COVID-19 Update
The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been three new cases of COVID-19 and five recoveries, which would seem to reduce the number of active cases by two to 88, but the CCDOH reports there are now 87 active cases. The number of people hospitalized with the virus remains the same, but today one fewer is in the ICU.
Because the number of tests reported yesterday seemed to be in error, Gossips will calculate the average over the past two days. With twelve positives out of 416 test results received, the positive percentage rate for the past two days is 2.6 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, based on the numbers provided by the CCDOH, is 3 percent--that is, 80 positives out of 2,707 test results. The New York State dashboard, however, is reporting that the percentage positive for yesterday is 2.9 percent and the seven day average is 2.6 percent.
It remains mind-boggling that our Columbia County Health Department is not tracking infection rates, over time; or New Cases over time; or deaths over time. I thank you Carol for doing this work, but it is a shame that our Health Department can't keep track of these stats over time; seems this would be the least they could do to track public health in this era of contagion.
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