COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. We are back in the double digits. Since yesterday, there have been 12 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 4 more than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 8 county residents have recovered from the virus. There are 2 fewer county residents hospitalized with COVID-19 today than yesterday, but, as yesterday, no one is in the ICU. There has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since March 3. 

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate for Columbia County today of 2.0 percent and a seven-day average of 2.4 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 3.9 percent and the seven-day average is 2.8 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 31 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 3,757, and the number of active cases was 90. There were 236 county residents in mandatory quarantine, 9 were hospitalized, and 1 was in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 89.