January 22, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
The number of active COVID cases in DeKalb County has increased dramatically within the last three weeks.
At last report this week the Tennessee Department of Health recorded 417 active cases of COVID in DeKalb County, a sharp increase from 152 cases on Tuesday, January 4. Ninety with COVID have died in DeKalb County since the pandemic began in March 2020, up by 3 since January 4.
Tennessee health officials reported that they will no longer provide daily COVID-19 data releases. Weekly data will be reported by the TN Dept. of Health and can be found on their website https://www.tn.gov/content/tn/health/cedep/ncov/data.htm. TN Dept of Health reported that they would release information each Wednesday and the data will include the previous Sunday through Saturday period.
At last report 44.36% of the DeKalb County population had received at least one dose of COVID vaccine and 39.34% were fully vaccinated.
Over the seven-day period, January 9-15, DeKalb County had a daily case rate of 186.9 per 100,000 residents, up from 87.2 per 100,000 residents from the period of December 28 to January 3.
For the 14-day period, January 2-15, DeKalb County’s daily case rate was 152 per 100,000 residents, up from 55.8 per 100,000 residents for the period of December 21- January 3.
For the 14 days prior, December 19 to January 1, the daily case rate was 49.2 per 100,000 residents, up from 28.2 per 100,000 residents for the period of December 7-20.
From March 5, 2020, to January 15, 2022, DeKalb County has had a total of 4,989 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19
Over the last 7-day reporting period the average percent positive was 43.6%, up from 28.3 % in the report on January 4.