The Northeast Health District added 64 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and five confirmed deaths from the disease, resulting in a decrease in the rolling average of added cases and an increase in the rolling average of added deaths.
Two of the confirmed deaths listed in the Wednesday Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health were in Clarke County. Those deaths were of 56 year-old and 60-year-old females, neither of whom had a chronic condition.
The other confirmed deaths listed by the Department of Public Health on Wednesday were of an 80-year-old male in Greene County without a known chronic condition, an 86-year-old male in Jackson County without a chronic condition, and a 90-plus-year-old male in Madison County without a chronic condition.
Clarke County now has 131 deaths from COVID-19, Greene County has 54, Jackson County 134, and Madison County 45.
The 10-county Northeast Health District has 885 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, and the five deaths added on Wednesday resulted in a seven-day rolling average of added deaths of 2.0, up from 1.6 on Tuesday.
The Department of Community Health also listed a death from COVID-19 of a resident of Great Oaks personal care home in Walton County. No details of the deceased are listed in the Report.
The Department of Public Health, which distributes the Department of Community Health Long-Term Care Facility Report, does not consider the deaths reported by the Department of Community Health as confirmed COVID-19 deaths.
Cases, Hospital Report, Vaccinations
With the addition of the 64 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the seven-day rolling average of added cases fell to 55.0 per day from 58.0 on Tuesday.
Oconee County added four cases, and the seven-day rolling average was unchanged at 4.4 added cases per day. Clarke County added 15 cases, and its seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 12.9 from 13.3 on Tuesday.
The University of Georgia on Wednesday, in its COVID-19 Health And Exposure Update, listed 31 positive tests conducted in Athens-Clarke County and 22 positive tests elsewhere in the system. These figures had been 19 and 15 a week earlier.
The University also reported that fewer walk-in tests for those without symptoms had been conducted at Legion Field–846 in the week ending April 4 compared to 1,005 in the week ending March 28. The positivity rate for the tests ending April 4 was 1.4, versus 0.9 a week earlier.
The Department of Community Health also listed in its Wednesday Long-Term Care Facility Report two new cases of COVID-19 among the staff at Social Circle Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Walton County.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (44) increased by six from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (56) increased by three from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (38) increased by 13 from the day before.
The Department of Public Health, through its Vaccine Distribution Dashboard on Wednesday, reported data showing that 13.0 percent of the population of the Northeast Health District is now fully vaccinated, up from 12.7 on Tuesday
The figure is 19.9 percent in Oconee County and 14.0 percent in Clarke County. Those percentages had been 19.5 in Oconee and 13.6 in Clarke on Tuesday.
I am using my own calculation of the percentages, based on the population figures given by the Department of Public Health in the Daily Status Report. The dashboard lists a higher percentage for Oconee County.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list much lower figures for the percent vaccinated in the two counties.
State Data
The Daily Status Report added 67 confirmed COVID-19 deaths across the state on Wednesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths fell to 32.3 from 33.6 on Tuesday.
Only 14 of the 67 added deaths occurred in the last 14 days, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dated by day of occurrence increased slightly on Wednesday from Tuesday.
The Department of Public Health removed one death from its list of those caused by COVID-19 with the release of Wednesday’s Daily Status Report.
The Department of Public Health added one “probable” death from COVID-19 in Wednesday’s Daily Status Report, and the seven-day rolling average of added “probable” deaths was 4.3, up from 3.3 on Tuesday. The Department of Public Health had removed six “probable” deaths on Wednesday of last week.
Across the state, the Department of Public Health added 1,616 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases decreased to 1,344.0 from 1,399.9 on Tuesday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 patients (1,154) at the state’s hospitals increased from the day before, the number of ICU beds in use (2,337) increased from the day before, and the number of adult ventilators in use (1,003) increased from the day before.
The Department of Public Health, through its updated Vaccine Distribution Dashboard, on Wednesday reported data showing that 14.3 percent of the state’s residents are fully vaccinated.
The Dashboard lists the figure as 15 percent, but 14.3 is correct based on the state’s population as reported by the Department of Public Health in the Daily Status Report and the raw number of persons fully vaccinated listed on the dashboard.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the figure as 14.1 percent, using a smaller number of vaccinated individuals and a smaller estimate of the state’s population.
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 Wednesday.
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