Health & Fitness
Oconee County Adds Two COVID-19 Deaths In Public Health Report
Area Hospitals report and increase in ICU bed use.
The Northeast Health District added 105 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday based on molecular tests and 136 cases based on antigen tests as well as two deaths–both in Oconee County–attributed to the disease.
The Oconee County deaths were of a 63-year-old male without a known chronic condition and of an 89-year-old male without a known chronic condition.
The two deaths in Oconee County pushed the county’s number of deaths in the Daily Status Report to 34. The county is the third-highest in the 10-county Northeast Health District in deaths per population.
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The seven-day rolling average of added deaths in the Northeast Health District, based on the Daily Status Report tally, increased to 2.0 on Tuesday from 1.9 on Monday.
The Department of Public Health only began reporting Antigen Positive Cases in addition its traditional Confirmed Cases on Tuesday of last week.
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Tuesday was the first day, both across the state and in the Northeast Health District, when the number of antigen cases exceeded the number of molecular cases.
The Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) and the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA) reported on Tuesday that the number of COVID-19 patients at area hospitals (75) decreased by one from the day before, that the number of ICU beds in use (67) increased by eight from the day before, and that the number of adult ventilators in use (29) decreased by 2 from the day before.
Area hospitals have a capacity of 70 ICU beds, though that capacity can be increased.
The Department of Community Health listed one new COVID-19 Positive resident at the 38 long-term care facilities covered by its Long-Term Care Facility Report and four new COVID-19 Positive Staff.
The two Oconee County deaths bring to three the number added in the county in the last week.
For more on Oconee County’s death from COVID-19, more detail on the tests now being reported, for state data, and for charts summarizing state and local data, please go to Oconee County Observations.
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