Health & Fitness
Oconee, Clarke, Region Add COVID Cases; Sales Tax Revenue Drops
Nine of the 10 counties in the NE Health District added at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 in the 24-hours ending at noon Thursday.
Nine of the 10 counties in the Northeast Health District added at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 in the 24-hours ending at noon on Thursday, and the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report showed the district as a whole adding 33 new cases.
Those 33 cases compare with 32 a day earlier and 27 on Thursday of last week. The seven-day rolling average of added cases rose from 23.0 to 23.9.
Oconee County added a single case, and Clarke County added four cases. The total number or recorded cases in the Northeast Health District is 728.
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Oconee County Sheriff Scott Berry reported that the Georgia Emergency Management Agent added two new Active Cases to his list on Wednesday but none on Thursday. Because cases are removed after 21 days, the number of Active Cases in Oconee County on Thursday is down to 13 from 15 on Wednesday.
The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District remained unchanged at 27.
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Across Georgia, the number of newly recorded COVID-19 cases increased by 759 to 26,033, with the seven-day rolling average down from 647.7 to 645.9.
The number of deaths increased by 55 to 1,107, with the seven-day rolling average increasing from 30.9 to 33.6.
The Georgia Department of Revenue released its sales tax distribution data on Thursday for March, and both Oconee and Clarke counties, as well as the state as a whole, recorded drops of about 10 percent from March of 2019.
A comparison of raw data on number of added confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the state on a daily basis with the number based on new estimates of when the disease was first identified shows that the primary effect is to move the cases back in time.
The Daily Status Report contains a chart based on these recalculated data that suggests a dramatic drop in cases, but a closer examination of the data indicates it is premature to reach that conclusion based on the data presented.
For more on the story, with charts summarizing the data from the Department of Public Health, please go to Oconee County Observations.