COVID-19 Update
The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there are a surprising eleven new cases of COVID-19. No information is available to account for the spike. One more person has recovered, and there are no new hospitalizations and no new deaths. In the past day, test results have been received for 176 Columbia County residents.
As of 11:30 p.m. on May 24, 2020:
- Columbia County has had 32 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
- 371 positive cases of COVID-19 with 149 active cases. There are 67 additional residents on mandatory quarantine and 3 residents on precautionary quarantine.
- 190 of the 371 cases have recovered from COVID-19
- 16 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
- We have received 4,398 test results completed for Columbia County residents
Hope that contact tracing is working. Quarantine numbers seem low. One individual can have 67 contacts alone. Imagine a grocery store employee, nurses, Lowe's attendant. The virus is happily about looking for hosts. It doesn't care about holidays, the economy and fidgety kids.
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