COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been two new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is two more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred no one in the county has recovered from the virus in the past 24 hours. There is one fewer county resident in mandatory quarantine today than yesterday. The number of county residents hospitalized with the virus remains the same. There has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since Thursday, June 24.

Strangely, although the CCDOH reported one new case of COVID-19 yesterday and two today, the New York Forward dashboard is reporting, as it did yesterday, a daily positivity rate for Columbia County of 0.0 percent and a seven-day average of 0.6 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 0.6 percent and the seven-day average is 0.3 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 3 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 456, and the number of active cases was 24. There were 10 county residents hospitalized with the virus, and none was in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 37.