Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 107 New COVID Cases In Sunday Report
Hispanics are over-represented in cases of COVID-19 in Oconee and Clarke counties.
The Northeast Health District added 107 confirmed COVID-19 cases based on molecular tests with release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Sunday. The Daily Status Report listed no new confirmed deaths attributed to the disease.
The seven-day rolling average of added cases in the District increased to 135.9 on Sunday from 132.3 on Saturday.
Every county in the 10-county District added at least one case. Oconee County added 12 cases and Clarke County added 16. In both counties, the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased on Sunday from Saturday.
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The Daily Status Report eliminated previously listed cases based on antigen rapid tests on Sunday, including two in Oconee County, but the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 24.6 on Sunday from 24.1 on Saturday because the Daily Status Report had eliminated 4 cases on Sunday of last week.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District remained unchanged at 1.4. The Daily Status Report had listed no deaths on last Sunday as well.
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The Daily Status Report did list one probable death from COVID-19–in Elbert County–but provided no details on the deceased.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Sunday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (79) decreased by two from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (63) decreased by two from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (30) was unchanged from the day before.
The Department of Public Health has data on the ethnicity of about a quarter of the confirmed cases in both Clarke and Oconee counties and on the race of more than 80 percent of the cases in both counties.
Hispanics and African-Americans seem to be over-represented among the cases of COVID-19 in Oconee County, given the available data.
Hispanics seem to be over-represented among the cases in Clarke County while African-Americans are under-represented.
For more details on the demographic analysis and for state data, please click through to Oconee County Observations.