As Cobb COVID-19 deaths approach 300, cases exceed 10,000

Cobb COVID onset death — *The rate of COVID-19 deaths by date in Cobb, as well as the 7-day moving average, is shown in a Georgia Department of Public Health graphic. For more **click here**.*

Four more COVID-19 deaths were reported Tuesday in Cobb County, raising the state’s second-highest fatality total close to 300.

On Monday, Cobb’s COVID case totals surpassed 10,000.

Those figures come from the Georgia Department of Public Health, which unveiled some new data options Tuesday on its daily status report, which you can find here.

Viewers can search cases and deaths according to the date they occurred, or “date of onset,” as well as by the date in which they are reported to Georgia DPH, including down to the county level.

Tuesday’s date of onset data was incomplete when the daily status report was updated at 3 p.m.

Cobb now has 292 COVID deaths, trailing only Fulton County, which has 373 deaths.

Cobb’s four new fatalities were among 54 new deaths reported across the state Tuesday. Cobb also reported 213 new COVID confirmed cases, and now has a cumulative total of 10,453. That’s fourth in Georgia behind Fulton, Gwinnett and DeKalb.

A new data feature tracks the growth of cases per county over the last two weeks. Cobb has reported 2,807 new cases in that time by date of report, about a quarter of its overall total.

Georgia’s new COVID case count is 175,052, a jump of 4,293 from Monday. Another 406 new hospitalizations also were included in Tuesday’s statewide figures, including 32 in Cobb County.

In Georgia a total of 1.48 million people have been given viral tests for COVID, with a test positivity rate of 10.8 percent. That does not include antibody tests.

Cobb COVID onset cases — *COVID-19 cases by date in Cobb show a preliminary fall in the current 14-day window. Source: Georgia Department of Public Health. For more **click here**.*

Georgia DPH points out that figures shown over the last two weeks, from the “14 Day Window” line, are preliminary. That means that additional deaths and cases that take place during that period will be updated when reported by county health agencies, hospitals and care homes.

The 54 deaths added Tuesday were reported in last 24-hour period, not by the date of death.

In East Cobb, the latest totals from Cobb and Douglas Public Health show 2,188 cases and 11 deaths as of Monday, up from our last ZIP Code breakdown update last Thursday (July 23), when those numbers were 1,904 cases and 50 deaths:

30067: 655 cases (570), 10 deaths (10)
30062: 625 cases (553), 12 deaths (12)
30066: 516 cases (447), 11 deaths (11)
30068: 349 cases (300), 19 deaths (17)
30075: 43 cases (34), 0 deaths (0)

Here’s the latest briefing from Dr. Janet Memark, director of Cobb and Douglas Public Health: