Oconee County Adds No New COVID-19 Cases; Region Adds 24

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Northeast Health District, which includes Oconee and Clarke counties, increased by 24 in the Wednesday noon Daily Status Report of the Georgia Department of Public Health.

The Wednesday increase is the same number as was shown from Monday to the noon Daily Status Report on Tuesday.

The increase on Wednesday was down from 25 on Wednesday a week ago, and the seven-day rolling average of added cases for the Northeast Health District dropped from 22.1 to 22.0 as a result, giving some evidence that the number of cases is flattening at least.

Oconee County added no new cases in the 24-hour period ending at noon on Wednesday, while Clarke added two new cases and Jackson County added seven.

The 10-county Northeast Health District added no deaths with the noon Wednesday Daily Status report.

The state of Georgia added 859 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in the 24-hour period ending at noon on Wednesday, and the rolling seven-day average of added cases increased from 808.3 to 821.9 because the 859 cases are much greater than the 764 added Wednesday of last week.

The Department of Public Health noon Daily Status Report still contains the misleading charts suggesting that the rolling averages are declining.

The Daily Status Report on Wednesday lists 37 new deaths attributed to the COVID-19 disease, down from 66 on Tuesday and down from 51 on Wednesday a week ago.

The seven-day rolling average, which compensates for the bias in the data resulting from different reporting by day of the week, dropped from 42.6 on Tuesday to 40.6 on Wednesday.

The statewide data show that while the ratio of confirmed COVID-19 cases to tests reporting is declining as the number of tests has increased, the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases is increasing.

For details of the local and state data, with charts summarizing the data, please go to Oconee County Observations.