The number of people in East Cobb ZIP Codes who’ve died from the COVID-19 virus has reached 50, as the total of positive cases approaches 2,000.
The latest figures from Cobb and Georgia public health agencies show a slower increase in those figures in East Cobb than other parts of the county and the state.
Cobb and Douglas Public Health has been compiling confirmed case and death totals by ZIP Code, and here’s the latest for those in East Cobb, which has 1,904 confirmed cases as of Thursday:
- 30067: 570 cases, 10 deaths
- 30062: 553 cases, 12 deaths
- 30066: 447 cases, 11 deaths
- 30068: 300 cases, 17 deaths
- 30075: 34 cases, 0 deaths
Of those 50 deaths in East Cobb, 23 took place in long-term care homes, according to mapping data provided by the Cobb County government GIS unit, which also tracks ZIP Code data.
The spike in Georgia and Cobb cases is occurring the most in younger population brackets—the 20-29 age group in Cobb has the most positive cases, 2,910 in all, out of 9,218 total cases countywide.
Those trends are similar across the state.
Cobb reported a single-day high of 414 new cases on Thursday.
Testing continues to ramp up in Cobb County and around the state. Cobb and Douglas Public Health reports that it has administered 22,866 COVID tests at Jim Miller Park, and that 7.12 percent of those tests have been positive.
That’s lower than a few weeks ago, when the test positivity rate reached around 13 percent for a while; before the spike, that figure was around 5 percent.
The data doesn’t indicate how many positive tests may be for people who are asymptomatic.
Cobb’s case count is fourth-highest in Georgia, trailing Fulton, Gwinnett and DeKalb counties. Cobb’s death count is 274, the second-highest in the state behind Fulton’s 356.
The ZIP Code data doesn’t include the age of death. Across Cobb, 216 of Cobb’s deaths have been people ages 70 and older (87 from ages 70-79, 83 from ages 80-89, and 46 who were age 90 and older), according to Cobb GIS figures (click here to click through the county’s COVID resource hub).
A total of 58 people between ages 18-69 have died; no fatalities have been reported under the age of 18.
The racial breakdowns for fatalities in Cobb are 157 whites, 94 blacks, and 23 others. More women than men have died (139 to 133), and of those who have died, at least 223 have had other underlying health issues. Another 20 did not, and 31 were unknown.
Some additional ZIP Code data regarding the race and gender of confirmed COVID cases is being compiled by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, and you can find a hover map by clicking here.
Another data tracker, Amber Schmidtke of Atlanta, is a public health educator who tracks state and national COVID numbers and analyzes them in a daily e-mail newsletter.
As of 3 p.m. Thursday, there were 156,588 COVID cases in Georgia, an increase of 4,286 from Wednesday, and 3,369 deaths, 25 more than Wednesday. The deaths indicated by the Georgia Department of Public Health are by the day they are reported, not the date of death.
An independent tracking site, covid-georgia.com, has additional information about cases by county and notes trends in cases, deaths, hospitalizations and testing. There are also fatality breakdowns by date of death and the dates deaths are reported.
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