With Lyon County Public Health’s COVID-19 data releases now back on schedule, new cases are in range with totals from the last several weeks.
Public Health announced 33 new cases Friday, moving the overall total to 4,911 over the past 18 months. Active cases increased from 107 Wednesday to 113 Friday. Of the active cases, 15 are breakthrough cases involving fully-vaccinated residents.
College-age students ages 18-23 are still the range that the most total cases at 792, or about 16 percent of Lyon County’s total. There are now 551 total cases from newborn to age 17. Combined, there are 58 active cases from newborn to age 23 — or better than half the current total.
Deaths remain steady at 88. Active hospitalizations dipped from five to four.
Besides the ongoing data updates from Public Health, the long-awaited dashboard from Newman Regional Health was unveiled Friday. Newman Regional Health’s data set currently involves the average daily number of hospitalizations, available bed space, COVID positives and their hospital locations, average wait for patient transfers and a number of hospitalized patients.
Newman Regional Health is currently averaging 23 daily hospitalizations, with 2 in ICU beds — and a daily average of two beds available. Most of the hospital’s current COVID cases, 14 or almost 74 percent, have come through ExpressCare, with two each from the emergency room and inpatient treatment and one from intensive care. The wait time for patient transfers ranges from 23 minutes to over 2.5 days. Of Newman Regional Health’s hospitalized COVID patients between July 7 and Sept. 7, 25 — or better than 96 percent — were unvaccinated.
Newman Regional Health is the second area hospital to release its COVID-19 data, following Coffey Medical System. Both are planning weekly releases. Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka and Morris County Hospital in Council Grove have not announced plans for these specialized data sets, although they are becoming more common across Kansas as the pandemic continues.
