Jackson County Cumulative Report: 589 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 31 Deaths

(July 23, 2020 12:14 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County. As of 12 PM today, there are 589 positive cases (cumulative), and 31 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 13 new cases since yesterday’s report. This is the largest single day increase since April 30 when 13 new cases were reported.

The Jackson County Health Department says summer activities and a more active community are leading to an increase in positive COVID-19 numbers. The department says they are seeing community transmission of the virus along with community members who are also asymptomatic, or silent spreaders.

Health Department spokesperson Rhonda Rudolph said, “Combine summer activities which include travel, both via plane and car, dining out, visiting friends and relatives both in and out of state, or attending crowded events such as firework shows, lake parties or house parties and there are more chances for the virus to spread AND more places to contract it. We have epidemiological evidence that large indoor and outdoor activities have had outbreaks, as well as domestic travel.”

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 2:45 PM Sunday, July 19, there are 1,379 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 158 confirmed positive staff cases.

As of 2 AM July 22, there are 5 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

*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	278	47.2%
Female	311	52.8%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	6.5%
20 – 29	16.5%
30 – 39	14.6%
40 – 49	19.5%
50 – 59	17.3%
60 – 69	14.3%
70 -79	5.8%
80	5.3%

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	72.7%
Black or African American	14.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.2%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	4.1%
Other	1.4%
Unknown	7.1%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	86.9%
Hispanic / Latino	3.7%
Unknown	9.3%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph is available today (7/19/2020) 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. You can open the Epicurve Data here. EpiCurve data will be posted each Sunday according to the template which collects and runs the numbers.