COVID-19 2020-21 Updates
The link below shows cases attributed to any school function or property within Berrien County School Districts.
BCHD/Berrien RESA COVID-19 Dashboard Information
The chart below reflects COVID-19 information based on cases within the instructional setting.
Update 10/20/2020
Berrien County COVID-19 Data
- Last week 114 new COVID-19 cases were detected. This week 180 New COVID-19 case were detected, no mass testing has been conducted at Cook Nuclear plant.
- Over the last week, Berrien County has seen an average of 25.7 new cases per day. Last week it was 16.2.
- Currently there are 16 people in the hospital who have tested positive for COVID-19 and our hospital system is not overwhelmed. 13 are being treated for COVID-19. This is an increase over last week.
- The COVID-19 death surveillance number have been updated, we have a total of 76 deaths. Death trends remain consistent with what has been observed over the last couple of months.
- This past week our average new case rate is calculated to be 16.7 cases per 100,000 residents or 166.9 Cases per 1 million residents.
- 7 day % positivity = 5.7%
- 14 day % positivity = 4.2%
- 28 day % positivity = 3.6%
- Strong – Test turnaround times are quick, resources are available for testing, PPE is in supply, rooms are available. Many new establishments that are not properly reporting to the Health Department.
- Public health continues case investigation for all residents who are confirmed positive or identified as a probable case. Contact tracing continues for all person with exposure to a person known to have COVID-19.
- Health department staff have been working closely with schools and parents to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 in school populations.
- There have been relatively few positive cases in school students or staff. Among persons being excluded from schools, the vast majority have had close contact to a positive case outside of school.
- Schools
- Public health is working tirelessly to keep schools in person and safe. Many schools have been open for about 7 weeks now and BCHD has been closely working with them. As of 10/15/20, there have been 48 positive COVID-19 cases associated with students or staff and only one instance where COVID-19 is likely to have been spread in the school setting. Of the roughly 25,000 students and teachers in Berrien schools, 453 have been recommended for isolation or quarantine during the 2020-21 school year. This represents 82 staff members and 371 students.
- Among people who attend or work at a school, there are currently 13 cases in isolation 193 people in quarantine. The majority of these individuals in isolation did not have an exposure to COVID-19 at school. Many of the exposures happened outside of school.
A. The trend of Covid-19 (COVID) cases or positive tests, hospitalizations due to COVID; and the number of deaths resulting from COVID in the past 14-day period.
B. COVID cases for each day for every 1 million people.
C. The percentage of positive COVID tests over a four-week period.
D. Health care capacity strength.
E. Testing, tracing and containment infrastructure with regard to COVID.
Update 10/16/2020