Jackson County Cumulative Report: 30,351 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 450 Deaths

(January 6, 2022 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 30,351 positive cases (cumulative), and 450 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 303 new cases and 2 new deaths since yesterday’s report.

As of January 3, there are 46 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

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 January 6: 26,618**

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 – rapid test by trained staff or symptomatic and contact with confirmed positive
26,948	3,403

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	13,982	46.1%
Female	16,004	52.7%
Unknown	365	1.2%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	19.1%
20 – 29	16.6%
30 – 39	15.7%
40 – 49	13.5%
50 – 59	14.3%
60 – 69	10.6%
70 -79	5.8%
80	3.7%
Unknown	0.1%

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

Race	% of overall case by race
Caucasian	69.0%
Black or African American	6.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.4%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.1%
Multiple Races	0.9%
Other	5.7%
Unknown	17.0%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	74.5%
Hispanic / Latino	2.9%
Unknown	22.5%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph available (thru 1/03/2022) 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.