A concluding look at Cobb's COVID data, March 2020-June 2021

Cobb COVID data — *To view more ZIP Code COVID-19 data for Cobb County, **click here**. Source: Cobb and Douglas Public Health.*

Since the COVD-19 emergency began, we’ve been taking occasional looks at case, hospitalization and death data for East Cobb, Cobb County and Georgia.

We’re going to take a deep dive one last time, as all the key metrics continue to plummet to levels close to the start of the pandemic, and as the statewide state of emergency has expired after 16 months.

In East Cobb in particular, here’s how cases and deaths have broken down by ZIP Code in that time, according to Cobb and Douglas Public Health:

30062: 4,696 cases; 62 deaths
30066: 4,520 cases; 60 deaths
30067: 3,899 cases; 41 deaths
30075: 631 cases; 4 deaths
Totals: 16,344 cases; 359 deaths

The data is as of Friday, July 2, and comes from Cobb and Douglas Public Health, and you can check this link for more ZIP Code data across the county.

As of Friday, there have been 62,266 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cobb County since March 2020, and 1,014 COVID-related deaths.

At that same link is more countywide demographic information that we’ve also been highlighting occasionally.

There are various pie charts breaking down cases and deaths by age, sex, race and ethnicity.

Cobb COVID data

As of Friday, the age groups with the highest percentage of cases in Cobb are 30-39 (17 percent), 40-49 (16 percent) and 50-59 (14.3 percent).

School-age children in Cobb (up to age 18) account for a total of 7,108 of all cases, or about 11 percent. The elderly (70 and above) constitute 7.7 of all cases, or 4,792.

But seniors, as the highest risk group, account for the overwhelming majority of the COVID-related deaths, according to CDPH data.

Of Cobb’s 1,104 confirmed deaths, 728 have been 70 or older, or 72 percent of all the fatalities. Another 151 deaths have occurred for people between 60-69, meaning that 86 percent of all the deaths in Cobb have come from the oldest tiers.

Further data tracked by former Cobb Commissioner Bob Ott included comorbidity information. His last update on June 28 indicated that 857 of the deaths included a known comorbidity, 124 did not and 31 were unknown.

The Cobb County GIS office also has been keeping COVID-19 data at its own hub. Note that the number of cases reported there, 80,344, includes both PCR and Antigen tests.

The Georgia Department of Public Health updates its daily report at 3 p.m., and as of Monday showed that there have been 903,073 cases since March 2020, and 18,517 confirmed deaths.

The daily report also includes community spread data, and shows that the transmission rate in Cobb County (PCR tests only) is a 14-day average of 34 cases per 100,000 people.

That’s well below the “high spread” threshold of 100 cases, and many counties in Georgia are reporting few cases at all. Cobb has had only 268 PCR cases over the last two weeks.

Georgia DPH also is tracking vaccines with a specialized dashboard that shows nearly half of all eligible Georgians have received at lease one dose.

Those 4.48 million people are 43 percent of the population; another 3.976 million, or 37 percent, have received either both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

In Cobb, 379,402 people have received at least one dose, or 51 percent of the population. Another 341,077 are fully vaccinated, or 45 percent.

We’re keeping our COVID-19 information page active as needed and will house previous stories there, but this marks the end of occasional COVID data updates.

We’ll keep reporting COVID-related news as it pertains to business recovery, schools, vaccines and other aspects of the COVID response.