Richland Public Health reports 853 COVID-19 cases in past 2 weeks

MANSFIELD — Richland Public Health issued its coronavirus pandemic update on Friday, Aug. 27. It’s next report will be released on Friday, Sept. 10.

This report was issued as of noon on Friday, Aug. 27. Richland County data is from Richland Public Health and Ohio data from ODH. The U.S. and Global data is from Johns Hopkins.

Since the first case on March 19, 2020, Richland County has 9,863 confirmed positive pandemic cases with 3,184 probable cases for a total of 13,047 cumulative cases (853 new cases in the past two weeks*). There have been 707 hospitalizations with 44 COVID positive patients currently hospitalized (of those 13 are in the ICU and 17 are currently ventilated).

There have been 223 confirmed pandemic deaths. 11,750 people on the cumulative list have recovered.

* Of the current cases, 142 are between the ages of 0-19; 136 between 20-29; 123 between 40-49; and 113 between 30-39. This represents a 9% increase in positive cases in this age group from July 1 to Aug. 27 compared to all cases in this age group in Richland County between March 19, 2020 and June 30, 2021.

There has been a corresponding 9% drop in cases among those 60 and up over the same time period. The vaccination rate (for those eligible) younger than 50 in Richland County is 35% as opposed to 65% vaccinated for ages 50 and above.

NOTE: Due to a software problem, Richland Public Health is unable to do a Zip Code map of COVID spread in Richland County this week. Based on these numbers, the entire county has active spread (dark green), except for the less populated areas of 44822, 44837, 44843, and 44865. This is the most active cases since January.

Ohio has 994,199 confirmed positive pandemic cases with 203,675 probable cases for 1,197,874 total cases (42,551 cases in the last two weeks). Ohio has 20,723 pandemic deaths (up 117 in the last two weeks). There are or have been 65,035 individuals hospitalized in Ohio (up 1,918 in the last two weeks) with 8,751 ICU admissions (up 259 in the last two weeks). Ohio’s presumed-recovered count is 1,117,376.

The U.S. has 38,300,233 cumulative pandemic cases. U.S. cumulative deaths: 632,889. In the Last 28 days: 3,550,339 cases and 20,342 deaths.

Global cumulative pandemic cases: 214,346,831 cases with 4,470,113 pandemic deaths. In the Last 28 Days: 17,934,973 cases and 272,637 deaths. Total global COVID-19 vaccine doses administered: 5,075,351,599.