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Daily Covid Updates, Aug 18 | Decatur, IL | Macon County

Get your daily update of COVID case numbers for Macon County, Illinois

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Written Reports

Daily Overview

IDPH Daily Reports for Macon County:

  • August 25:
    • New: +88 cases, +491 tests, 1 deaths, 17.923% tests positive
    • Totals +12,409 cases, 219,190 tests, 218 deaths
  • August 24:
    • New: +35 cases, +260 tests, 0 deaths, 13.462% tests positive
    • Totals +12,321 cases, 218,699 tests, 217 deaths

CDC Daily Reports for Macon County:

  • Data as of August 24th at 6:00am ET: (retrieved from CDC on August 25th)
    • 51,896 ppl w/ at least one vaccine dose (49.9%)
    • 40,682 fully vaccinated (39.1%)
    • In 7 days:
      • 480 cases (Aug 17-23)
      • 461.5 cases per 100k ppl (Aug 17-23)
      • 8.69% positivity rate (Aug 15-21)
      • 26 new hospital admissions (Aug 16-22)
      • 33.77% of ICU beds in use by COVID patients (Aug 16-22)

MCHD Weekly Reports:

  • August 20:
    • New: 39 hospitalizations, 483 cases, 2 deaths
    • Current: 841 people in home isolation
    • Totals +12,164 cases, 211 deaths
  • August 13:
    • New: 21 hospitalizations, 280 cases, 0 deaths
    • Current: 489 people in home isolation
    • Totals +11,681 cases, 209 deaths
    • After this release, MCHD will resume daily updates

Variant Updates

Get full variant reports

Not all tests are sequenced for variant strains, so actual counts are likely higher.

  • August: +2 Delta. The 1 AY.3 variant case is now included in total Delta counts, instead of being tracked separately.
  • August 6th: +6 Delta, +1 AY.3 (B.1.617.2.3)
  • July 30th: +5 Delta,
  • July 27th: +2 UK, +4 Delta, +3 Brazil/Gamma
  • July 9th: 1 Delta total

Illinois Totals

Updated on August 4th, 2021 using IDPH statistics page

  • 27,056,446 total tests performed
  • 1,403,265 total confirmed cases
  • 23,476 deaths
  • Overall death rate of 1.67%: 23,476 / 1,403,265 = 0.0167295557 ... 0.01672 * 100 = 1.672%
  • Additional 2,484 deaths that are probably caused by COVID, but not confirmed
    • Death rate if including these would be: (23,476 + 2,484) / 1,403,265 = 0.0184997132 or 1.849% death rate

Info I may want to add

  • Age demographics
    • Not sure how to present this data & I lack a procedure for collecting this data (Even though I think I have a link somewhere to get to it)
  • What % of hospitalizations / cases / deaths are vaccinated vs unvaccinated people?
    • I don't know how/where to get this data. Contact me (info above) if you do
  • Got a suggestion? See my fb & twitter info above & let me know.

Sources

Disclaimers about the data

IDPH and Macon County

IDPH and Macon County data have minor discrepancies. For example, on July 30th, MCHD Reported 11,232 cases, and 209 deaths. But IDPH Reports 11,214 cases, and 215 deaths. On July 31, IDPH reports 11,234 cases.

Why? I haven't had a chance to look into it yet. Though:

  • IDPH reports "Data is Provisional and subject to change. Data presented is reported as of [date that you get the data]".
  • I read in a previous MCHD report that some cases are transferred to different counties than the county the test was performed in. This may be part of it.
  • I suspect the reporting time is different.

IDPH and CDC

The CDC data for Macon County shows some discrepancies The "County level time series data from the CDC" shows weekly average of new cases being much lower than IDPH data & county data. However, the trend is the same. From June until July 21st, the CDC's weekly average is very low (less than 5 cases per week). Since July 23, this has spiked greatly to 8 cases per week, then to a 16 case-per-week average as of August 2nd.

But then the "County Level Latest Data" shows case rate / 100k in the last 7 days being 112.49 (as of Aug 3 @ 1:19pm). So the "time series data" may be presented oddly, since the full week count does appear to be inline with IDPH. I counted the "Cases (weekly avg)" for each day July 27th - Aug 3, and it adds up to about 97. Which is closer to the 112.49 reported for the case rate per 100k.

Corrections/Notices about the data

  • Changed August third test count from 701 to 290. The provisional number was higher when I viewed the data on August 4th than when I viewed it on August 5th
  • The CDC data has 'Last 7 days'. I don't know if I missed it on the website, or if they just added it. But when I checked today, August 11th, the CDC shows the date range for each of those specific "last 7 days" metrics I reported. Previously, I inferred from the user interface that if the slider goes til August 9th, then the period is Aug 2 - Aug 9 for all the metrics on the left-hand side of that chart. I guess I was wrong. As of Aug 10th data, I'm noting the specific 7-day period. I may change some formatting or something to better accomadate this, but I don't know. I doubt I will correct any of the previous readings, as it's not especially consequential whether the hospital numbers (or whatever) are off by a day or two. The overall data trend remains the same.
  • For August 9th & August 10th CDC data, I had written "retrieved on August 9th" and on "August 10th", respectively. I'm confident I retrieved Aug 9 data on Aug 10th & Aug 10th data on Aug 11th & have updated the data accordingly.

How I do the Daily Update

I'm now getting daily updates from CDC and IDPH, and weekly from Macon County Health Dept

  1. Get IDPH data. I download the latest Macon County data from http://dph.illinois.gov/content/covid-19-county-cases-tests-and-deaths-day
  2. I log the totals for yesterday & check the day prior for accuracy. I update the the covid main page.
  3. Get the CDC data from https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view
    • Table just below the map lists "People Vaccinated", so I log # w/ at least one dose & # fully vaccinated & percentages
    • The next table has "7 Day Moving Averages" & I log # of cases, # of hospital admissions, % of ICU beds in use by covid patients, test positivity rate, & # cases per 100k people
    • At the bottom, there are three expandable "County Level ___ Data ...". I expand those & download their data, just to have on-hand.
  4. I log the data on this 'daily' page both in the running log of CDC data & at the top
  5. I do the MCHD data (below)
  6. I proof read & update the site
  7. I go to the Facebook Debugger & have it "Scrape Again". Then the Twitter Cards Validator
  8. I post to Facebook @LoveDecatur and Twitter @LoveDecaturIL

Newly adding Macon County Health Department Data

MCHD does not do daily updates any more, but I check their website news releases and their facebook page anyway. Lately, they have Friday releases by 5pm.
I then add whatever data above that is relevant.
I then add variant data to my variants page if there are new variant reports.