COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County August 20, 2021

Numbers released on Friday, August 20th, 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 surge in numbers.

Below is a new chart that may be of some use to the public. It measures the change in the numbers of detected COVID-19 cases from Friday to Friday as a percentage change from the previous Friday. It starts on Friday, May 20th, which saw a 0.57% increase in detected cases over the previous week.

See the COVID-19 Report from one year ago today at [MaconMedia.com]

Known COVID-19 Cases

3713 Detected
(+29 from yesterday and +177 from last week and +468 in four weeks and +3206 or 632.35% from one year ago)

224 Active
(+16 (+7.69%) from yesterday and +41 (+22.40%) from last week and +203 (+966.67%) in four weeks and +182 or +433.33% from one year ago

3446 Recovered
(+13 from yesterday and +134 from last week and +263 in four weeks and +2985 (647.51%) from one year ago)

43 Deaths
(unchanged from yesterday and +2 from last week and +2 in four weeks and +39 or 975.00% from one year ago)

Testing numbers reported to the health department

10415 by Macon County Public Health
(+56 from yesterday and +474 from last week and +729 in four weeks and +5803 or +125.83% from one year ago)

12262 by Others
(+130 from yesterday and +344 from last week and +878 in four weeks and +10582 or 629.88% from one year ago)

22677 Total Tests
(+186 from yesterday and +818 from last week and +1607 in four weeks and +16385 or 260.41% from one year ago)

133 tests pending results
(+14 from yesterday and +3 from last week and +143 in four weeks and +52 or +54.74% 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

327 Vaccines in Inventory (-45 vaccines from Monday)
unchanged from yesterday

12901 Total Vaccines Given (31 given this week)
unchanged from yesterday

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Published at 6:00pm on Friday, August 20, 2021