1,000 New Cases of COVID-19 & 19 Deaths 10/26/2020

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COVID-19 in Mississippi

New Cases and Deaths as of October 26

County COVID-19 Data

Race and Ethnicity

• Total COVID-19 cases and deaths by county, race and ethnicity PDF
  Current and past data tables, updated daily

Data Snapshots for Individual Counties

• Weekly COVID-19 snapshots for each Mississippi county

High Cases and Incidence

• Mississippi counties ranked by weekly cases and incidence

Cumulative Cases and Deaths by County

Totals of all reported COVID-19 cases for 2020, including those in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

The numbers in this table are provisional. County case numbers and deaths may change as investigation finds new or additional information. The data provided below is the most current available.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	1094	45	64	14
Alcorn	1045	12	25	2
Amite	428	13	15	2
Attala	805	27	91	20
Benton	367	10	37	5
Bolivar	2039	79	219	30
Calhoun	633	13	25	4
Carroll	503	12	45	9
Chickasaw	867	27	47	14
Choctaw	209	6	1	0
Claiborne	539	16	43	9
Clarke	770	53	93	27
Clay	710	22	19	3
Coahoma	1258	37	89	7
Copiah	1393	36	72	7
Covington	988	29	58	12
De Soto	7285	80	80	16
Forrest	3118	78	176	41
Franklin	251	3	4	1
George	1017	19	36	6
Greene	481	18	40	6
Grenada	1229	39	113	21
Hancock	868	28	48	6
Harrison	5491	85	275	33
Hinds	8050	179	470	79
Holmes	1150	60	102	20
Humphreys	451	17	21	6
Issaquena	107	4	0	0
Itawamba	1172	26	87	17
Jackson	4800	88	102	8
Jasper	696	17	1	0
Jefferson	279	10	13	3
Jefferson Davis	421	12	8	1
Jones	2966	84	186	38
Kemper	333	15	41	9
Lafayette	2550	43	124	29
Lamar	2319	40	40	11
Lauderdale	2546	135	261	74
Lawrence	544	14	26	2
Leake	1163	42	42	7
Lee	3665	82	181	37
Leflore	1706	88	193	47
Lincoln	1433	59	162	35
Lowndes	1819	62	102	33
Madison	3861	94	238	45
Marion	959	43	92	14
Marshall	1484	30	54	12
Monroe	1538	73	170	52
Montgomery	558	23	52	9
Neshoba	1868	111	130	39
Newton	872	27	40	9
Noxubee	602	17	20	4
Oktibbeha	2048	55	193	31
Panola	1720	40	60	8
Pearl River	1163	60	94	23
Perry	524	23	20	7
Pike	1406	56	98	27
Pontotoc	1506	20	18	2
Prentiss	1092	20	48	3
Quitman	423	6	0	0
Rankin	4046	86	181	23
Scott	1270	29	21	3
Sharkey	287	15	43	8
Simpson	1231	49	117	19
Smith	602	16	54	8
Stone	491	14	55	9
Sunflower	1643	49	83	14
Tallahatchie	855	26	29	7
Tate	1210	39	53	13
Tippah	949	24	61	1
Tishomingo	827	41	96	26
Tunica	537	17	15	2
Union	1258	25	46	11
Walthall	644	27	67	13
Warren	1561	56	125	26
Washington	2627	100	176	38
Wayne	1027	22	59	10
Webster	378	13	52	11
Wilkinson	342	21	20	5
Winston	852	21	43	11
Yalobusha	564	16	71	8
Yazoo	1234	34	95	13
Total	117,617	3,302	6,766	1,315

Case Classifications

Mississippi investigates and reports both probable and confirmed cases and deaths according to the CSTE case definition.

	Confirmed	Probable	Total
Cases	103,214	14,403	117,617
Deaths	2,979	323	3,302

Confirmed cases and deaths are generally determined by positive PCR tests, which detect the presence of ongoing coronavirus infection.

Probable cases are those who test positive by other testing methods such as antibody or antigen, and have recent symptoms consistent with COVID-19, indicating a recent infection.

