Jackson County Cumulative Report: 15,536 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 294 Deaths

(August 23, 2021 12:00 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County. As of 12 PM today, there are 15,536 positive cases (cumulative), and 294 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 88 new cases since Friday’s report.

Cumulative recovered, as of August 23: 14,599**

As of August 18, there are 14 persons 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	7193	46.3%
Female	8220	52.9%
Unknown	123	0.8%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	16.8%
20 – 29	17.2%
30 – 39	14.5%
40 – 49	13.9%
50 – 59	15.5%
60 – 69	11.5%
70 -79	6.2%
80	4.4%

Race and Ethnicity tables were added on April, 8, 2020.

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

Race	% of overall case by race
Caucasian	71.6%
Black or African American	7.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.4%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.1%
Multiple Races	1.3%
Other	5.4%
Unknown	13.9%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	78.6%
Hispanic / Latino	3.2%
Unknown	18.0%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph available (thru 8/22/2021) 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.