July 8 pandemic report: Fayette sets 5 daily increase records in past 9 days

Here’s the Covid-19 pandemic report from the Georgia Department of Public Health as of 2:54 p.m., July 8.

SUMMARY: GA total cases — 103,890 (+3,420. Another near record day. Largest daily increases: July 2 — 3,472; July 8 — 3,420; July 7 — 3,406; July 3 — 3,021.)

GA deaths — 2,922 (+23); death rate of confirmed cases — 2.8%

ICU admissions  —2,502 (+31); Hospitalizations (total) —12,500 (+274).

GEMA hospitalizations (July 7) — 2,096 test-confirmed Covid-19 patients currently occupying hospital beds across Georgia, 134 more than the previous day.

Total tests — 1,172,267 (+21,795) (Includes 171,858 antibody tests).

Fayette cases — 472 (14 new cases more than the previous day’s total of 458); Fayette deaths — 19 (unchanged from previous report)

Fayette hospitalizations — 50 (1 more than the previous report)

Fayette death rate per 100K — 16.2

Fayette new cases since May 1 — 295; average per day increase — 4.27.

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Here are the July 7 situation reports from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. The reports show that, as of July 7 across the state, 2,096 persons are hospitalized for Covid-19, 134 more than the previous day; that 504 critical care beds (18%) — 138 fewer beds available than the previous day — remain available for incoming patients out of a total capacity of 2,858 critical care beds; and that 35% of the state’s available adult ventilators are in use.

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The graphs below represent a Fayette County report of cases over time in the first graph, and Fayette deaths over time just below that.

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Graphs below show statewide cases over time and Covid-19 deaths over time. According to DPH, the Covid-19 cases over time “is meant to aid understanding whether the outbreak is growing, leveling off, or declining and can help to guide the Covid-19 response.”

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Below is a current DPH chart of reported Covid-19-related deaths that have occurred in Fayette County since the start of the pandemic. The chart is updated to reflect the latest data — 19 deaths attributed to the coronavirus. It adds an African-American male, age 77, and a white female, age 89, both without any underlying medical conditions.

Here’s the breakdown: 8 black males, ranging from the youngest victim at 63 to the oldest male victim at 89; 5 white males, ranging from 73 to 86; 4 white females from 77 to 89; and 2 black females, ages 64 and 69.

The chart lists from left to right the age of the victim, the race, the sex, the county, and yes or no or unknown as to whether the victim had an underlying medical condition:

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Total test-confirmed cases statewide: 103,890 cases, which is 3,420 more cases than the previous day’s total of 100,470, an increase of 3.2% This total is surpassed only by the July 2 total of 3,472 new cases in one day. All of Georgia’s 159 counties are now reporting coronavirus cases.

Statewide deaths: 2,922 -2,899, an increase of 23 deaths over the previous day’s total of 2,899.

State Covid-19 death rate: 2.8% of all confirmed cases reported, equivalent to 3 deaths for every 100 test-confirmed cases.

Fayette County: Confirmed infections  — 472 (14 more new cases than the previous day’s 458). Total Covid-19 deaths: 19, unchanged from the previous report. Fayette’s confirmed case rate: 401.6 cases per 100,000 persons (or four-tenths of 1%). Fayette death rate per 100,000 population: 16.2. Hospitalizations: 50. Fayette has recorded 295 new Covid-19 cases since May 1. That’s an average of 4.27 new cases per day over the period since May 1. Fayette has set 5 record daily increases in 9 days: June 30 — +15; July 2 — +17; July 3 — +21; July 4 — +24; and July 7 — +36.

Coweta County: Confirmed infections  — 806 (12 more cases than the previous day’s 794). Coweta is reporting 16 deaths, unchanged from the previous report. Coweta’s confirmed case rate: 530.3 cases per 100,000 persons. Coweta death rate per 100,000 population: 10.5. Hospitalizations: 63.

