By Jacob Clary – [email protected]
COVID-19 cases in Highland County have declined, according to the New York Times COVID Tracker, which said Monday that the county is seeing new cases according to the day, or about 37 cases according to 100,000 residents.
The last time The Times-Gazette reported on COVID-19 data on Aug. 30, the Tracker said the county saw 19 new cases per day, or about 44 cases per 100,000 residents.
The tracker provided some of the lacheck trends for the county. He said the COVID-19 network point in the county is “high” in cases and hospitalizations, according to the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) check update on Sept. 2. 8; the number of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 has decreased in the county, but deaths have remained nearly the same; and the check positivity rate for the county is “very high, suggesting that cases have particularly low coverage. “
The update also states that since the beginning of the pandemic, the county has recorded a total of 12,319 reported cases and at least one in 4 citizens has been infected.
The New York Times COVID-19 Tracker also provided an update on COVID-19 on September 8 for the United States. He said known cases of the virus have “declined significantly” in recent weeks, with the national average falling below 90,000 cases just before Business Day.
“The holidays have distorted existing numbers, as many states reported delays or incomplete knowledge as a result of the long weekend,” the update says. “Still, the number of cases is much higher today than it was a month ago. “does, when nearly 120,000 cases were reported every day. “
The update also indicates that hospitalizations have also noticed “sustained improvement. “Fewer than 35,000 other people were in U. S. hospitals. Every day due to the virus, a 13% drop in the last two weeks.
Regarding death statistics, knowledge is “particularly volatile” due to disruptions in holiday reports. He said, however, that deaths were “much lower” than a year ago, when the Delta variant exceeded 1,500 deaths a day.
In other news, Highland County’s COVID-19 case rate remained at 512. 0 instances consistent with 100,000 citizens over the past two weeks, according to the Ohio Department of Health’s coronavirus watch panel, which was last updated Thursday. the state average of 361. 8 instances consistent with 100,000 citizens the same period consistently and ranks the county 20th out of the state’s 88 counties in terms of the highest case rates.
As for vaccines, Highland County recently has 40. 66% of the county’s citizens who have started their vaccinations, according to ODH’s COVID-19 Vaccination Panel, which was last updated Thursday. .
In terms of completed vaccines, the state average is 59. 08%, while the Highland County average is 37. 68%.
The dashboard also indicates that 7,764 doses of “first booster” and 1,500 doses of “second booster” were administered in the county as of Aug. 12 to other people who were already fully vaccinated.
Contact Jacob Clary at 937-402-2570.
By Jacob Clary
[email protected]
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