Emergency Room Visits For Coronavirus-Like Illnesses Up In Delco

DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — Delaware County is seeing more people showing up to hospitals with coronavirus-like illnesses, according to new data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

The new data shows more Delaware County residents are visiting emergency rooms with coronavirus-like illnesses.

Over the past seven days, 1.5 percent of people presenting at emergency departments have coronavirus like illnesses. That's up from 0.9 percent from the previous seven days.

While that metric has increased, others are down.

The average daily number of patients on ventilators in Delaware County has decreased from 4 in the previous week to 3 this week.

Newly-reported confirmed cases are down to 388, with last week's number being 428.

The county's positivity rate dropped from 4.6 percent to 4.3 percent.

Coronavirus hospitalizations in Delco dipped from 27.3 over the previous seven days down to 22.1 in the most recent seven days.

When it comes to "incidence rate per 100,000," there were 69.7 cases for the past seven days. It was at 75.8 the previous seven.

There has been 10,152 cases and 769 total deaths county-wide since the pandemic began. The county's recovery rate is 78.17 percent and 81,450 negative test results have been reports in the county.