Hospitalized: 12,500 cumulative Covid-19 hospitalizations statewide from the beginning of the pandemic to today, which is 12.0 of the total cumulative confirmed cases to date, compared to 12,226 cumulative total one day earlier, an increase of 274 newly hospitalized patients across the state of Georgia. Highest admission days of the pandemic: 442 new admissions on April 7, 345 new admissions on April 28, and 307 new admissions on July 7.

Intensive care unit admissions: 2,502 admissions, which is 31 more new ICU patients than the previous day’s cumulative report of 2,471 across reporting hospitals in Georgia.

Total coronavirus tests: 1,172,26 by private and state labs, which represents 21,795 more tests than the 1,150,472 tests in the previous report.

Total positive tests:  103,890 confirmed cases so far with all testing from both commercial and state labs, a positive confirmation rate of 8.8% of the total tests administered. The positive confirmation rate is now about 1 out of 11, meaning that 10 out of every 11 tests show no presence of coronavirus.

Covid-19 in neighboring counties

Fulton —  9,358 new cases, 319 deaths; Clayton — 2,517 cases, 81 deaths; Henry — 1,568 cases, 33 deaths; Coweta — 806 cases, 16 deaths; Spalding — 515 cases, 33 deaths;  Fayette — 472 cases, 19 deaths.

Top 5 counties with most deaths: Fulton, 319; Cobb, 248; Gwinnett, 175; Dougherty, 155; DeKalb, 175.

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The chart below demonstrates statistics about who caught the coronavirus by age group, who was hospitalized by age group, and who died by age group.

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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.

• April 22 — 180 new patients, 4.7% increase over previous 24-hour period

• April 23 — 110 new patients, 2.7% increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 24 — 152 new patients, 3.7% increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 25 — 105 new patients, 2.4% increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 26 — 33 new patients, 0.01% (one-tenth of 1 percent) increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 27 — 74 new patients, 1.6% increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 28 — 345 new patients, 7.7% increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 29 — 170 new patients, 3.5% increase over previous 24-hour period.

• April 30 — 162 new patients, 3.2% increase over the previous 24-hour period.

• May 1 — 108 new patients, 2.1% increase over the previous 24-hour period.

• May 2 — 122 new patients, 2.3% increase over the previous 24-hour period.

• May 3 — 53 new patients, 0.9% increase over the previous 24-hour period.

• May 4 —  36 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 0.6% over the previous day.

• May 5 —  145 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 2.6% over the previous day.

• May 6 —  135 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 2.4% over the previous day.

• May 7 —  86 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.5% over the previous day.

• May 8 —  91 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.5% over the previous day.

• May 9 —  95 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.6% over the previous day.

• May 10 —  13 newly hospitalized patients, increase of under 1% over the previous day.

• May 11 —  21 newly hospitalized patients, increase of less than 1% over the previous day.

• May 12 —  115 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.9% over the previous day.

• May 13 —  98 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.5% over the previous day.

• May 14 — 117 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.8% over the previous day.

• May 15 — 93 newly hospitalized patients, increase of 1.4% over the previous day.

• May 16 — 297 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 20, statewide.

• May 17 — 55 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 3, statewide.

• May 18 — 126 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 8, statewide.

• May 19 — 86 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 19, statewide.

• May 20 — 105 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 33, statewide.

• May 21 — 128 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 25, statewide.

• May 22 — 78 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 16, statewide.

• May 23 — 98 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 20, statewide.

• May 24 — 28 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 5, statewide.

• May 25 — 36 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 3, statewide.

• May 26 — 72 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 17, statewide.

• May 27 — 119 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 32, statewide.

• May 28 — 101 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 26, statewide.

• May 29 — 85 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 19, statewide.

• May 30 — 69 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 10, statewide.

• May 31 — 25 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 4, statewide.

• June 1 — 181 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 6, statewide.

• June 2 — 207 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 21, statewide.

• June 3 — 85 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 20, statewide.

• June 4 — 138 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 31, statewide.

• June 5 — 89 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 25, statewide.

• June 6 — 16 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 4, statewide.

• June 7 — 23 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 8, statewide.

• June 8 — 61 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 16, statewide.

• June 9 — 126 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 35, statewide.

• June 10 — 102 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 31, statewide.

