Covid-19 has seen small decreases lately across Highland County and statewide, but is still up significantly from a couple of months ago according to Ohio Department of Health (ODH) statistics.
According to ODH, Highland County’s case rate has increase significantly since the last time The Times-Gazette reported on Covid-19 on Aug. 5, 2024. On that date, the latest statistics were from Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, which showed that Highland County’s case rate was at 64.9 cases per a population of 100,000 for the two weeks before that date.
The newest statistics for Highland County have seen that case rate skyrocket to 150.6 cases per a population of 100,000 for the two weeks before Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, with 65 cases. Ohio’s overall case rate for this period was 110.4. This increase is even slightly muted compared to the increases from a few weeks prior, as the number released on Sept. 26 is down from the data seen earlier this month.
On Sept. 19, 2024, the data showed that Highland County had a case rate of 178.4 cases per a population of 100,000 for the two weeks before then, with Ohio’s rate being 145.6. Surprisingly, even this was a drop compared to the week prior, as on Sept. 12, 2024, ODH reported that Highland County’s case rate was 187.7 cases per a population of 100,000 for the two weeks before that date, as Ohio’s rate was at 161.8
However, the county’s most significant case rate of this period was reported on Sept. 5, 2024, when the county’s case rate was 243.3 cases per a population of 100,000 for the two weeks before then. Ohio’s rate was reported at 165.2.
ODH also reported multiple other statistics that show Covid-19’s slight falling off in Ohio as a whole following the highs of a couple of weeks ago, with all of these statistics having been last updated on Sept. 26, 2024.
In terms of overall Ohio cases, from the week of Sept. 6, 2024, through Sept. 12, 2024, there was a seven-day case increase of 10,315. For the week of Sept. 13, 2024, through Sept. 19, 2024, there was a seven-day increase of 8,391 cases and then a seven-day increase of 6,103 Covid-19 cases for the week of Sept. 20, 2024, through Sept. 26, 2024. These statistics show the fall-off between a couple of weeks ago in case rate, with that case rate down significantly since early September.
In terms of Ohio hospitalizations, those have also followed a similar path, having gone down, but also went up slightly a couple of weeks ago. For the week of Sept. 6, 2024, through Sept. 12, 2024, ODH reported that there was a seven-day hospitalizations increase of 281. That number then increased during the week of Sept. 13, 2024, through Sept. 19, 2024, when there was seven-day hospitalizations increase of 311. That number then went back down, with the seven-day hospitalizations increase at 245 for the week of Sept. 20, 2024, through Sept. 26, 2024.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Covid Data Center, Ohio’s test positivity went down for the week through Sept. 21, 2024, to 12.4 percent, a decrease of 2.2 percent from the previous data set.
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