COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. The good news is that nothing has changed since yesterday except that eleven more people have recovered from the coronavirus. There have been no more deaths, no more new positive cases, no more hospitalizations. Today's report also acknowledges that the CCDOH not been distinguishing between diagnostic testing and antibody testing when reporting the number of test results received. Presumably starting today, they are going to start doing that. Yesterday, the total number of test results reported was 4,626.

As of 3 p.m. on May 26, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 32 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• 381 positive cases of COVID-19 with 145 active cases. There are 73 additional residents on mandatory quarantine and 3 residents on precautionary quarantine.
• 204 of the 381 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 16 of the positive cases are hospitalized, 1 of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have categorized our results by antibody and PCR tests. We've received a total of 3,775 PCR test results and are in the process of tallying antibody results that have been completed for Columbia County residents.