Health & Fitness
Northeast Health District Adds Two Deaths Attributed To COVID-19
The Daily Status Report listed 111 new COVID-19 confirmed cases in the Northeast Health District on Wednesday.
At the regional and state level, growth in the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases eased slightly on Wednesday, but the number of new deaths attributed to the disease increased.
The 10-county Northeast Health District, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties, added 111 new cases in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Wednesday, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases dropped from 124.3 on Tuesday to 121.1 on Wednesday.
Oconee County added 10 cases on Wednesday and Clarke County added 20. In the last 21 days–a broad definition of active cases–Oconee County has added 155 cases, and Clarke County has added 732.
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The Daily Status Report added two new deaths attributed to COVID-19 on Wednesday, a 67-year-old male in Barrow County with a chronic condition and a 42-year-old female in Greene County without a known chronic condition.
The Daily Status Report also removed a death from Oglethorpe County–of a 63-year-old female without a known condition. The death, the Daily Status Report data suggest, was moved to another venue, but it isn’t clear which one that was.
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The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District dropped to 1.0 on Wednesday from 1.6 on Tuesday. The number of added deaths used in that calculation was one.
The Department of Community Affairs on Wednesday removed the two deaths at the Pruitt Health Athens Heritage nursing home in Clarke County it had included on Monday in its list of COVID-19 deaths at area long-term care facilities.
The Department of Community Health has at least seven additional deaths in Jackson County reported since June 29 in its Long-Term Care Facility Reports that have not been included in the Daily Status Report of the Department of Public Health.
The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported on Wednesday that eight Critical Care Beds were available at area hospitals, down from nine on Tuesday.
For data for the whole state, and for charts summarizing local and state data, please go to Oconee County Observations.