7-Day Rolling Averages Of COVID Deaths, Cases Drop In NE District

The seven-day rolling average of added COVID-19 cases and deaths declined in the Northeast Health District on Wednesday with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.

The 10-county District added no deaths attributed to the virus, and the seven-day rolling average of added deaths declined from 2.1 on Tuesday to 1.7 on Wednesday.

The District added 160 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with nine of them in Oconee County and 80 in Clarke County.

Every county in the District added at least one case, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped from 160.9 on Tuesday to 154.1 on Wednesday.

The University of Georgia released its weekly COVID-19 Health and Exposure Update for Week 5 of the semester, covering the dates of Sept. 7 through 11, and the total number of cases dropped from 1,490 for Week 4 to 421 for Week 5.

The Department of Public Health on Wednesday reported that of the 830 molecular tests in Clarke County for which it had data on verdicts, 8.1 percent were positive, and the seven-day rolling average for that percentage was 11.0, down from 11.5 on Tuesday.

For the 74 molecular tests in Oconee County for which the Department of Public Health had data, 10.8 percent on Wednesday were positive. The seven-day rolling average for Oconee County on Wednesday was 8.1 percent, up from 7.4 percent on Tuesday.

The Department of Community Health reported two new COVID-19 positive staff at long-term care facilities in the 10-county Northeast Health District. The two staff cases were at two nursing homes in Elbert County.

The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) on Wednesday reported that area hospitals had 58 COVID-19 patients, down from 64 on Tuesday, 64 ICU beds in use, down from 66 on Tuesday, and 27 adult ventilators in use, up from 26 on Tuesday.

For more local reporting and for state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.