COVID-19 Update: CCDOH

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, according to the CCDOH, there have been two new cases of COVID-19 and one recovery, increasing the number of active cases in the county by one, to 13. There are 21 more people in mandatory quarantine and one more in precautionary quarantine. One fewer person is hospitalized with the virus, and there have been no new deaths.

As of 3:30 p.m. on July 29, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 484 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 13 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 71 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 12 on precautionary quarantine.
• 434 of the 484 cases have recovered from COVID-19
• 3 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 17,690 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.

According to the CCDOH, the results from 129 tests have been received in the past 24 hours, and two of those were positive. That's 1.5 percent positive not 5 percent. Why there is such a discrepancy between the numbers from CCDOH and what's being reported on the New York State dashboard is not known, but it would be nice if we could understand it. 
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