COVID-19: Week over week Georgia hospitalizations rise; deaths drop

The following is a snapshot of the statistics reported by the Georgia Department of Public Health at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Gwinnett County is reporting one more death and Walton County is reporting no more deaths. Georgia is reporting 23 more deaths and 3,420 more cases in the last 24 hours. 

Walton County’s 28 deaths reported to date include 14 males and 14 females. All but one of the victims was over 60 and six of them were over 90. One woman and three men were African American and the other 24 were caucasian.

Walton County

Cases – 497 – That’s seven more cases reported in the past 24 hours
Cases per 100,000 –518.7
Total deaths – 28 – that’s no more deaths reported in the past 24 hours
Hospitalized – 65 – that’s no more hospitalizations reported in the past 24 hours

Walton County Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities (cumulative) No more deaths reported in Walton County nursing homes or assisted living facilities in the last 24 hours.

Park Place, Monroe – 90 confirmed resident cases, 34 confirmed staff cases, 23 deaths reported – that is one more staff member to test positive in the past 24 hours
The Retreat at Loganville Pearl Memory Care Building – 13 confirmed resident cases, four deaths
The Retreat at Loganville: one confirmed resident case, one reported recovered no staff cases, no deaths

Hollander Senior Living, Monroe, one confirmed staff case, no deaths

Social Circle Nursing and Rehab in Social Circle is reporting that one resident tested positive for COVID-19, no deaths and one person recovered. It is reporting that 26 of the 56 residents have been tested.

Gwinnett County

Cases – 10,237 – that’s 265 new cases reported in the past 24 hours
Cases per 100,000 – 1054
Total deaths – 175 – that’s one more death reported in the past 24 hours
Hospitalized – 1,213 – That is 25 more hospitalizations reported in the last 24 hours

Georgia

Confirmed cases – 103,890 – that is 3,420 more cases reported in the past 24 hours
ICU admissions – 2,502 – that’s 31 more reported in the past 24 hours Hospitalizations – 12,500 – That’s 274 more hospitalizations reported in the past 24 hours
Total deaths – 2,922 – That is 23 more death reported in the past 24 hours.

A total of 1,000,409 viral tests have been performed and 171,858 antibody tests. That is 20,957 viral test results reported in the last 24 hours and 838 Antibody tests. Of the viral tests performed, 94,773 (9.5 %) have come back positive and 9,032 (5.3 %) antibody tests have come back positive.

In a week over week comparison, hospitalizations are up, but deaths continue to go down, as can be seen in the following graphs. Week 1 is the week ending March 25 and week 16 is the week ending 7/8. Georgia began opening up between weeks 5 and 6.

3/18 – 3/25

46   deaths

241  hospitalizations

3/25 – 4/1

107    deaths

575    hospitalizations

4/1 – 4/8

216.    deaths

1076.   hospitalizations

4/8 – 4/15

206.    deaths

917      hospitalizations

4/15 – 4/22  –  

270.      deaths

1012      hospitalizations

4/22 – 4/29  Georgia begins opening up from 4/24

250      deaths

1058.    hospitalizations

4/29  – 5/6

231       deaths

719       hospitalizations

5/6 – 5/13

178.      deaths

464.      hospitalizations

5/13 – 5/20.

192       deaths              

912       hospitalizations

5/20 – 5/27

236.      deaths

574       hospitalization

5/27 – 6/3

190.      deaths

674       hospitalization

6/3 – 6/10

206.       deaths

555         hospitalizations

6/10 – 6/17

200.        deaths 

480        hospitalizations 

6/17 – 6/24

169.          deaths

859          hospitalizations

6/24 – 7/1 

107          deaths

962.         hospitalizations

7/1 – 7/8

1,225 Hospitalizations up

95 Deaths