Saturday, April 01, 2023

Oconee, Clarke, Northeast Health District As Whole Report Drop In COVID-19 Cases

***No New Confirmed Death From Disease***

The Georgia Department of Public Health reported that the Northeast Health District added 78 new cases of COVID-19 in the week ending on March 29, based on the Department’s electronic tracking system.

That number of cases added a week earlier had been 135.

The Department of Public Health reported no new confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District in its report on Wednesday.

The Department of Public Health had reported one new confirmed death from the disease in the Northeast Health District on Wednesday of last week. That death had been in Oconee County.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rated the Transmission Rate for COVID-19 in Oconee County as Moderate and in Clarke County as Substantial, the same as a week earlier.

Weekly Report

Although the Department of Public Health is releasing a report only weekly, it is gathering data on a daily basis, and the weekly report includes a data file containing case counts each day, ending on a Wednesday.

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The Department of Public Health switched to weekly, rather than daily, case counts in April of last year in part because of a concern that its counts under-represent the actual number of cases.

At-home test results are not included in the electronic reporting system.

The average number of added cases per day in the last seven days ending on March 29 in the Northeast Health District was 11.1, down from 19.3 last week.

Oconee County added only five cases in the seven days ending on Wednesday. The county added eight cases in the seven days ending on March 22.

Clarke County added 25 new cases in the seven days ending on March 29. It had added 44 cases in the week ending on March 22.

The unstandardized rolling average of added cases in Oconee County on March 29 was 0.3. It had been 0.9 on March 22.

The unstandardized seven-day rolling average of added cases in Clarke County on March 29 was 4.0. It had been 5.3 on March 22.

Deaths

The Northeast Health District now has recorded 1,750 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 since February of 2020, or 330.1 deaths per 100,000 population.

Clarke County, with 247 COVID-19 deaths, has the lowest rate of deaths per 100,000 population in the Northeast Health District (192.0), followed by Oconee County, with 105 confirmed deaths, or  251.2 deaths per 100,000 population.

The Northeast Health District reported 195 “probable” deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, the same as last week.

The Georgia Department of Public Health’s 10-county Northeast Health District includes Oconee and Clarke counties. The other counties are Barrow, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oglethorpe, and Walton.

Additional Data

The Georgia Department of Public Health is no longer reporting data on COVID-19 hospitalizations at area hospitals, and the data available from the U.S. Health and Human Services are two weeks old when released.

The Centers for Disease Control and prevention reports the Transmission Rate of COVID-19 in Oconee County as Moderate and Clarke County as Substantial, based on total number of new cases per 100,000 population in the last seven days and the percentage of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests that are positive during the last seven days, ending on Thursday.

Oconee County had been rated as Moderate and Clarke as Substantial in terms of Rate of Transmission last week.

Greene, Barrow, Jackson, and Madison counties also were rated as Moderate, and Walton County was rated as Low.

Oglethorpe and Morgan Counties were rated as High, and Elbert County was rated as Substantial.

The CDC scale is High, Substantial, Moderate, or Low.

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