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COVID-19 UPDATES: Local and State as of April 27, 2020
Clay County Health Department officials shared some “good news” Monday, confirming COVID-19 cases have remained steady at 19 for a week, with 202 residents tested and one death reported.
The good news continued as Public Health Nurse Kim Hyatt said the remaining 18 cases are recovering.
“No one is currently hospitalized,” said Hyatt, who also confirmed most of the patients reported mild symptoms, and a few didn’t even realize they were sick. “Eleven patients have recovered so far with seven currently in self-isolation recovering at home,”
Five confirmed COVID-19 patients experiencing high fevers, breathing issues and shortness of breath were hospitalized during their illness, with three hospitalized less than three days, one patient spent two weeks hospitalized while the patient who died from COVID-19 spent approximately three weeks in the hospital.
Hyatt said the primary symptoms reported by patients ill with COVID-19 was fever, the loss of taste and smell, and no energy or appetite.
Although not much information is available at this time to track where a patient contracted the COVID-19 virus, the health department confirms most of the Clay County cases were reported by people who worked outside of the area or related and in close contact with someone else diagnosed with COVID-19.
Further details about patients are not being released due to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
The Indiana State Department of Health reported the highest surge of COVID-19 cases on Monday. So far, 15,961 positive cases have been reported among the 6.7 million residents in Indiana, with 84,478 residents tested, and the highest amount of deaths reported since the outbreak began in March, at 844. The state is also providing new information regarding probable deaths caused by COVID-19.
These deaths, 88 as of Monday, April 27, are those for which a physician listed COVID-19 as a contributing cause based on X-rays, scans, and other clinical symptoms but for which no positive test is on record.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov/cornavirus) listed the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States over a million with more than 56,000 deaths as of April 27.
According to the World Health Organization, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to more than 200 countries and territories around the world, with more than 3,048,420 confirmed cases and a death toll of more than 210,539, with the numbers changing daily.
