Jackson County Cumulative Report: 1,748 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 63 Deaths

(October 26, 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 1,748 positive cases (cumulative), and 63 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 65 new cases since Saturday’s report.

Cumulative recovered, as of October 26, 2020: 1030**

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 6:30 PM October 24, there are 1,695 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 185 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. The map was not available at 12 PM and will be posted as soon as it is provided.

*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	741	42.4%
Female	1003	57.4%
Unknown	4	0.2%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	11.8%
20 – 29	15.9%
30 – 39	12.0%
40 – 49	14.5%
50 – 59	16.2%
60 – 69	14.5%
70 -79	7.7%
80	7.3%

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

Race	% of overall case by race
Caucasian	81.0%
Black or African American	8.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.2%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	2.9%
Other	2.6%
Unknown	4.5%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	90.8%
Hispanic / Latino	3.0%
Unknown	6.2%

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.