Since there’s been a bit of a bump in COVID-19 cases in Georgia, we’re taking a second look this week at how that breaks down in Cobb County and East Cobb in particular.
On Monday, we posted with an update showing 608 positive tests (cumulative) in the five ZIP codes in East Cobb.
As of Friday afternoon, that number had grown to 650, according to figures posted by Cobb and Douglas Public Health.
Here’s a link to a hover map (screenshot above) that tracks the number of cases by each ZIP Code and contains related data.
The biggest jump in East Cobb took place in 30067, which had 174 cases at the start of the week, and now has a reported 192 cases. The biggest number in the county remains 30060, which has 430 positive cases, followed by 30127 (337) and 30008 (309).
The figures below show the number of cases in East Cobb, with Friday’s figures next to the ZIP Code, and Monday’s totals in parenthesis:
- 30067: 192 (174)
- 30062: 180 (172)
- 30066: 150 (140)
- 30068: 113 (109)
- 30075: 15 (13)
The totals are compiled by the Georgia Department of Public Health, State Electronic Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (SENDSS) but do not include the number of deaths by ZIP Code.
Across Cobb County there have been 3,522 confirmed cases of COVID-19 overall, 215 total deaths and 752 hospitalizations.
Those are among the highest figures in the state for any county, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health, which updates figures daily at 3 p.m.
The rate of testing also has gone up significantly in Georgia, with 586,426 viral tests (to determine whether someone’s infected) and 110,825 antibody tests.
Georgia DPH had been combining them but now lists them separately.
The number of positive viral tests now stands at 50,251 for an infection rate of 8.6 percent. A total of 2,418 Georgians have died due to COVID-19. In Cobb County, the test positivity rate is 5.26 percent.
The state data also breaks down cases and deaths by race, sex and ethnicity.
For more data from Cobb and Douglas Public Health, click here.
Cobb government has a COVID-19 dashboard using data from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
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Recently when I do grocery shopping. I saw less and less people in the stores wearing masks. My family members always wear masks when we are in public places like the stores and doctors’ offices and hospitals. Every level of government and employers should require people to wear masks when in public places. It is the easiest way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Wendy, thanks for your hard work to get us information on Covid-19. Can you use your contacts to help provide more context on what is actually driving the increase in cases reported? Is it primarily because they are doing more testing and therefore uncovering more cases. Or is there now a higher rate of infection among those being tested?
It makes a big difference to know if there is truly another wave underway, or if the increase in cases is primarily due to more people being tested.