Jackson County Cumulative Report: 749 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 36 Deaths

(August 23, 2020 12:05 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County. As of 12 PM today, there are 749 positive cases (cumulative), and 36 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 2 new cases and one new death since yesterday’s report.

Cumulative recovered, as of August 22, 2020: 582**

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 4:10 PM August 14, there are 1,469 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 157 confirmed positive staff cases. MDOC positive case numbers are cumulative.

As of 10 AM August 19, there are 4 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

Beginning August 17th the Jackson County Township map and recovery data will be posted each Monday at the same time as the number data.

*These numbers do not reflect any cases or deaths identified through Michigan Department of Corrections. Their numbers are listed under a separate category for MDOC cases here: Michigan Statistics.

This FAQ from the Jackson County Health Department explains how the numbers are posted and what they mean.

**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	337	45.0%
Female	412	54.0%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	9.9%
20 – 29	15.8%
30 – 39	14.0%
40 – 49	17.8%
50 – 59	17.0%
60 – 69	13.5%
70 -79	7.1%
80	5.1%

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	75.8%
Black or African American	13.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.5%
Asian	0.1%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	3.2%
Other	1.6%
Unknown	5.2%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	89.1%
Hispanic / Latino	4.3%
Unknown	6.7%

Epicurve Data

The Epicurve graph available (8/23/2020) 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 Sunday according to the template which collects and runs the numbers.