Tuesday, March 8, 2022

COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health has released its numbers for today. Since yesterday, there have been 4 new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases being reported today is 7 fewer than yesterday, from which it can be inferred that, since yesterday, 11 county residents have recovered from the virus. There are 2 fewer county residents hospitalized with virus today than yesterday, and no one is in the ICU. 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 1.2 percent and a seven-day average of 2.5 percent. By comparison, the daily positivity rate for the Capital Region is 3.5 percent and the seven-day average is 2.7 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH did not report any COVID numbers, for reasons that were not explained.

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