COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County August 9, 2021

Numbers released on Thursday, August 6th, 2021.

Here are the latest COVID-19 numbers Macon Public Health, along with a couple of charts by Macon Media to show you the long-term trends since April 17th, 2020, when the health department started releasing numbers to the public. In June and July, the health department released numbers on a wekly basis on Fridays, and in August has switched back to releasing numbers everyday once it became evident that we were about to see another sdurge in numbers.

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See the COVID-19 Report from one year ago today at [MaconMedia.com] (August 9th was a Sunday, so here is the report from Monday, August 10th, 2020.

Known COVID-19 Cases

3441 Detected
(+81 from yesterday and +150 from last week and +210 in four weeks and +2961 or 616.88% from one year ago)

159 Active
(+64 (+2.15%) from yesterday and +105 (+194.44%) from last week and +140 (+736.84%) in four weeks and +96 or +152.38% from one year ago

3241 Recovered
(+17 from yesterday and +46 from last week and +70 in four weeks and +2828 (684.75%) from one year ago)

41 Deaths
(unchanged from yesterday and unchanged from last week and unchanged in four weeks and +37 or 925.00% from one year ago)

Testing numbers reported to the health department

9845 by Macon County Public Health
(unchanged from yesterday and +1113 from last week and +171 in four weeks and +5501 or +126.63% from one year ago)

11808 by Others
(+149 from yesterday and +326 from last week and +504 in four weeks and +10260 or +662.80% from one year ago)

21653 Total Tests
(+149 from yesterday and +439 from last week and +675 in four weeks and +15761 or 267.50% from one year ago)

28 tests pending results
(-54 from yesterday and +6 from last week and unchanged in four weeks and -2214 or -0.89% from one year ago)

Vaccine Delivery Statistics
(editor's note: there may be an error in the health department reported numbers. Despite them showing 134 shots given yesterday, the total number of shots did not change. This section is the same as it was yesterday and the day before.)

0 Vaccines Given Today


202 Vaccines in Inventory


12812 Total Vaccines Given


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Published at 6:30pm on Monday, August 09, 2021