Jackson County Cumulative Report: 6,143 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 108* Deaths

(December 9, 2020 3:51 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County. As of 2:30 PM today, there are 6,143 positive cases (cumulative), and 108 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 165 new cases since yesterday’s report.

Cumulative recovered, as of December 8, 2020: 2,566**

*Today’s data includes 20 additional deaths since yesterday’s report. According to the Jackson County Health Department, these additional deaths occurred during the month of November. The surge in cases and information pouring into the statewide COVID-19 database resulted in changes in how the JCHD ran their data reports. As a result, the county website data did not adequately capture the number of COVID deaths in Jackson County during the month of November. The data now reflects the additional deaths (20) that occurred in the month of November.

Matthew Budd, Director of Personal and Preventative Health Services for JCHD told JTV News that the additional deaths did not occur from one singular outbreak and that the circumstances surrounding each death are unique. “Our team continued to respond to COVID-19 requests from individuals and congregate care settings and continued to get updates from medical examiners and the state when deaths did occur in the county; it is only on the data reporting side of our COVID-19 strategy that we missed updating this information,” said Budd.

Budd adds, “the department strives to be transparent in our efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 in the community and will continue to provide information and resources in a transparent and expedient manner.”

The cumulative numbers posted on Mondays include the data from Sunday and Monday. Recovered numbers are being posted as received.

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 4 PM December 4, there are 2,960 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 350 confirmed positive staff cases. MDOC positive case numbers are cumulative.

As of 11 AM December 7, there 78 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

Note: Jackson County will post COVID-19 data daily by mid-afternoon, Monday-Saturday, keeping with the schedule established by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The cumulative numbers posted on Monday will include the data from Sunday and Monday. Recovered numbers are being posted as received. Epicurve data and Township maps are also posted on Mondays by 3:30 PM.

*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

**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	2757	44.9%
Female	3349	54.5%
Unknown	37	0.6%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	10.6%
20 – 29	16.7%
30 – 39	13.5%
40 – 49	14.0%
50 – 59	17.0%
60 – 69	13.3%
70 -79	8.6%
80	6.3%

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

Race	% of overall case by race
Caucasian	72.0%
Black or African American	6.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.2%
Asian	0.4%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	1.1%
Other	6.4%
Unknown	13.2%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	78.5%
Hispanic / Latino	2.4%
Unknown	19.1%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph available (thru 12/06/2020) 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.