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(July 19, 2021 12:00 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County.  As of 12:00 PM today, there are 14,812 positive cases (cumulative), and 286 deaths (cumulative)*.     There are 13 new cases since yesterday’s report. Cumulative recovered, as of July 18: 14,445** As of July 14, there is 1 person at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatient for COVID-19.  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 the 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 **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). Gender Number of Cases Percent Male 6883 46.5% Female 7816 52.8% Unknown 113 0.8% The Age group is reported as a percentage of the total instead of the…

(July 16, 2021 5:12 PM) Michigan reported 881* coronavirus (COVID-19) positive test cases today, with the state reported total now at 896,717. Michigan is reporting 16** COVID-19-related deaths today with the state total at 19,848.   *Note on cases (07/13/2021): Today's case count represents new referrals of confirmed cases to the MDSS since Friday, July 9th.  Over the four days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday), the average number of new confirmed cases is ~162 per day. **The deaths announced today includes 27 deaths identified during a Vital Records review. Regular reviews of death certificate data maintained in Vital Records reporting systems are conducted by MDHHS staff two times per week. As a part of this process, records that identify COVID-19 infection as a contributing factor to death are compared against all laboratory confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS). If a death certificate is matched to a confirmed COVID-19 case and that record in the MDSS does not indicate the individual died, the MDSS record is updated to indicate the death and the appropriate local health department is notified. These matched deaths are then included with mortality information posted to the Michigan Coronavirus website. As a result…

(July 16, 2021 10:19 AM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County.  As of 10:00 AM today, there are 14,799 positive cases (cumulative), and 286 deaths (cumulative)*.     There are 5 new cases since yesterday’s report. Cumulative recovered, as of July 16: 14,438** As of July 14, there is 1 person at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.  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 **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). Gender Number of Cases Percent Male 6877 46.5% Female 7810 52.8% Unknown 112 0.8% The Age group is reported as a percentage of the total instead of the actual number. …