

The percentage of emergency department visits due to COVID-19 symptoms rose from 0.9% to 1.2%. The average daily number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators declined from 3.3 to 2.4. The average daily number of COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped from 32.6 to 30.1. The positivity rate for COVID-19 tests declined from 25.4% to 21.4%. The rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents increased from 108.3 to 128.6. 7-13, according to the state health department: Here is a look at the county's other COVID-19 measurements between Aug. If you want to receive a vaccine from your Hamot or Saint Vincent provider, call their office or visit /coronavirus/covid-vaccine or ahn.org/coronavirus/vaccine/schedule.html. To make a vaccine appointment at Corry Memorial, call 81, Ext. To receive a vaccine at the LECOM Center for Health and Aging, visit or call 81. More: New COVID-19 vaccine boosters available in Erie County
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You must already have received your primary series of COVID-19 vaccines to get a booster shot. The new boosters now are available at many physician offices, vaccine clinics and chain pharmacies.
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How to get new COVID-19 vaccine boosterĬlark and Berringer each recommended people get the boosters that are designed to protect against omicron's BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants. More: Has the COVID vaccine finally reached annual flu shot status? Health officials are hopeful.

It depends on whether a new, more severe COVID-19 variant dominates and how many people get the new COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. "It's acting more like the flu does now than it did, say, during the delta surge."Īnd while COVID cases, hospitalizations and death have surged in the county each of the past two autumns, epidemiologists from across the country said this fall could be different. "The people we see with serious COVID illness now tend to be older patients with chronic diseases or cancers," Clark said. The number of county residents with COVID who needed ventilators, an indication of a serious infection, has remained between zero and four all summer, the state health department reported.įourteen county residents have died due to COVID since July 1, the county health department reported. 26, after increasing from the low 20s the previous month.Īs Clark said, few of those people have suffered life-threatening illness due to the virus. The 14-day moving average of people hospitalized each day with COVID has remained between 31.1 and 35.8 since Aug. While case totals have remained consistent, so has the county's number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. They are taking an at-home test or not testing at all, so the numbers are actually much higher." "People have to take a PCR test to have their case reported and many, many people with COVID aren't getting a PCR test. "And those are just the reported numbers," said Charlotte Berringer, R.N., director of community health services for the Erie County Department of Health. Health officials have said the higher case counts this summer are due to omicron's ability to spread and the elimination of most masking and social distancing requirements. This (surge) could be here for weeks to come.There has been no significant decline in new cases like the county saw in the summer of 2021, when only 202 new cases were reported in July and 188 in August. "This is the holiday season and people are getting together all the time," said Christopher Clark, D.O., Saint Vincent president. Though Erie County saw an increase last week in initial COVID-19 vaccine doses, local health officials said they don't believe this current surge will end soon. Of those 372 cases reported last week, 77 were children younger than 5 and 295 were children ages 5 to 18.Įrie hospitals reported only a couple of children have been admitted due to COVID-19 in recent weeks.
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The COVID-19 Data Webpage provides access to the full Fresno County Data Hub and the Vaccine Dashboard. For the most up-to-date COVID-19 data, please visit the FCDPH - COVID-19 Data Webpage. 1-7, the state Health Department reported. The Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH) is transitioning away from posting weekly COVID-19 numbers to this webpage.

The county's number of COVID-19 cases among children increased from 315 between Nov. More: UPMC Hamot antibody injections for COVID-19 cut treatment time by 50%