Probable deaths are those individuals with a designation of COVID-19 as a cause of death on the death certificate, but where no confirmatory testing was performed.

Deaths from COVID-19 and Other Causes

This table of death counts compares COVID-19 deaths in Mississippi by week with deaths from other major causes, including contributing and underlying causes.

• Mississippi Provisional Death Counts by Week
  Updated weekly

K-12 School Report

Mississippi K-12 schools make weekly reports of cases among students, teachers and staff, number of outbreaks, and teachers and students under quarantine as a result of COVID-19 exposure. An outbreak in a school setting is defined as 3 or more individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the same group within a 14-day period.

Note: These cases have been directly reported to MSDH by each school, and may not yet have appeared in our state and county totals of cases reported by laboratories.

• K-12 reports of COVID-19 school cases, outbreaks and exposure
  Updated weekly

Long-Term Care Facility Cases and Outbreaks

Long-term care (LTC) facilities like nursing homes are considered high risk locations because their residents are older or in poor health. A single confirmed COVID-19 infection in an LTC facility resident, or more than one infection in employees or staff in a 14-day period constitutes an outbreak. Residential care facilities also represent group living facilities where COVID-19 can be easily spread. We investigate residents, staff and close contacts of infected individuals for possible exposure.

These outbreak figures are reported directly to MSDH by the facility. Many of the cases and deaths reported by facilities may not yet be included in our totals of lab-reported cases.

• Mississippi COVID-19 cases and deaths in long-term care facilities PDF
  Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, personal care homes, assisted living homes, and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disability (ICF-IID)
• Mississippi COVID-19 cases and deaths in residential care facilities PDF
  Residential care facilities include psychiatric or chemical dependency residential treatment centers and long-term acute care facilities.

Ongoing Outbreaks in Nursing Homes

Because nursing homes report COVID-19 data directly to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), we have replaced our usual long-term care facility report with the most recent CMS nursing home data, avoiding duplicate reporting requirements for these facilities.

Data such as illness in residents and staff, deaths in residents, as well as a number of other data elements are now publicly available on the CMS website. MSDH is providing the following links to view this data, which is reported directly by the Nursing Homes and is updated daily.

Note: Cases and deaths listed on the CMS website may not have appeared yet in our county totals, which are based on reports from testing laboratories.

• Search for nursing home COVID-19 data
• About the CMS COVID-19 dataset
• CMS state and national COVID-19 nursing home data

Mississippi COVID-19 Data Charts and Map

All data reports below are updated as they become available.

Hospitalizations and Bed Availability

• Interactive chart of hospitalizations by date
• Interactive chart of local and state hospital bed availability

Daily Statewide Data Charts

Our state case map and other data charts are also available in interactive form.

• View interactive map
• View interactive epidemiological trend and syndromic surveillance

The charts below are based on available data at the time of publication. Charts do not include cases where insufficient details of the case are known.

Note: Values up to two weeks in the past on the chart of Cases by Date above can change as we update it with new information from disease investigation.

Weekly Statewide Data Summaries

Weekly Pediatric MIS-C Cases and Deaths

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19 that causes inflammation in many body parts, including the heart and other vital organs.

Weekly High Case and High Incidence Counties

Tracking counties with recent high numbers of COVID-19 cases, adjusted for population, provides insight on where local outbreaks are most serious, and where protective measures should be increased. For more accurate reporting, these weekly charts include sample collection dates only up to seven days in the past to allow for case investigation and delays in lab test reports.

Cases counts in these charts is based on the date of illness onset. If the date of illness is not known, the date the test sample was taken, or the date of test result reporting is used instead. Counts are adjusted as cases are investigated.

Counties are ranked by highest weekly case counts, and by weekly incidence (cases proportional to population). A separate table ranking all counties is also available. All tables updated weekly.

• Full tables of counties ranked by weekly incidence and cases PDF

Syndromic Surveillance

Emergency department visits by those with symptoms characteristic of COVID-19, influenza and pneumonia, updated weekly.

Estimated Recoveries

Presumed COVID-19 cases recovered, estimated weekly (does not include cases still under investigation).

 

 

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