Georgia tallies 17,669 cases, 3,420 hospitalizations, 19.36% of all cases; 475 new cases, 96 newly hospitalized —
Here’s the Covid-19 pandemic report from the Georgia Department of Public Health for midday, April 18.
Total test-confirmed cases statewide: 17,669, which is 475 more than the previous day’s total of 17,194, an increase of 2.7%. Only 2 of Georgia’s 159 counties are not reporting any coronavirus cases: Glascock and Taliaferro.
Statewide deaths: 673, an increase of 23 fatalities over the previous day’s total of 650, which is 3.5% higher than the report one day earlier.
State Covid-19 death rate: 3.81% of all confirmed cases reported, still under 4 deaths for every 100 confirmed cases.
Fayette County: Confirmed infections — 135 cases (2 more than the previous day’s 133 or 1.5%) with 5 deaths (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: 119 cases per 100,000 persons. #27 in DPH ranking of most coronavirus cases.
Coweta County: Confirmed infections — 156 (7 more than previous day’s 149 or 4.6% more) with 3 deaths (no breakout of how many in hospital). Coweta’s confirmed case rate: 104.2 cases per 100,000 persons. #24 in DPH ranking of most coronavirus cases.
Hospitalized: 3,420 in hospital beds statewide, which is 19.36% of the total confirmed cases to date, compared to 3,324 in hospitals one day earlier, an increase of 96 newly hospitalized patients (increase of 2.8% over the previous day) across the state of Georgia. No breakdown by county provided.
Total coronavirus tests: 74,208 by private and state labs, which represents 2,524 (3.5%) more tests than the 71,684 tests in the previous day. Note: State labs ran 4,853 tests, while commercial labs ran 69,355.
Total positive tests: 17,669 confirmations so far with all testing from both commercial and state labs, a positive confirmation rate of 23.6% 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 — 2,054 cases, 74 deaths; Clayton — 505 cases, 17 deaths; Henry — 353 cases, 7 deaths; Coweta — 156 cases, 3 deaths; Fayette — 135 cases, 5 deaths; Spalding — 126 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
Confirmed cases by age group: Age 0-17 — 1%; age 18-59 — 61%; age 60+ — 34%; age unknown — 4%
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
I too along with CitizenAl would like to thank Cal for this daily reporting for our state and local area. One question I have is within the area total positive testing and the confirmation rate (23.6%). If all the frontline health workers and first-responders, etc. are getting routinely tested say on a weekly basis (cautionary reasons) and they’re presumed to be non-symptomatic, wouldn’t that confirmation rate (1:4) be slightly amiss? Meaning, the rate of positive pickups is actually a bit higher if compared to only the symptomatic and/or sick patients that are being tested.
Thank you for your excellent reporting and information for our community. We need you!