In general terms, Lyon County’s weekly COVID-19 traffic remains on par with past weeks.
Public Health reported 42 new cases, down from the 63 cases reported Jan. 25 but in the range of 20-70 new weekly cases that has held firm since September.
Deaths remained steady at 134. Lyon County added five deaths last month.
Since COVID-19 came to the area in March 2020, there have been a lot of concerns about influenza numbers as a comparison. The state of Kansas does not offer a county-by-county breakdown for flu traffic like it does for COVID-19, instead using a percentage of hospital emergency department or urgent care visits statewide as its tracking mechanism. Using that information, flu accounted for less than one percent of all statewide emergency hospital trips for the week ending Jan. 28. It had been as high as almost 8 percent in mid-December.
Click here for the report from the Kansas Syndromic Surveillance Program.
