COVID rate still high in Delco as hospitalizations decrease

MEDIA – Numbers of COVID nonetheless hover within the excessive vary in Delaware County, although there are indicators of a change, akin to decreases in hospitalizations.

“There’s been a rise in development of Delaware County whole variety of new weekly COVID case, however it’s a reverse within the reporting from the interval earlier,” Delaware County Well being Division Director Melissa Lyon stated. “So, we’ve gone down about 2.7 %.”

The final report, she defined, was 1,130 new instances in every week and the latest was 1,100 for the week.

Lyon famous that these solely embrace the reported instances, not people who’re doing house exams. She stated they anticipate that the actuals are nearer to 4 instances what’s being reported.

The variety of new each day instances in Delaware County, the director reported, dropped from 316 to 157 – a development being seen within the Delaware Valley.

In Could, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention moved Delaware County to a excessive degree of COVID transmission and Delaware County officers responded by requiring masks in any respect county buildings for all people, staff and guests, no matter vaccination standing.

At Wednesday’s county council assembly, Lyon added, “The excellent news is hospitalizations are nonetheless remaining low.”

They’ve elevated however are nonetheless low, she stated, including the rise is at 6.4 % in comparison with 9.1 % the week earlier.

And, she stated, the typical variety of sufferers on ventilators is minimal, as effectively from 0.3 to 1.4 now, which is 1 to 2 folks every week on a ventilator.

“This positively signifies that we’re having immunity in our group regardless if it was pure an infection or by vaccinations,” Lyon stated. “And hospitalizations have stayed pretty the identical.”