Oconee County Added Another COVID-19 Death On Tuesday

Oconee County added another death from COVID-19 with the release of the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report on Tuesday.

The Oconee death, of a 75-year-old female without a chronic condition, brings to 15 the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the county.

Clarke County, according to the Tuesday Daily Status Report, also has 15 deaths attributed to COVID-19, but the Department of Community Health on Monday listed two additional deaths at the Pruitt Health Athens Heritage nursing home on Clarke County that do not appear in the Daily Status Report.

The Daily Status Report listed a total of four COVID-19 deaths in the Tuesday report, bringing the seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the 10-county Northeast Health District to 1.6 from 1.0 on Monday.

Every County except Morgan added at least one confirmed COVID-19 case in the Tuesday Daily Status Report, with Oconee County adding 10 cases and Clarke County adding 31.

The district as a whole added 126 cases, and the 10-day rolling average of added cases increased to 124.3 from 120.7 on Monday.

Even with the addition of the four new deaths in the Northeast Health District on Tuesday, deaths are greatly lagging the addition of cases.

The District has added 2,196 cases in the last 21 days–a conservative estimate of active cases. But it has added only 20 deaths.

The Georgia Emergency Management Agency reported seven of the 70 Critical Care Beds in area hospitals were unoccupied on Tuesday. That figure had been five on Monday.

For more analysis of regional data and for state data, with charts for both, please go to Oconee County Observations.