Jackson County Cumulative Report: 787 COVID-19 Positive Cases and 39 Deaths

(August 28, 2020 12:00 PM) The Jackson County Health Department released the COVID-19 positive numbers for Jackson County. As of 12 PM today, there are 787 positive cases (cumulative), and 39 deaths (cumulative)*.

There are 13 new cases since yesterday’s report.

Cumulative recovered, as of August 28, 2020: 618**

The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting as of 6:30 PM August 21, there are 1,470 confirmed positive cases at Jackson facilities and 158 confirmed positive staff cases. MDOC positive case numbers are cumulative.

As of 9 AM August 26, there are 3 persons at Henry Ford Allegiance Health being treated as inpatients for COVID-19.

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	350	45.2%
Female	424	54.8%

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

Age – Years	Percent
0 -19	10.3%
20 – 29	16.0%
30 – 39	14.0%
40 – 49	17.3%
50 – 59	16.7%
60 – 69	13.6%
70 -79	7.2%
80	4.9%

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	76.2%
Black or African American	12.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.5%
Asian	0.1%
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0.0%
Multiple Races	3.1%
Other	1.6%
Unknown	5.6%

Ethnicity	% of overall case by ethnicity
Non-Hispanic/Latino	89.0%
Hispanic / Latino	4.1%
Unknown	6.8%

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.