Health & Fitness
Oconee County Add Third COVID-19 Death In Two Days
The deaths put Oconee near the top of the Northeast Health District in deaths per population.
The Northeast Health District added 108 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday in the Department of Health Daily Status Report, pushing up the seven-day rolling average of added cases for the seventh day in a row.
The District added three deaths attributed to COVID-19, including one in Oconee County, which had added two deaths from the disease on Friday.
The Oconee County death was of an 83-year-old female without a chronic condition. The death on Saturday brings to 30 the number of deaths in the County attributed to the disease.
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The other deaths were of a 77-year-old male in Oglethorpe county without a chronic condition and of an 80-year-old male in Walton County without a known chronic condition.
The total number of deaths in the District now stands at 298. With the addition of the three deaths on Saturday, the seven-day rolling average of added deaths dropped from 1.9 on Friday to 1.7. The District had added four deaths on Saturday of last week.
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Every county in the Northeast Health District added at least three COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with Oconee County adding that number and Clarke County adding 22.
The addition of the 108 cases pushed the seven-day rolling average of added cases to 104.4 on Saturday from 99.4 on Friday. The seven-day rolling average dropped just slightly for Oconee County on Saturday and increased just slightly for Clarke County.
Oconee County, with the deaths in the last two days, continues to have an exceptionally high death rate per population–one of the highest in the District–and an exceptionally low number of cases per population–in fact, the lowest in the District.
Clarke County, in contrast, has one of the lowest death rates per population but the highest case rate per population.
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 (50) decreased by four from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (60) was the same as the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (24) decreased by six from the day before.
For more local reporting with charts and for state data with charts, please go to Oconee County Observations.