Charting Georgia’s 13,305 cases, 462 deaths, 2,586 hospitalizations —
Here’s the Covid-19 pandemic report from the Georgia Department of Public Health for midday, April 13:
Total test-confirmed cases statewide: 13,305, which is 853 more than the previous day’s total of 12,452, an increase of 6.8%.
Statewide deaths: 462, an increase of 29 fatalities over the previous day’s total of 433, which is 6.6% higher than the report one day earlier.
State Covid-19 death rate: 3.47% of all confirmed cases reported, still under 4 deaths for every 100 confirmed cases
Fayette County: Confirmed infections — 105 (6 more than the previous day) with 5 deaths (1 additional fatality, no breakout of how many in hospital) Deaths: 3 males, ages 79, 83, and 73, all with underlying conditions; 2 females, age 77 with underlying condition, and age 85 with unknown underlying conditions. Fayette’s confirmed case rate: 92.5 cases per 100,000 persons.
Coweta County: Confirmed infections — 119 (16 more than previous day) with 2 deaths (No change and no breakout of how many in hospital). Coweta’s confirmed case rate: 79.5 cases per 100,000 persons.
Hospitalized: 2,586 in hospital beds statewide, which is 19.44% of the total confirmed cases, compared to 2,505 in hospitals 24 hours earlier, an increase of 81 newly hospitalized patients (increase of 3.2% over the previous 24-hour period) across the state of Georgia.
Total coronavirus tests: 57,006 by private and state labs, which represents 2,553 (4.6%) more tests than the 54,453 tests in the previous 24-hour period. Note: State labs ran 3,750 tests, while commercial labs ran 53,256.
Total positive tests: 13,305 confirmations so far with all testing from both commercial and state labs, a positive confirmation rate of 23.3% 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 — 1,597 cases, 52 deaths; Clayton — 391 cases, 121 deaths; Henry — 280 cases, 4 deaths; Coweta — 119 cases, 2 deaths; Fayette — 105 cases, 5 deaths; Spalding — 75 cases, 4 deaths.
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
• April 13 — 81 new patients, 3.29% 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
April 13 —105 cases (#26 in state), 5 deaths
