Health & Fitness
NE Health District Adds One COVID-19 Death and 162 New Cases
A demographic analysis of cases to date shows that more than half of those in Clarke County are aged 18-29. In Oconee, it is a quarter.
The Northeast Health District added a death from COVID-19 on Saturday and 162 new cases of the disease as the Department of Public Health released is Daily Status Report.
The death was of a female in Walton County without a chronic condition identified as 90 or more years of age. The death brings to 77 the number attributed to COVID-19 in Walton County and to 351 the number of deaths from the disease in the 10-County Northeast Health District.
The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District dropped to 1.4 on Saturday from 1.9 on Friday.
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The Daily Status Report on Saturday also listed a probable death in Jackson County. The Report does not list details of that death.
The Daily Status Report listed 145 new confirmed cases based on molecular tests, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped from 134.9 on Friday to 132.3 on Saturday.
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Every county in the 10-county Northeast Health District added cases except Greene. Oconee County added eight cases and Clarke County added 23, and the seven-day rolling average for Oconee County was unchanged from the day before while it fell in Clarke County.
The Department of Public Health also listed 17 cases based on the rapid, and less reliable, antigen test, and the seven-day rolling average of added antigen-positive cases dropped to 24.1 on Saturday from 46.6 on Friday.
Both Oconee and Clarke counties added a single antigen case.
A demographic analysis of cumulative confirmed cases in Oconee County and Clarke County shows that just more than a quarter of the cases (26.2 percent) to date in Oconee County are aged 18-29, but a majority of the Clarke County cases (56.8 percent) are of that university student age group.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Saturday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (81) decreased by four from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (65) was the same as the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (30) decreased by one from the day before.
For more analysis of the age differences in cases in Oconee and Clarke County and for state data, please click through to Oconee County Observations.