COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health was released its numbers for today. We've reached some kind of milestone: a total of 500 cases since this all began. That's three more than there were yesterday. There have also been four more recoveries, reducing the number of active cases by one, to 14. The number of county residents in mandatory quarantine has increased by eighteen, and the number in precautionary quarantine has increased by ten. The number of people hospitalized with the virus remains the same, and there have been no new deaths.

As of 3:00 p.m. on August 3, 2020:

• Columbia County has had 37 residents that have passed away from COVID-19.
• Columbia County has 500 confirmed positive cases.
• There are 14 active cases of COVID-19 in Columbia County. We are monitoring 96 county residents on mandatory quarantine, and there are 23 on precautionary quarantine.
• 449 of the 500 cases are recovering from COVID-19  
• 3 of the positive cases are hospitalized, none of those hospitalized are in the ICU
• We have received 18,621 PCR reports. Please note this number may represent duplicate reports, out of county reports, and multiple nursing home testings.

This may or may not be significant, but as of yesterday, the CCDOH was changed the verb tense in its fourth bullet item from "have recovered" to "are recovering." What that means is not known, but it should be noted that those who "are recovering" are no longer counted among the "active cases"--the third bullet item.