Health & Fitness
COVID Cases Drop In NE Health District; Critical Care Bed Use Up
The Daily Status Report listed 141 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, but the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped.
For the second day in a row, the Northeast Health District added fewer confirmed COVID-19 cases than it had on the same day a week earlier, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped to 150.7 on Tuesday from 158.6 on Monday. The average had been 160.4 on Sunday.
Across the state, the number of added cases of COVID-19 seems to have plateaued, and the 10-county Northeast Health District now may be following suit.
The District added 141 new COVID-19 cases in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Tuesday, with each of the 10 counties adding a least one case.
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The District added one death attributed to COVID-19 in the Daily Status Report. That was of a 73-year-old male in Walton County with a chronic condition.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths increased from 0.6 on Monday to 0.7 on Tuesday.
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The Department of Community Health reported one additional COVID-19 Positive Staff member at Arbor Terrace personal care home in Athens-Clarke County and at a nursing home in Jackson County.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported as of noon on Tuesday 69 Critical Care Beds in use and only one Critical Care Bed available at the area’s nine hospitals.
For key state data and charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.