Jackson County Cumulative Report: 1,595 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 60 Deaths

(October 22, 2020 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 1,595 positive cases (cumulative), and 60 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 30 new cases since yesterday’s report.

Cumulative recovered, as of October 22, 2020: 983**

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 5:40 PM October 16, there are 1,693 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 179 confirmed positive staff cases. MDOC positive case numbers are cumulative.

As of 7 AM October 22, there 20 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

The Jackson County Township map and recovery data will be posted each Monday.

*These numbers do not reflect any cases or deaths identified through Michigan Department of Corrections. Their numbers are listed under a separate category “Others” for the Michigan Statistics.

**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	679	42.6%
Female	916	57.4%
Unknown	0	0.0%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	11.7%
20 – 29	16.4%
30 – 39	11.9%
40 – 49	14.9%
50 – 59	16.2%
60 – 69	13.7%
70 -79	7.7%
80	7.5%

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

Race	% of overall case by race
Caucasian	81.1%
Black or African American	8.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.3%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	3.1%
Other	2.3%
Unknown	4.0%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	91.6%
Hispanic / Latino	3.2%
Unknown	5.2%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph available (thru 10/18/2020) 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.