10/26/22 CRAWFORD CO PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE
COVID, RSV, FLU, BREAST CANCER AWARENESS What the Winter May Bring. AND A Thanksgiving Turkey Shortage?
END OF SEASON ZINNIA/MKR
NEWS:
NOTE: The PA DOH has updated the COVID 14 Day Hospitalization Moving Averages Graphs after a 4 month hiatus !! See below.
NPR: Children's hospitals grapple with a nationwide surge in RSV infections NOTE: LOCAL RSV data below.
NPR: Omicron keeps finding new evolutionary tricks to outsmart our immunity
Jetelina: State of Affairs 10/16/22 Triple Threat
Dawson: Mammograms & Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Washington Post: Biden officials worry pandemic exhaustion could lead to bad covid winter
Washington Post: Thanksgiving Turkey Shortage
COVID/SARS-COV-2:
10/26/22
Crawford County Weekly
New PCR Cases: 117 (down 19 from last week; averaging 17 PCR positives per day)
Total: 23,486
DEATHS: DoH 344 (+1)
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Crawford County DoH Hospital Preparedness Dashboard Page Summary ~
Hospitalized: 20
MMC (AM Census): 19
TAH (AM Census): 1
ICU: 2
COVID Ventilator: 1
Non-COVID Ventilator: 4
Number of COVID-19 Patients Hospitalized (Moving Average Past 14 days): 15.2
Number of COVID-19 Patients on Ventilators (Moving Average Past 14 days): 1.4
Hospital In-house Positivity:
Testing for the week of 10/16 to 10/22:
MMC: 507 tests. 91 positive. 17.9% positivity
TAH: 153 tests. 18 positive. 11.7% positivity
Collectively: 660 tests. 109 positive. 16.5% positivity
Erie County Wastewater Analysis:
NO Update as of publication.
CDC COVID-19 Integrated County View:
NOTE: No Update as of publication. Check the link Friday.
Allegheny College Case Dashboard 10/ 25 /22 :
Student Active Cases: 0
Employee Active Cases: 2
Allegheny Provided Isolation Housing: 0
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NYTIMES One Week Average per Capita by County
CC: 20
Erie: 9.3
Mercer: 19
Venango: 18
Warren: 25
Allegheny: 12 (NOTE: Note that Allegheny Co has 4x the population of CC but Allegheny’s per Capita case count is less than Crawford’s.)
RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS (RSV):
MMC PEDS RSV Inpatient Today (10/26/22): 2
What is RSV? Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus, or RSV, is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms. Most people recover in a week or two, but RSV can be serious, especially for infants and older adults. RSV is the most common cause of bronchiolitis (inflammation of the small airways in the lung) and pneumonia (infection of the lungs) in children younger than 1 year of age in the United States. ~CDC
INFLUENZA:
PA DoH 2021/2022 Influenza Season Data, Week 42, 10/22/22: :
Crawford County: Type A: 7 Type B: none
NOTE: This pie chart represents ALL Type A influenza (the green slice is Type A not furthered classified.)
CDC FLUVIEW 10/15/22: (Last week’s map)