The Cole County Health Department reported four new coronavirus cases on Monday.
According to the dashboard update, there are 17,007 residential cases and 330 long-term care facility resident cases. That is 17,337 total cases in the county since March 2020.
The county has reported 199 coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began.
Cole County ranks 41st in the state for counties with the most coronavirus cases per 100,000 in the past week. Cases are down 26.3% when comparing last week to the prior week. The county has reported a 4% positivity test rate, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
The Missouri coronavirus vaccine dashboard reports about 55.5% of the county have initiated their first dose of the vaccine and 51.7% of the county’s population have been fully vaccinated.
The Jefferson City School District reported on no new coronavirus case in a student or staff member on Sunday.
The district is reporting three active cases in a student.
State of Missouri COVID hospitalizations drop by 48%
The state of Missouri reported 653 new and probable coronavirus cases from Monday.
The state health department is reporting a 186 seven-day coronavirus case average (1,301 confirmed cases from the previous week of reporting). The daily average looks at the last seven days and doesn’t account for the past three days.
The dashboard reported 497 new coronavirus cases through PCR testing and another 156 probable cases identified in antigen testing from Thursday, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services coronavirus dashboard. Missouri has now reported 1,129,946 confirmed cases for the pandemic and more than 277,267 probable cases.
The state added five deaths for 15,952 total and no new probable deaths were removed for 3,789.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are also trending down, with the state reporting 19% of total inpatient capacity and 23% of ICU capacity remaining. Those numbers are at 18% and 31% in Central Missouri, respectively. The state is reporting 365 patient hospitalizations, a drop of 48% from Friday when 752 hospitalizations were reported. There are currently 81 patients in Missouri ICUs. The hospital status for all of Missouri is on a three-day delay, the latest information is from Friday.
Missouri’s new cases are down 12.7% over the past week, the state reports, as recent cases go down nationwide.
The rate of positive tests is 3% for the last week. A higher positivity rate suggests higher transmission and that there are likely more people with coronavirus in the community who haven’t been tested yet.
Montgomery (1), Howard (4), Audrain (9), Maries (27), Osage (31), Boone (33), Callaway (36) and Pettis (39) counties are all in the top 40 Missouri counties in cases per capita over the last week, according to state statistics.
The state reports that 8.08% (.01 change for Monday) of vaccinated Missourians have developed COVID-19 infections. The state is reporting 279,988 breakthrough cases out of 3,465,579 fully vaccinated people. The state has reported 1,823 breakthrough deaths.
Experts continue to tout vaccination as the best tool to fight the wave of new cases.
The state reported Monday that 56.5% of Missouri residents are fully vaccinated.
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