• June 11 — 99 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 15, statewide.

• June 12 — 108 newly hospitalized patients; new ICU admissions are 15, statewide.

• June 13 — 43 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 8.

• June 14 — 24 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 5.

• June 15 — 74 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 9.

• June 16 — 132 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 22.

• June 17 — 89 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 19.

• June 18 — 120 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 25.

• June 19 — 109 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 13.

• June 20 — 65 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 18.

• June 21 — 27 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 4.

• June 22 — 89 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 11.

• June 23 — 170 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 19.

• June 24 — 190 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 32.

• June 25 — 144 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 16.

• June 26 — 148 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 22.

• June 27 — 84 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 17.

• June 28 — 22 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 7.

• June 29 — 113 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 21.

• June 30 — 227 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 34.

• July 1 — 224 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 34.

• July 2 — 225 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 32.

• July 3 — 153 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 24.

• July 4 — 90 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 12.

• July 5 — 32 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 4.

• July 6 — 144 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 12.

• July 7 — 307 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 30.

• July 8 — 274 newly hospitalized patients; new statewide ICU admissions are 31.

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Below is the daily progression of cumulative reported Covid-19 cases and fatalities in Fayette County:

March 9 — 1 case, no deaths

March 13 — 5 cumulative cases, no deaths

March 17 — 5 cumulative cases, no deaths

March 19 — 9 cumulative cases, no deaths

March 20 — cumulative 9 cases, 1 death (male, 83, other medical conditions)

March 22 — 9 cumulative cases, 1 death

March 23 — 10 cumulative cases, 1 death

March 24 — 12 cumulative cases, 1 death.

March 25 — 12 cumulative cases, 1 death

March 26 — 14 cumulative cases, 2 deaths (no new details provided)

March 27 — 19 cumulative cases, 2 deaths

March 28 — 25 cumulative cases, 2 deaths

March 29 — 26 cumulative cases, 3 deaths (male, 83; male, 79; female, 77; all with underlying medical conditions)

March 30 — 32 cumulative cases, 3 deaths

March 31 — 44 cumulative cases, 4 deaths (female, 51, NO underlying medical condition)

April 1 — 48 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 2 — 52 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 3 — 58 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 4 — 62 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 5 — 67 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 6 — 74 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 7 — 79 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 8 — 85 cumulative cases, 4 deaths

April 9 — 89 cumulative 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 cumulative cases, 4 deaths (subtraction yesterday and addition today unexplained by DPH)

April 11 — 94 cumulative cases (#26 in state), 4 deaths

April 12 — 99 cumulative cases (#26 in state), 4 deaths

April 13 —105 cumulative cases (#26 in state), 5 deaths

April 14 — 112 cumulative cases, (#27 in state), 5 deaths

April 15 — 120 cumulative cases (#26 in state), 5 deaths

April 16 — 123 cumulative cases (#26 in state), 5 deaths

April 17 — 133 cumulative cases (#27 in state), 5 deaths

April 18 — 135 cumulative cases (#27 in state) with 5 deaths

April 19 — 139 cumulative cases (#27 in state) with 5 deaths

April 20— 140 cumulative cases (#27 in state) with 5 deaths

April 21 — 144 cumulative cases (#28 in state) with 8 deaths

April 22 — 145 cumulative cases (#28 in state) with 8 deaths

April 23 — 152 cumulative cases (#29 in state) with 8 deaths.

April 24 — 156 cumulative cases (#29 in state) with 8 deaths.

April 25 — 158 cumulative cases (#29 in state) with 8 deaths

April 26 — 161 cumulative cases (#31 in state) with 8 deaths

April 27 — 165 cumulative cases (#30 in state) with 8 deaths.

April 28 — 170 cumulative cases with 9 deaths; 29 hospitalizations.

April 29 — 171 cumulative cases with 9 deaths; 32 hospitalizations.

April 30 — 180 cumulative cases with 10 deaths; 33 hospitalizations.

