COVID-19 Update

Late this afternoon, the Columbia County Department of Health released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been ten new cases of COVID-19 and four recoveries, increasing the number of active cases by six to 88. The number of county residents hospitalized and in the ICU remains the same today as yesterday. So far in the month of December, there have been no deaths from COVID-19 in Columbia County. 

With ten positives out of 481 test results received, the positive percentage rate for today is 2.1 percent. The seven day rolling average, according to Gossips' calculations, is 3.2 percent--that is, 93 positives out of 2,938 test results.