1,116 New Cases of COVID-19& 9 Deaths 10/15/2020

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COVID-19 in Mississippi

New Cases and Deaths as of October 15

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	1032	40 *	56	13
Alcorn	938	12	18	2
Amite	412	13	15	2
Attala	755	25	90	20
Benton	296	4	14	0
Bolivar	1973	75	217	30
Calhoun	605	12	25	4
Carroll	453	12	45	9
Chickasaw	811	24	44	13
Choctaw	202	6	1	0
Claiborne	528	16	43	9
Clarke	704	48	91	25
Clay	663	21	19	3
Coahoma	1223	36	87	6
Copiah	1328	36	71	7
Covington	902	25	34	10
De Soto	6495	77	73	15
Forrest	2906	77	176	41
Franklin	223	3	4	1
George	927	16	36	6
Greene	444	17	40	6
Grenada	1193	37	113	20
Hancock	739	27	35	6
Harrison	4713	81	255	32
Hinds	7707	170	461	73
Holmes	1129	60	101	20
Humphreys	394	16	21	6
Issaquena	106	3	0	0
Itawamba	1070	24	87	17
Jackson	4258	77	86	8
Jasper	657	16	1	0
Jefferson	259	10	13	3
Jefferson Davis	390	11	3	1
Jones	2799	81	183	37
Kemper	315	15	41	9
Lafayette	2405	42	123	28
Lamar	2100	38	39	11
Lauderdale	2311	130	261	74
Lawrence	489	14	26	2
Leake	1110	39	35	5
Lee	3354	79	180	37
Leflore	1582	86	193	47
Lincoln	1321	54	152	32
Lowndes	1729	62	98	33
Madison	3683	92	238	45
Marion	926	42	92	14
Marshall	1273	25	44	9
Monroe	1422	72	170	52
Montgomery	523	23	52	9
Neshoba	1790	110	129	39
Newton	840	27	39	9
Noxubee	593	16	20	4
Oktibbeha	1932	54	193	31
Panola	1642	36	42	6
Pearl River	1063	55	93	22
Perry	469	22	20	7
Pike	1351	55	97	27
Pontotoc	1426	19	16	2
Prentiss	1007	19	48	3
Quitman	410	6	0	0
Rankin	3773	86	173	23
Scott	1216	29	21	3
Sharkey	277	14	43	8
Simpson	1174	48	117	19
Smith	576	16	54	8
Stone	443	14	55	9
Sunflower	1557	49	80	14
Tallahatchie	817	25	29	7
Tate	1119	39	51	13
Tippah	844	20	56	0
Tishomingo	779	40	96	26
Tunica	518	17	15	2
Union	1119	25	46	11
Walthall	628	27	67	13
Warren	1511	54	119	25
Washington	2493	95	158	36
Wayne	972	21	59	10
Webster	361	13	52	11
Wilkinson	329	20	20	5
Winston	810	21	40	11
Yalobusha	479	14	36	7
Yazoo	1160	33	82	12
Total	109,255	3,160	6,468	1,275

Case Classifications

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

	Confirmed	Probable	Total
Cases	97,953	11,302	109,255
Deaths	2,869	291	3,160

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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