The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been 10 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 1 fewer than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 11 county residents have recovered from the virus. There are 3 fewer county residents hospitalized with the virus today than yesterday, but, whereas yesterday none of those hospitalized was in the ICU, today there are 2. There has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since Thursday, March 3.
The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County today of 2.4 percent and a seven-day average of 2.6 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 2.2 percent and the seven-day average is 2.2 percent.
A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 6 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 3,637, and the number of active cases was 64. There were 168 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 13 were hospitalized, and 4 were in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 88.
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