COVID-19 Update
The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there are two more positive cases of COVID-19, and four more people have recovered. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 remains the same, but one more person is now in the ICU. The number of deaths remains the same.
As of 3 p.m. on April 27, 2020:
- Columbia County has had 13 community members that have passed away from COVID-1
- 154 positive cases of COVID-19
- 81 of the 154 cases have recovered from COVID-19
- 15 of the positive cases are hospitalized, 4 of those hospitalized are in the ICU
- We have received 1,175 test results completed for Columbia County residents
- 146 residents are under mandatory quarantine and 22 under precautionary quarantine
Now that NYC has expanded testing to reveal the actual numbers of infected people, it was estimated the death rate is only .5%. So extrapolating from that based on 13 dead in the county, you could estimate the number of actual positive cases to be around 2600, which is a lot of people walking around with the virus. So wear your mask, wash your hands and stay away from people as much as possible.
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