Health & Fitness
NE Health District Reflects State--Jumps In COVID Cases, Deaths
The Department of Public Health reported one COVID-19 death in Clarke County. The Department of Community Health Reported two more.
The 10-county Northeast Health District does not always reflect the general patterns of the state when the Department of Public Health releases its Daily Status Report on COVID-19 each day, but it did so on Tuesday.
The day the state recorded a record 137 deaths, the Northeast Health District recorded two–not a record number, but enough to push the seven-day rolling average of added deaths to 1.9, a level last reached on July 16.
When the state added 3,639 new cases on Monday, pushing the seven-day rolling average up to its highest level in more than a week, the Northeast Health District added 179 cases, pushing up the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 156.0 from 150.6 on Monday and 151.0 on Sunday.
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Every county in the 10-county District added cases on Tuesday, with Oconee County adding nine cases and Clarke County adding 36.
The two deaths in the District were of a 62-year-old male in Clarke County with a chronic condition and of an 88-year-old female in Jackson County without a chronic condition.
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The Department of Community Health, in its Tuesday Long-Term Care Facility Report, listed two additional deaths at the University Nursing and Rehab Center in Athens-Clarke County, and the Monday report had listed a death at a nursing home in Greene County.
Deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Long-Term Care Facility Report often are not reflected in the Daily Status Report.
The Long-Term Care Facility Report on Tuesday also added a COVID-19 Positive Staff at the nursing home in Greene County that had the death reported on Monday and at a separate personal care home in Greene County.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday reported that six of the 70 Critical Care Beds at area hospitals were unoccupied, down from 10 on Monday.
Anisa Sullivan Jimenez, director of Communications for Oconee County Schools, said on Tuesday morning that “We have two clinically suspected cases total” but no confirmed COVID-19 cases at the schools.
For more on the story, with charts summarizing regional and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.