COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County August 26, 2021

Numbers released on Thursday, August 26th, 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.

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Here 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

3889 Detected
(+30 from yesterday and +205 from last week and +609 in four weeks and +3351 or 622.86% from one year ago)

228 Active
(+1 (+0.44%) from yesterday and +20 (+9.62%) from last week and +184 (+418.18%) in four weeks and +195 or +590.91% from one year ago

3618 Recovered
(+29 from yesterday and +185 from last week and +423 in four weeks and +3117 (622.16%) 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

10613 by Macon County Public Health
(+66 from yesterday and +254 from last week and +893 in four weeks and +5680 or +115.14% from one year ago)

12581 by Others
(unchanged from yesterday and +449 from last week and +1108 in four weeks and +10853 or 628.07% from one year ago)

23194 Total Tests
(+66 from yesterday and +703 from last week and +2001 in four weeks and +16553 or 248.21% from one year ago)

80 tests pending results
(-4 from yesterday and -53 from last week and +70 in four weeks and -68 or -45.95% 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
+697 from yesterday

12935 Total Vaccines Given (0 given this week)
unchanged from yesterday

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Published at 7:00pm on Thursday, August 26, 2021