Jackson County Cumulative Report: 554 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 31 Deaths

(July 18, 2020 1:23 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County. As of 12 PM today, there are 554 positive cases (cumulative), and 31 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 11 new cases since yesterday’s report.

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 3 PM Sunday, July 13, there are 1,608 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 157 confirmed positive staff cases.

As of 10 AM July 16, there are 3 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

Cumulative recovered** patients (cumulative): 436 (updated weekly, as of July 17).

*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	261	47.1%
Female	293	52.9%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	5.8%
20 – 29	16.6%
30 – 39	15.2%
40 – 49	19.5%
50 – 59	17.5%
60 – 69	14.1%
70 -79	5.8%
80	5.6%

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	71.5%
Black or African American	14.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.2%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	4.2%
Other	1.1%
Unknown	8.1%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	85.9%
Hispanic / Latino	4.0%
Unknown	10.1%

Epicurve Data

A new item is being added to the data today (7/18/2020) which will allow you to see how the daily number of cases have gone up and down since the first case was identified in March.