May 1 — 177 (DPH revised number) cumulative cases with 10 deaths, 33 hospitalizations

May 2 — 180 cumulative cases with 10 deaths, 35 hospitalizations

May 3 — 182 cumulative cases with 10 deaths, 35 hospitalizations

May 4 — 188 cumulative cases with 10 deaths, 35 hospitalizations

May 5 — 185 cumulative cases (unexplained decline) with 10 deaths, 35 hospitalizations

May 6 — 194 cumulative cases with 10 deaths, 36 hospitalizations

May 7 — 188 cumulative cases (unexplained decline) with 11 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 8 — 190 cumulative cases with 12 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 9 — 194 cumulative cases with 12 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 10 — 199 cumulative cases with 12 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 11 — 200 cumulative cases with 12 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 12 — 201 cumulative cases with 12 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 13 — 202 cumulative cases with 12 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 14 — 201 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations (unexplained subtraction of 1 case, 1 death and 1 hospitalization from county totals).

May 15 — 205 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 16 — 206 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 17 — 207 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 18 — 206 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 19 — 211 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 20 — 214 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 34 hospitalizations.

May 21 — 215 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 34 hospitalizations.

May 22 — 213 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 34 hospitalizations.

May 23 — 217 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 24 — 220 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 25 — 221 cumulative cases with 11 deaths, 35 hospitalizations.

May 26 — 230 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 27 — 235 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 36 hospitalizations.

May 28 — 230 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 37 hospitalizations.

May 29 — 233 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 37 hospitalizations.

May 30 — 235 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 37 hospitalizations.

May 31 — 235 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 37 hospitalizations.

June 1 — 235 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 37 hospitalizations.

June 2 — 237 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 38 hospitalizations.

June 3 — 239 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 39 hospitalizations.

June 4 — 241 cumulative cases with 13 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 5 — 244 cumulative cases with 15 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 6 — 245 cumulative cases with 15 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 7 — 245 cumulative cases with 15 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 8 — 247 cumulative cases with 15 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 9 — 254 cumulative cases with 15 deaths, 41 hospitalizations.

June 10 — 254 cumulative cases with 14 deaths, 41 hospitalizations.

June 11 — 258 cumulative cases with 14 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 12 — 259 cumulative cases with 14 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 13 — 260 cumulative cases with 14 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 14 — 261 cumulative cases with 14 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 15 — 261 cumulative cases with 15 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 16 — 270 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 17 — 271 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 18 — 271 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 40 hospitalizations.

June 19 — 278 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 41 hospitalizations.

June 20 — 279 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 41 hospitalizations.

June 21 — 280 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 42 hospitalizations.

June 22 — 292 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 43 hospitalizations.

June 23 — 299 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 44 hospitalizations.

June 24 — 305 cumulative cases with 16 deaths, 45 hospitalizations.

June 25 — 314 cumulative cases with 17 deaths, 45 hospitalizations.

June 26 — 322 cumulative cases with 17 deaths, 46 hospitalizations.

June 27 — 324 cumulative cases with 17 deaths, 46 hospitalizations.

June 28 — 326 cumulative cases with 17 deaths, 46 hospitalizations.

June 29 — 326 cumulative cases with 17 deaths, 46 hospitalizations.

June 30 — 341 cumulative cases (+15, single largest day increase of the pandemic so far) with 17 deaths, 48 hospitalizations; 106 new cases since June 1.

July 1 — 346 cumulative cases with 19 deaths, 48 hospitalizations.

July 2 — 363 cumulative cases (+17, single largest daily increase so far) with 19 deaths, 48 hospitalizations.

July 3 — 384 cumulative cases (+21, single largest daily increase so far) with 19 deaths, 48 hospitalizations.

July 4 — 408 cumulative cases (+24, new record daily increase) with 19 deaths, 48 hospitalizations.

July 5 — 414 cumulative cases with 19 deaths, 48 hospitalizations.

July 6 — 422 cumulative cases with 19 deaths, 49 hospitalizations.

July 7 — 458 cumulative cases (+36 single largest daily increase so far for Fayette) with 19 deaths, 50 hospitalizations.

July 8 — 472 cumulative cases with 19 deaths, 50 hospitalizations.