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