Jackson County Cumulative Report: 39,340 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 548 Deaths

(March 31, 2022 1:55 PM)  The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County.  As of 12:00 PM today, there are 39,340 positive cases (cumulative), and 548 deaths (cumulative)*.  

There are 10 new cases since yesterday’s report.

Henry Ford Health continues to see a decline in COVID cases across all their hospitals, reaching the lowest COVID-19 inpatient numbers in nearly two years (32 cases). Henry Ford Jackson Hospital is in the low single digits for cases. This will be Henry Ford Health’s last update about COVID numbers unless there is a significant rise in cases. 

The Jackson County Health Department has announced a change in reporting effective Oct. 6, 2021.  Cases defined as probable will be reported in cumulative case and death counts.  As additional methods of testing besides the PCR test have become more common, the amount of cases classified as probable has increased and are included to provide a more accurate picture of disease in our community. 

Cumulative recovered, as of March 31:  38,521**

The cumulative numbers posted on Mondays include the data from Saturday, Sunday and Monday.  Recovered numbers are being posted as received. 

*These numbers do not reflect any cases or deaths identified through Michigan Department of Corrections.  Their numbers are listed under a separate category and reported by the state at Michigan Statistics.

Cases reported involving Jackson County school students or staff are included in our posted numbers.  For details regarding cases and outbreaks at Michigan schools please see https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173_102480—,00.html

* Cases, Deaths, and Recovered all include confirmed and probable.

**Recovered is defined as the number of persons with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis who are alive 30 days post-onset (or referral date if onset is not available).

Confirmed Cases- PCR test processed at lab	Probable Cases- positive antigen test or link to PCR confirmed case
34,204	5,136

Probable cases include individuals with either a positive proctored rapid antigen test OR COVID-19 symptoms and an epidemiologic link to a confirmed COVID-19 case.  If a probable case, during the isolation period, meets the criteria for a confirmed case they will be subtracted from the probable total and added to the confirmed case count.

For more in depth data see Michigan Coronavirus dashboard.  https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173—,00.html 

Gender	Number of Cases	Percent
Male	17,985	45.7%
Female	20,793	52.9%
Unknown	562	1.4%

The Age group is reported as a percentage of the total instead of the actual number. 

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	20.1%
20 – 29	16.4%
30 – 39	16.0%
40 – 49	13.7%
50 – 59	14.3%
60 – 69	10.2%
70 -79	5.5%
80	3.6%
Unknown	0.3%

Note: Totals may not add to 100% due to rounding

Race	% of overall case by race
Caucasian	68.2%
Black or African American	6.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.4%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.1%
Multiple Races	0.7%
Other	5.9%
Unknown	17.8%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	72.9%
Hispanic / Latino	2.9%
Unknown	24.0%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph available  (thru 3/27/2022) will allow you to see how the daily number of cases have gone up and down since the first case was identified in March.  You can open the Epicurve Data here.  EpiCurve data will be posted each Monday according to the template which collects and runs the numbers.