The average covid case in Allegheny County drops to the lowest in the month

Allegheny County reported 340 more cases on Wednesday, as the weekly number returned to lower averages.

The county’s seven-day average of new cases fell from 491 on Tuesday to 351 on Wednesday. It is the lowest seven-day average from 326 on March 25. For the month, the county has an average of 436 cases of covid per day.

Last week’s totals were distorted by a data warehouse by a laboratory in the Pittsburgh area. Last Wednesday’s report included 1,321 cases after a lab with locations in Ross and Upper St. Clair reported test results for three months at a time.

Of the new cases reported, 238 are confirmed and 102 are likely, according to the Allegheny County Health Department. The total case of the county increased to 94,841.

Westmoreland County added 137 covide cases – 72 confirmed and 65 probable – with a total increase to 31,830.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported an additional 4,602 cases, bringing the total to 1,118,470. In the state, Philadelphia recorded the most cases on Wednesday with 747, followed by Allegheny (340), Bucks (284), Montgomery (240) and Delaware (232).

Here’s a look at other counties in the region, with their changes on Tuesday:

• Armstrong: 5,567 (+23)
• Beaver: 14,335 (+37)
• Butler: 16,387 (+49)
• Fayette: 12,124 (+49)
• Indiana: 5,783 (+23)
• Somerset: 7,334 (+18)
• Washington: 16,490 (+72)

deaths

Of the 60 deaths reported on Wednesday in the state, 57 are from April and three are from March.

The health department of Allegheny County reported 12 additional deaths to total 1,849. Of these deaths, one was in December and 11 in April, aged between one person aged 50, one in 60, five in 70, three in 80 and two in 90.

The state health department reported another death in Allegheny County to increase the total to 1,879. The discrepancy between the reporting methods of the two health departments has not been fully explained.

Westmoreland County recorded three additional deaths, bringing the total to 731. Here is how deaths in Westmoreland County are decomposing each month since the beginning of the pandemic:

• March 2020: 0
• April 2020: 34
• May 2020: 4
• June 2020: 1
• July 2020: 7
• August 2020: 5
• September 2020: 6
• October 2020: 60
• November 2020: 133
• December 2020: 234
• January: 151
• February: 49
• March: 26
• April 21

Fayette County added three, while Beaver, Butler and Washington had one each.

Long-term care facilities and nursing homes recorded 13,054 covide deaths, representing more than 50% of the state’s total. Montgomery County has the most with 1,091, followed by Allegheny (1,023), Delaware (837), Philadelphia (836) and Bucks (692).

hospitalization

Covid hospitalizations in the state reached their highest point in more than two months on Wednesday, with 2,842. It is the highest daily total since 2,890 were hospitalized on February 9. It is also almost double the lowest point in the state, when on March 14 only 1,433 covis patients were hospitalized.

Covide hospitalizations in Allegheny County have increased by nine to 290, with 82 people in intensive care and 40 in need of ventilators. The 290 patients are the second largest total in the last month – they were 299 on April 13. The county reached a low level on March 16, when only 135 covis patients were hospitalized, but the number has steadily increased in the last month. .

Covide hospitalizations in Westmoreland County increased by one to 60, with 16 patients in intensive care and nine needed ventilators. Covid hospitalizations in the county are difficult to compare due to a data error from the state health department. County hospitalizations fell inexplicably from 117 on March 17 to 26 on March 18, and the state has not yet explained what happened.

Vaccinations

Nearly 25 percent of Westmoreland County is completely vaccinated, according to data from the state health department. The state reports that 88,931 residents of the county are completely vaccinated (24.4%), another 50,094 who received the first blow.

In Allegheny County, 27.4% of the population (335,163) is fully vaccinated, with 230,355 partially vaccinated.

At the state level, 2,886,162 people have been completely vaccinated, and 1,907,425 are partially vaccinated. These totals do not include people who have been vaccinated at a clinic in Philadelphia, a federal unit, or another state.