Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds 99 COVID-19 Cases, One New Death
Seven-day rolling average of cases up in District and in Clarke County. COVID Patients, ICU bed use, ventilator use up.
The Northeast Health District added one death from COVID-19 with the release of the Daily Status Report by the Department of Public Health on Thursday and 99 newly confirmed cases of the disease.
The District has added at least one death every day but two going back to Sept. 25, and the seven day rolling average was 2.0 deaths per day. That average is unchanged from Wednesday.
The death was of a 77-year-old female in Walton County with a chronic condition. Walton County now has 64 deaths from the disease out of the total of 281 in the 10-county Northeast Health District.
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With the addition of the 99 cases, the seven-day rolling average of added cases increased to 85.6 cases per day from 82.7 on Wednesday.
Every county in the district added cases with the exception of Greene County. Oconee County added just two cases, but Clarke County added 42.
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The seven-day rolling average of added cases for Oconee County dropped to 3.4 cases per day on Thursday from 3.6. The seven-day rolling average for Clarke County increased for the third day in a row to 29.4. The average had been 26.6 on Wednesday.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Wednesday the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (53) was an increase from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (64) increased from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (31) increased from the day before.
The Department of Community Health, in its Long-Term Care Facility Report for Thursday, reported three additional cases of COVID-19 positive residents at the Northeast Health District’s long-term care facilities and two additional cases of COVID-19 positive staff.
Voting Update: As of the end of the day on Thursday, 4,514 Oconee County voters had participated in in-person early voting at the Civic Center. The Board of Elections and Registration has received an additional 3,223 absentee ballots.
Total registration for the county is 31,594 (30,033 active and 1,561 inactive), meaning that 24.5 percent of the county’s eligible voters already has cast a ballot.
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