Centre County registered two new COVID-19 deaths and 65 new cases of the virus on Saturday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
The county has had 250 deaths attributed to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, including six reported this month.
In addition to the new cases, DOH added 425 older reinfection cases to Centre County’s total.
The national case definition was revised and is being implemented in Pennsylvania this week. Under the new national definition, an individual who tests positive more than once at least 90 days apart is counted more than once. Prior to the definition update, Pennsylvania was reporting positive individuals only once.
Centre County’s case total now stands at 21,679 (19,520 confirmed and 2,159 probable).
Pennsylvania added 5,426 new positives and DOH reported 15,800 older reinfection cases for an overall statewide total of 1,640,096.
With 80 new COVID-19 deaths identified by the Pennsylvania death registry, the statewide total is now 32,359.
Hospitalizations
According to the DOH hospital preparedness dashboard, 26 COVID-19 inpatients are hospitalized in Centre County, unchanged from Friday, with three in intensive care and three on ventilators [+1].
For the week of Nov. 5-Nov. 11, Centre County had 32 average daily COVID hospitalizations, down from 35.6 the previous seven days, according to the updated Department of Health early warning monitoring dashboard.
Pennsylvania has 2,649 COVID-19 inpatients, an increase of 40 since Friday, with 609 in intensive care [+12] and 326 on ventilators [-11].
Statewide there were 2,567.7 average daily COVID hospitalizations from Nov. 5 to 11, down from 2,651.6 the prior week.
An estimated 92% of COVID-19 patients in the state have recovered, according to a DOH calculation that considers a case as recovered if it has not been reported as a death and it is more than 30 days past the date of the first positive test or onset of symptoms.
Positivity rate
Centre County’s PCR testing positivity rate for the week of Nov. 5-11 was 9.4%, up from 7.1% the previous seven days, according to the monitoring dashboard. The rate was 13th lowest among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.
The county had 279 new cases for that seven-day period, 59 more than the prior week.
The statewide positivity rate was 10.3%, up from 9.3% the previous seven days. The commonwealth had 24,229 new positives between Nov. 5-11, 2,603 more than the prior week.
Cases Among Children
For the 2021-2022 school year, DOH is providing weekly updated case counts for two age groups: 0-4 capturing preschool and daycare age children and 5-18 capturing kindergarten through high school age children. The case counts do not necessarily represent exposure in school or daycare settings and the location of exposure cannot be determined in most cases.
For the week of Nov. 3-9, there were five new cases among children in the 0-4 age group and 47 in the 5-18 age group in Centre County. About 25% of all cases in Centre County that week were among children 0-18.
Since Aug. 16, there have been 830 cases among individuals between the ages of 0 and 18 in Centre County — 127 between the ages of 0-4 and 703 between the ages of 5 and 18 — representing about 22% of all cases during that time.
Transmission level
All 67 of Pennsylvania’s counties are at the highest level for community transmission of COVID-19 on the Centers for Disease Control scale, according to the latest county-level data update on Saturday.
Transmission levels are based on positivity rate and cases per 100,000 people for the previous seven days. At the substantial and high levels, CDC guidance recommends all people, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks in public indoor settings.
Vaccinations
As of Saturday morning, 85,525 people in Centre County are fully vaccinated [+152 since DOH’s last update on Thursday] and 9,942 are partially covered [+601]. Third doses have been administered to 16,209 county residents [+795].
Among the county’s entire population, 68.9% have received at least one dose and 55.5% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Among adult residents, 76% have received at least one dose and 61.7% are fully vaccinated.
Statewide, 72.8% of adults and 61.4% of the total population are fully vaccinated. Pennsylvania is fifth in the nation for total doses administered, according the CDC.
Vaccination appointments through Centre Volunteers in Medicine, Mount Nittany Health and through other pharmacies and providers listed at vaccines.gov.
Centre County’s cases by zip code:
*Note: Changes are in brackets and include the addition of older reinfection cases.
Specific numbers for zip codes with 1-4 cases are redacted by the health department. Cases are not always immediately assigned zip codes.
16801 (State College): 6,474 confirmed [+109], 578 probable [+47]
16823 (Bellefonte and Pleasant Gap): 3,615 confirmed [+67], 365 probable [+21]
16803 (State College): 1,825 confirmed [+20], 281 probable [+13]
16802 (University Park): 1,597 confirmed [+41], 93 probable [+13]
16866 (Philipsburg): 1,185 confirmed [+27], 196 probable [+10]
16870 (Port Matilda): 710 confirmed [+6], 103 probable
16841 (Howard): 632 confirmed [+6], 77 probable [+4]
16828 (Centre Hall): 444 confirmed [+8], 51 probable [+2]
16875 (Spring Mills): 438 confirmed [+10], 55 probable
16827 (Boalsburg): 417 confirmed [+5], 59 probable [+3]
16845 (Karthaus): 330 confirmed [+7], 21 probable [+1]
16844 (Julian): 324 confirmed [+7], 39 probable [+4]
16853 (Milesburg): 176 confirmed [+4], 12 probable
16877 (Warrior’s Mark): 175 confirmed [+2], 22 probable [+1]
16874 (Snow Shoe): 158 confirmed [+5], 27 probable [+2]
16826 (Blanchard): 137 confirmed [+2], 13 probable
16865 (Pennsylvania Furnace): 117 confirmed, 12 probable [+1]
16829 (Clarence): 114 confirmed [+1], 23 probable
16854 (Millheim): 108 confirmed [+2], 9 probable
16820 (Aaronsburg): 107 confirmed [+3], 24 probable [+3]
16872 (Rebersburg): 95 confirmed, 11 probable
16851 (Lemont): 84 confirmed [-1], 16 probable [+1]
16859 (Moshannon): 60 confirmed [+1], 5 probable
16832 (Coburn): 58 confirmed [+4], 5 probable
16677 (Sandy Ridge): 46 confirmed, 1-4 probable
16868 (Pine Grove Mills): 41 confirmed [+1], 6 probable
16835 (Fleming): 33 confirmed, 7 probable
16852 (Madisonburg): 32 confirmed, 5 probable
16856 (Mingoville): 32 confirmed [+1], 8 probable
16882 (Woodward): 19 confirmed, 1-4 confirmed
16863 (Orviston): 14 confirmed
16804 (State College): 13 confirmed [+1]
Cases among Centre County’s bordering counties (including reinfections)
Blair: 19,054 [+355]
Clearfield: 11,964 [+187]
Union: 7,814 [+104]
Mifflin: 7,659 [+112]
Huntingdon: 7,231 [+183]
Clinton: 5,540 [+112]
