ELIZABETHTOWN — Hospitalizations are down to three, active cases to 61, and there’s again no change among two facilities that have been on the outbreaks and clusters reports for weeks.
In updates Tuesday from the state Department of Health and Human Services, and the Bladen County Health Department, the county logged six recoveries and four new cases. Since the pandemic began, Bladen has had 41 deaths, 3,070 cases and 2,968 recoveries.
In the state report for outbreaks and clusters:
• Outbreaks: Elizabethtown Health and Rehab, one resident death, five resident cases, 16 staff cases; Bladen County Detention Center, eight inmates, seven staff.
• Clusters: none.
The state defines outbreaks as two or more cases at congregate living settings, and clusters as five or more at child care facilities or schools.
Elizabethtown Health and Rehab was listed last fall, dropped off, then came back on the list Dec. 4. The jail showed up in the aggregate totals on Feb. 10 and was identified by name in the Feb. 12 report.
Vaccination series are complete for 13.9 percent of the county and 13.1 percent of the state, DHHS says. In the county, there are 4,564 people fully vaccinated, and 7,441 partially vaccinated. Statewide, there are 1,373,319 people fully vaccinated and 2,202,935 partially vaccinated.
The DHHS postal ZIP code report lists 1,037 cases in Elizabethtown and White Lake since the pandemic began; 740 in Bladenboro; 406 in Clarkton; 337 in East Arcadia; 162 in White Oak; 158 in Tar Heel; 84 in Council; and 61 in Kelly.
There are 20 fatalities listed for the ZIP in Elizabethtown and White Lake. There have been eight in Bladenboro; five in East Arcadia; four in Clarkton; two each in Council and White Oak; and one each in Tar Heel and Kelly. The Dublin ZIP code disappeared from the state report on Jan. 29.
Tuesday’s totals from the state included:
• 11,854 deaths, up 18 from Monday’s noon report.
• 899,164 cases, up 1,062.
• 956 hospitalized, up 32.
• 11,057,814 tests, up 15,613.
For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health conditions, the highly contagious virus can cause severe symptoms and be fatal.
In Bladen County, the ages 25-49 category has had 37 percent of the cases, 50-64 has 22 percent, 18-24 has 12 percent, 17-and-under has 14 percent, 65-74 has 11 percent and 75-or-older has 5 percent. Ages for 22 of 41 deaths are suppressed; six are ages 75-and-older, six are ages 65-74, five are ages 50-64, and two are ages 25-49.
Statewide, the ages 25-49 category has had 39 percent of the cases, 50-64 has 20 percent, 18-24 has 14 percent, 17-and-under has 12 percent, 65-74 has 8 percent and 75-or-older has 7 percent. Of the fatalities, ages 75-and-older has made up 60 percent, 65-74 has 24 percent, 50-64 has 13 percent and 25-49 has 3 percent.
In adjacent counties to Bladen, there have been 822 deaths and 59,269 cases. Cumberland has 289 deaths and 25,372 cases; Robeson has 221 deaths and 15,596 cases; Columbus has 147 deaths and 6,073 cases; Sampson has 97 deaths and 7,274 cases; and Pender has 68 deaths and 4,954 cases.
Congregate living settings in North Carolina have totaled 5,270 deaths and 69,681 positive cases. Outbreaks have been identified and are active at 176 nursing homes, 115 residential care facilities, 64 correctional institutions and five other facilities. Of those, nine are in Cumberland, eight in Robeson, five in Pender, three each in Sampson and Columbus, and two in Bladen.
Robeson has four clusters, Cumberland has two, and Columbus has one.
With 97 percent of the state’s hospitals reporting, DHHS says there is availability of 75 percent of the ventilators, 27 percent of the intensive care unit beds and 27 percent of all hospital beds.
In the personal protective equipment category, medical KN95 respirators are down to 57 days supply. All other categories are at least four months.
A combined 13 metropolitan counties have the state’s three largest cities and account for 37.7 percent of the deaths (4,472) and 46.1 percent of the cases (414,437).
In the Charlotte area, Mecklenburg County has 901 deaths and 100,837 positive cases, Gaston County has 399 deaths and 24,519 cases, Rowan County has 292 deaths and 15,457 cases, Cabarrus County has 239 deaths and 19,351 cases, and Union County has 206 deaths and 21,854 cases — a total of 2,037 deaths and 182,018 cases.
In and near the Triangle area, Wake County has 588 deaths and 78,745 cases, Durham County has 212 deaths and 22,659 cases, Johnston County has 202 deaths and 19,029 cases, and Orange County has 99 deaths and 7,942 cases — a total of 1,101 deaths and 128,375 cases.
In the interior of the 12-county Piedmont Triad, Guilford County has 592 deaths and 41,928 cases, Forsyth County has 357 deaths and 32,987 cases, Randolph County has 208 deaths and 14,024 cases, and Davidson County has 177 deaths and 15,105 cases — a total of 1,334 deaths and 104,044 cases.
According to the coronavirus tracker of Johns Hopkins University, available on BladenJournal.com, more than 29.8 million confirmed cases and 543,000 deaths are counted in the U.S. The second-highest case total is in Brazil, with more than 12 million.
There have been more than 123.9 million cases worldwide, with more than 2.7 million deaths.
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