Georgia reports cumulative total of 19,881 cases, 799 deaths; graphs show state slopes headed down —
Here’s the Covid-19 pandemic report from the Georgia Department of Public Health for midday, April 21.
Total test-confirmed cases statewide: 19,881, which is 934 more than the previous day’s total of 18,947, an increase of 4.9%. Only 2 of Georgia’s 159 counties are not reporting any coronavirus cases: Glascock and Taliaferro.
Statewide deaths: 799, an increase of 66 fatalities over the previous day’s total of 733, which is 9.0% higher than the report one day earlier.
State Covid-19 death rate: 4.02% of all confirmed cases reported, now at 4 deaths for every 100 test-confirmed cases.
Fayette County: Confirmed infections — 144 cases (4 more than the previous day’s 140 or 2.8%) with 8 deaths (last deaths reported were April 20) (no breakout of how many in hospital). Deaths (sex, age, whether there was underlying medical condition): Male, 76, yes; female, 77, yes; female, 85, unknown; male, 79, yes; female, 64, yes; male, 73, yes; male, 73, yes; male, 83, yes. The lone victim under age 73 was a 64-year-old woman with a pre-existing medical condition.. Fayette’s confirmed case rate: 126.9 cases per 100,000 persons. #28 in DPH ranking of most coronavirus cases.
Coweta County: Confirmed infections — 170 (2 more than previous day’s 168 or 1.1% more) with 4 deaths. Coweta’s confirmed case rate: 113.6 cases per 100,000 persons. #24 in DPH ranking of most coronavirus cases.
A note about the case rate: Some perspective is needed in interpreting this number. For example, the county with the state’s highest case rate per 100,000 population (as of April 19) is tiny Randolph County in southwest Georgia (county seat Cuthbert). Its case rate is 2,066.2 cases per 100,000 population. That sounds huge. Here’s the perspective: Randolph County has a total population of 6,867 persons in 2018 and 141 total cases of Covid-19. That’s 2% of the county’s population.
Hospitalized: 3,779 cumulative total of all hospitalizations statewide, which is 19.01% of the total confirmed cases to date, compared to 3,550 one day earlier listed as having been in hospitals, an increase of 229 newly hospitalized patients (increase of 6.4% over the previous day) across the state of Georgia. No breakdown by county provided.
Total coronavirus tests: 88,140 by private and state labs, which represents 3,812 (4.5%) more tests than the 84,328 tests in the previous day. Note: State labs ran 5,733 tests, while commercial labs ran 82,407.
Total positive tests: 19,881 confirmations so far with all testing from both commercial and state labs, a positive confirmation rate of 22.5% of the total tests administered. Roughly 1 out of every 4 tests administered comes back with a positive reading on the presence of coronavirus, meaning 3 out of 4 persons tested had no sign of the coronavirus.
Covid-19 in neighboring counties
Fulton — 2,208 cases, 82 deaths; Clayton — 546 cases, 20 deaths; Henry — 384 cases, 11 deaths; Coweta — 170 cases, 4 deaths; Fayette — 144 cases, 8 deaths; Spalding — 136 cases, 7 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
• April 14 — 183 new patients, 7% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 15 — 153 new patients, 5.5% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 16 — 118 new patients, 4% increase over previous day’s report
• April 17 — 284 new patients, 9.3% increase over previous day’s report
• April 18 — 96 new patients, 2.8% increase over previous 24-hour period
• April 19 — 44 new patients, 1.2% increase over previous 24-hour period.
• April 20 — 86 new patients, 2.4% increase over previous 24-hour period.
• April 21 — 229 new patients, 6.4% increase over previous 24-hour period.
Confirmed cases by age group: Age 0-17 — 1%; age 18-59 — 62%; age 60+ — 34%; 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
April 14 — 112 cases, (#27 in state), 5 deaths
April 15 — 120 cases (#26 in state), 5 deaths
April 16 — 123 cases (#26 in state), 5 deaths
April 17 — 133 cases (#27 in state), 5 deaths
April 18 — 135 cases (#27 in state) with 5 deaths
April 19 — 139 cases (#27 in state) with 5 deaths
April 20— 140 cases (#27 in state) with 5 deaths
April 21 — 144 cases (#28 in state) with 8 deaths
