5 new state fatalities bring total to 433; 2,505 hospitalizations and 12,452 total cases —
Here’s the Covid-19 pandemic report from the Georgia Department of Public Health for midday, April 12:
Total test-confirmed cases statewide: 12,452, which is 293 more than the previous day’s total of 12,159, an increase of 2.4%.
Statewide deaths: 433, an increase of 5 fatalities over the previous day’s total of 428, which is 1.1% higher than the report one day earlier.
State Covid-19 death rate: 3.48% of all confirmed cases reported, still under 4 deaths for every 100 confirmed cases
Fayette County: Confirmed infections — 99 (5 more than the previous day) with 4 deaths (No change; no breakout of how many in hospital)
Coweta County: Confirmed infections — 103 (2 more than previous day) with 2 deaths (No change and no breakout of how many in hospital)
Hospitalized: 2,505 in hospital beds statewide, which is 20.12% of the total confirmed cases, compared to 2,479 in hospitals 24 hours earlier, an increase of 26 newly hospitalized patients (increase of 1% over the previous 24-hour period) across the state of Georgia.
Total coronavirus tests: 54,453 by private and state labs, which represents 2,738 (5.2%) more tests than the 51,715 tests in the previous 24-hour period. Note: State labs ran 3,520 tests, while commercial labs ran 50,933.
Total positive tests: 12,452 confirmations so far with all testing from both commercial and state labs, a positive confirmation rate of 22.8% of the total tests administered. Roughly 1 out of every 4 tests administered comes back with a positive reading on the presence of coronavirus.
Covid-19 in neighboring counties
Fulton — 1,467 cases, 50 deaths; Clayton — 362 cases, 11 deaths; Henry — 260 cases, 3 deaths; Coweta — 103 cases, 2 deaths; Fayette — 99 cases, 4 deaths; Spalding — 71 cases, 4 deaths.
New metric: Race of infected person (changed to 24 categories)
• Black — 2,712 (21.7%)
• White — 1,999 (16%)
• Other — 316 (2.5%)
• Unknown — 7,425 (59.6%) — Many previous test reports did not collect data about race or did not report race of person tested
Here’s what the raw numbers of new hospital patients across the state of Georgia and the corresponding rates of hospitalization increase day over day look like:
• March 26 — 79 new patients, 20% increase over previous 24-hour period
• March 27 — 93 new patients, 19.9% increase over previous 24-hour period
• March 28 — 51 new patients, 9% increase over previous 24-hour period
• March 29 — 49 new patients, 7.9% increase over previous 24-hour period
• March 30 — 41 new patients, 6.1% increase over previous 24-hour period
• March 31 — 111 new patients, 15.7% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 1 — 134 new patients, 16.3% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 2 — 104 new patients, 10.9% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 3 — 102 new patients, 9.6% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 4 — 81 new patients, 6.9% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 5 — 44 new patients, 3.5% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 6 — 48 new patients, 3.8% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 7 — 442 new patients, 33.1% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 8 — 206 new patients, 11.6% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 9 — 179 new patients, 9% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 10 — 192 new patients, 8.8% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 11 — 128 new patients, 5.4% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 12 — 26 new patients, 1% increase over previous 24-hour period
Confirmed cases by age group: Age 0-17 — 1%; age 18-59 — 61%; age 60+ — 35%; age unknown — 3%
Confirmed cases by sex: Female — 54%; male — 44%; unknown — 2%
Below is the daily progression of reported Covid-19 cases and fatalities in Fayette County:
March 9 — 1 case, no deaths
March 13 — 5 cases, no deaths
March 17 — 5 cases, no deaths
March 19 — 9 cases, no deaths
March 20 — 9 cases, 1 death (male, 83, other medical conditions)
March 22 — 9 cases, 1 death
March 23 — 10 cases, 1 death
March 24 — 12 cases, 1 death.
March 25 — 12 cases, 1 death
March 26 — 14 cases, 2 deaths (no new details provided)
March 27 — 19 cases, 2 deaths
March 28 — 25 cases, 2 deaths
March 29 — 26 cases, 3 deaths (male, 83; male, 79; female, 77; all with underlying medical conditions)
March 30 — 32 cases, 3 deaths
March 31 — 44 cases, 4 deaths (female, 51, NO underlying medical condition)
April 1 — 48 cases, 4 deaths
April 2 — 52 cases, 4 deaths
April 3 — 58 cases, 4 deaths
April 4 — 62 cases, 4 deaths
April 5 — 67 cases, 4 deaths
April 6 — 74 cases, 4 deaths
April 7 — 79 cases, 4 deaths
April 8 — 85 cases, 4 deaths
April 9 — 89 cases, 3 deaths (one fewer than reported earlier, no explanation given by DPH, though likely a reclassification of cause of death of one person)
April 10 — 92 cases, 4 deaths (subtraction yesterday and addition today unexplained by DPH)
April 11 — 94 cases (#26 in state), 4 deaths
April 12 — 99 cases (#26 in state), 4 deaths
The hospitalized patient data (new patients) has more than doubled coming out of the last weekend in March compared to seven days later in April, which was just last week. That is focusing on the Tues-Wed numbers. Naturally new hospitalized patients would be higher say at the beginning of the week compared to the weekend’s numbers since patients would seek medical attention after the weekend, say on a Monday. With that said Cal, it will be interesting to see the data for April 14 + 15 when published. Thanks for the updates.