County's COVID Case Count Up By 27 Over Two-Day Period
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David Slone-
Between noon Monday and noon Wednesday, the Kosciusko County Health Department received 27 new COVID-19 cases.
This gives the county a total of 721 positive cases and eight deaths since the first case was reported in March, a news release from the KCHD states.
Of the 721 cases, 505 are recovered, 16 are hospitalized active cases and 192 are active cases.
The KCHD news release also provided some “important updates” and links to the CDC’s website for further information.
Discontinuation of isolation has changed from "at least 72 hours" to "at least 24 hours" have passed since last fever without the use of fever-reducing medications, the release states. More information on that and the following information can be found at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/disposition-in-home-patients.html.
Discontinuation of isolation has changed from "improvement in respiratory symptoms" to "improvement in symptoms" to address expanding list of symptoms associated with COVID-19.
For individuals who have severe to critical illness or who are severely immunocompromised, the duration for isolation has extended to 20 days after symptom onset or 20 days after initial positive SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test for asymptomatic severely immunocompromised, the release states.
Criteria for severe to critical illness can be found online at www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/overview/management-of-covid-19/.
A test-based strategy is no longer recommended to determine when to discontinue home isolation, except in certain circumstances. Further information can be found on the CDC’s website.
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) on Wednesday announced that 763 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 58,673 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus.
As of today, nearly 37% of ICU beds and more than 82% of ventilators are available statewide, according to the daily news release from the ISDH.
A total of 2,666 Hoosiers are confirmed to have died from COVID-19, an increase of 14 over the previous day. Another 197 probable deaths have been reported based on clinical diagnoses in patients for whom no positive test is on record. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.
To date, 654,413 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 644,805 on Tuesday.
ISDH is hosting free testing in Kosciusko County this week.
