Editor’s Note: Due to recent changes in the frequency of data reported by the Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Valley Publishing’s COVID update is now only appearing once a week in the Saturday editions.
OHIO VALLEY – Since the release of last week’s update, there has been one additional death as well as 180 new COVID-19 cases reported in the Ohio Valley Publishing section on Friday.
Statistics from Friday, May 27th:
In Gallia County, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reported 54 new COVID-19 cases.
In Meigs County, ODH reported 30 new COVID-19 cases.
In Mason County, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reported the additional death of one person aged 61 to 70 related to COVID-19. DHHR also reported 96 new cases of COVID-19.
Here’s a closer look at local COVID-19 data:
County of Gallia
According to ODH’s update Thursday, Gallia County has had a total of 7,670 cases (54 new), 412 hospital admissions (4 new), and 127 deaths since the pandemic began in 2020. Of the 7,670 cases, 7,382 (25 new) are considered recovered.
Case dates are as follows:
0-19 – 1,527 cases (7 new), 14 hospitalizations
20-29 – 1,235 cases (6 new), 22 hospital admissions, 2 deaths
30-39 – 1,119 cases (7 new), 21 hospital admissions, 1 death
40-49 – 1,114 cases (7 new), 37 hospital admissions, 8 deaths
50-59 – 1,016 cases (14 new), 65 hospital admissions, 14 deaths
60-69 – 830 cases (4 new), 74 hospital admissions (2 new), 22 deaths
70-79 – 511 cases (5 new), 105 hospitalizations (1 new), 32 deaths
Over 80 – 318 cases (4 new), 74 hospitalizations (1 new), 45 deaths
Gallia County vaccination rates are as follows, according to the ODH:
Vaccination started: 14,679 (49.10 percent of population);
Completed vaccinations: 13,560 (45.35 percent of the population).
Meigs County
Meigs County has had a total of 4,742 cases (30 new), 242 hospitalizations (3 new), and 88 deaths since the pandemic began in 2020, according to ODH’s update Thursday. Of the 4,742 cases, 4,570 (17 new) are considered recovered.
Case dates are as follows:
0-19 – 916 cases (5 new), 11 hospitalizations
20-29 – 675 cases (3 new), 5 hospitalizations, 1 death
30-39 – 625 cases (5 new), 15 hospitalizations, 1 death
40-49 – 687 cases (4 new), 18 hospitalizations, 2 deaths
50-59 – 670 cases (6 new), 38 hospitalizations, 10 deaths
60-69 – 565 cases (3 new), 58 hospitalizations (1 new), 14 deaths
70-79 – 372 cases (1 new), 57 hospitalizations (1 new), 33 deaths
Over 80 – 232 cases (3 new), 40 hospitalizations (1 new), 26 deaths
Meigs County vaccination rates are as follows, according to the ODH:
Vaccination started: 11,430 (49.89 percent of population);
Completed vaccinations: 10,517 (45.90 percent of the population).
Mason County
Mason County has had 6,845 cases (96 new) of COVID-19 and 94 deaths (1 new) since the pandemic began in 2020, according to the 10 a.m. Friday DHHR update. DHHR reports that there are currently 42 active cases and 6,709 recovered cases in Mason County.
(editor Note: Case data includes both confirmed and probable cases Cases.)
Case dates are as follows:
0-4 — 153 cases (3 new)
5-11 – 324 cases (4 new)
12-15 – 338 cases (3 new)
16-20 – 479 cases (4 new)
21-25 – 553 cases (6 new)
26-30 – 624 cases (6 new)
31-40 – 1,132 cases (15 new), 2 deaths
41-50 – 1,054 cases (11 new), 3 deaths
51-60 – 898 cases (21 new), 12 deaths
61-70 – 676 cases (12 new), 17 deaths (1 new)
71+ – 614 cases (11 new), 60 deaths
Additional county case data since vaccinations began on December 14, 2020:
Total cases since vaccination start: 5,934 (95 new);
Total cases in people not reported fully vaccinated – 4,940 (65 new);
Total breakthrough cases among fully vaccinated – 994 (30 new);
Total deaths in not fully vaccinated individuals – 76 (1 new);
Total breakthrough deaths in fully vaccinated individuals – 7.
A total of 12,285 people in Mason County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, which is 46.3 percent of the population, according to the DHHR, with 10,398 being fully vaccinated, or 39.2 percent of the population.
Mason County is currently yellow on the West Virginia County alert system.
Mason County has had 34 confirmed cases of the delta variant. 15 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Mason County.
Ohio
According to ODH’s Thursday update, in the past seven days there were 19,546 cases (21-day average of 18,351), 506 new hospital admissions (21-day average of 444), 30 new ICU admissions (21-day average of 33) and 38 new deaths in the last 24 hours (21-day average of 45) for a total of 38,628 deaths reported. (Editor’s note: ODH now updates COVID-19 data once a week.)
According to the ODH, vaccination rates in Ohio are as follows:
Vaccination started: 7,333,521 (62.74 percent of the population);
Completed vaccines: 6,807,082 (58.23 percent of the population).
On May 26, ODH reports the following groundbreaking information:
COVID-19 deaths in people not reported fully vaccinated – 23,736;
COVID-19 deaths in fully vaccinated individuals – 1,271;
COVID-19 hospitalizations since January 1, 2021 among individuals not reported fully vaccinated – 68,240;
COVID-19 hospitalizations since January 1, 2021 among people reported fully vaccinated – 4,640.
West Virginia
According to the DHHR’s 10 a.m. Friday update, there have been a total of 513,953 cases since the pandemic began, with 648 reported since the DHHR’s last update. DHHR as of Friday reports 90,210 “breakthrough” cases with a total of 876 breakthrough-related deaths statewide (counts include cases after COVID-19 vaccination began/December 14, 2020). There have been a total of 6,945 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began, three since the last update. There are currently 2,377 active cases in the state with a daily positivity rate of 8.42 percent and a cumulative positivity rate of 8.13 percent.
Statewide, 1,131,783 West Virginia residents have received at least one dose of COVID-19 (63.2 percent of the population). A total of 54.6 percent of the population, 978,333 people, were fully vaccinated.
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Kayla (Hawthorne) Dunham is a staff writer for Ohio Valley Publishing, reach her at 304-675-1333 ext. 1992
