HANCOCK COUNTY — The county added three COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, all from Sept. 13 — the most in a single day since January.
The deaths raised the county’s total to 159. Two were age 80 or older and one was in their 50s, according to information from the Indiana Department of Health. Two were women and one was a man.
Indiana added 68 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, occurring between Aug. 21 and Sept. 14, raising the total to 14,550. State deaths have been trending upward, but remain well below a single-day peak of 125 in late December 2020.
COVID-19 hospitalizations throughout the state continue to climb closer to last winter’s surge, however, with 2,527 as of Sept. 14. The most Indiana has had in a single day was 3,460 on Nov. 30, 2020.
Hancock County added 57 cases Wednesday, raising that total to 10,534; the state added 4,733, for a total of 918,230. After dipping slightly earlier this month, the county’s and state’s daily case counts have resumed upward trends.
The county’s COVID-19 advisory level remained orange, the second most severe. All counties are orange or red, the most severe, except for Porter County, which is yellow, the second least severe.
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COVID-19 data through early Wednesday, Sept. 15
Hancock County
- 533 new tests administered (Aug. 15-Sept. 14)
- 57 new cases (Sept. 14)
- 12.5% seven-day (Sept. 2-8) positivity rate all tests, 8.8% cumulative rate
- 3 new deaths (Sept. 13)
- 139,796 total tests administered
- 10,534 total cases
- 19.8% seven-day (Sept. 2-8) positivity rate unique individuals, 20.1% positivity rate
- 159 total deaths
- 41,590 age 12+ fully vaccinated (62.5% of that population)
Indiana
- 57,612 new tests administered (April 24, 2020-Sept. 14, 2021), 11,496 new individuals tested
- 4,733 new cases (Sept. 14)
- 11.8% seven-day (Sept. 2-8) positivity rate all tests, 8.7% cumulative rate
- 68 new deaths (Aug. 21-Sept. 14)
- 12,960,663 total tests administered
- 4,070,643 total individuals tested
- 918,230 total cases
- 21.2% seven-day (Sept. 2-8) positivity rate unique individuals, 22.6% cumulative rate
- 14,550 total deaths
- 461 total probable deaths
- 49.3% ICU beds in use – non-COVID
- 32.4% ICU beds in use – COVID
- 18.3% ICU beds available
- 21.1% ventilators in use – non-COVID
- 14.6% ventilators in use – COVID
- 64.3% ventilators available
- Hospital census: 2,527 total COVID-19 patients (2,274 confirmed, 253 under investigation)
- Delta variant: 97% of samples in current month
- Not variant of concern: 2% of samples in current month
- Alpha variant: 0.9% of samples in current month
- Gamma variant: 0.2% of samples in current month
- 108 total confirmed cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
- 3,180,415 age 12+ fully vaccinated (54.2% of that population)
- 22,666 breakthrough cases (0.72% of fully vaccinated individuals)
- 523 breakthrough hospitalizations (0.017% of fully vaccinated individuals)
- 144 breakthrough deaths (0.005% of fully vaccinated individuals)
Source: Indiana Department of Health
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