COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County August 17, 2021

Numbers released on Tuesday, August 17th, 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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Known COVID-19 Cases

3609 Detected
(+9 from yesterday and +148 from last week and +364 in four weeks and +3115 or 630.57% from one year ago)

199 Active
(-8 (-3.86%) from yesterday and +36 (+22.09%) from last week and +178 (+847.62%) in four weeks and +142 or +249.12% from one year ago

3369 Recovered
(+17 from yesterday and +112 from last week and +186 in four weeks and +2936 (678.06%) 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

10281 by Macon County Public Health
(+340 from yesterday and +371 from last week and +595 in four weeks and +5441 or +126.45% from one year ago)

22348 by Others
(+149 from yesterday and +229 from last week and +683 in four weeks and +10434 or 638.95% from one year ago)

22348 Total Tests
(+489 from yesterday and +600 from last week and +1278 in four weeks and +16175 or 262.03% from one year ago)

159 tests pending results
(+15 from yesterday and +92 from last week and +4 in four weeks and +28 or +21.37% 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
(unchanged from yesterday

372 Vaccines in Inventory
unchanged from yesterday

12870 Total Vaccines Given
unchanged from yesterday

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Published at 2:40am on Wednesday, August 18, 2021