Coronavirus instances and transmission down in Clark County

This complete doesn’t embody optimistic outcomes from at-home take a look at kits the place the test-taker doesn’t self-report to the well being district.

Clark County dropped to a “medium” neighborhood stage this week, as designated by the Facilities for Illness Management. Residents of counties with a “medium” stage of transmission ought to keep up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccines, get examined if they’ve signs and contemplate carrying a facemask in public areas, significantly if residents are at high-risk for extreme sickness, in response to the CDC.

The CDC designations are based mostly on the variety of new coronavirus instances per 100,000 folks up to now week, new COVID hospital admissions and the p.c of staffed inpatient hospital beds occupied by coronavirus sufferers.

The county has seen 17 new hospitalizations attributable to COVID-19 over the previous week, Cook dinner stated.

The county’s positivity price this week was roughly 8%, which means almost one out of each 10 COVID-19 checks are coming again optimistic.

The well being district administered 1,300 COVID-19 vaccines over the previous a number of days. Based on the Ohio Division of Well being, roughly 51.6% of Clark County’s inhabitants has accomplished its vaccine sequence as of Friday.

Cook dinner additionally supplied an replace about monkeypox within the county and state.

The primary monkeypox-related fatality in Ohio was reported this week, with the age and residency of the loss of life not revealed by ODH as of Friday. Nationwide, monkeypox has a really low mortality price – lower than 1% – amongst individuals who contract the virus.

Cook dinner stated the well being district is working to manage the monkeypox vaccine to eligible folks.

Just one case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Clark County as of Friday.

By the numbers:

149: New instances reported to the Clark County Mixed Well being District this week

8: The Clark County positivity price for COVID-19 over the previous a number of days

1,300: The variety of COVID-19 vaccines administered by the Clark County well being district this week