801 New Cases of COVID-19 & 21 Deaths 10/20/2020

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COVID-19 in Mississippi

New Cases and Deaths as of October 20

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	1052	43	59	13
Alcorn	967	12	18	2
Amite	420	13	15	2
Attala	781	26	90	20
Benton	319	4	14	0
Bolivar	1994	77	217	30
Calhoun	618	12	25	4
Carroll	468	12	45	9
Chickasaw	832	25	46	13
Choctaw	203	6	1	0
Claiborne	534	16	43	9
Clarke	727	50	93	27
Clay	684	21	19	3
Coahoma	1240	36	87	6
Copiah	1357	36	71	7
Covington	945	25	42	10
De Soto	6767	78	80	16
Forrest	2980	78	176	41
Franklin	237	3	4	1
George	957	18	36	6
Greene	459	18	40	6
Grenada	1206	38	113	21
Hancock	787	27	41	6
Harrison	4902	83	257	32
Hinds	7823	176	463	78
Holmes	1137	60	102	20
Humphreys	419	16	21	6
Issaquena	106	4	0	0
Itawamba	1113	25	87	17
Jackson	4393	83	99	8
Jasper	674	17	1	0
Jefferson	271	10	13	3
Jefferson Davis	400	11	7	1
Jones	2853	84	185	38
Kemper	321	15	41	9
Lafayette	2440	42	123	28
Lamar	2190	38	39	11
Lauderdale	2398	134	261	74
Lawrence	504	14	26	2
Leake	1139	40	42	6
Lee	3490	79	180	37
Leflore	1632	87	193	47
Lincoln	1368	56	158	34
Lowndes	1755	62	100	33
Madison	3757	93	238	45
Marion	933	42	92	14
Marshall	1362	26	44	10
Monroe	1465	72	170	52
Montgomery	531	23	52	9
Neshoba	1820	111	130	39
Newton	849	27	39	9
Noxubee	596	17	20	4
Oktibbeha	1976	54	193	31
Panola	1676	38	53	7
Pearl River	1105	59	94	22
Perry	484	23	20	7
Pike	1372	56	97	27
Pontotoc	1452	19	16	2
Prentiss	1029	19	48	3
Quitman	417	6	0	0
Rankin	3859	86	173	23
Scott	1238	29	21	3
Sharkey	280	14	43	8
Simpson	1195	49	117	19
Smith	585	16	54	8
Stone	455	14	55	9
Sunflower	1588	49	83	14
Tallahatchie	825	25	29	7
Tate	1136	39	51	13
Tippah	865	21	60	0
Tishomingo	797	41	96	26
Tunica	523	17	15	2
Union	1160	25	46	11
Walthall	633	27	67	13
Warren	1532	55	123	26
Washington	2537	99	166	38
Wayne	994	21	59	10
Webster	366	13	52	11
Wilkinson	331	20	20	5
Winston	826	21	42	11
Yalobusha	513	14	53	7
Yazoo	1199	33	88	12
Total	112,123	3,223	6,592	1,293

Case Classifications

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

	Confirmed	Probable	Total
Cases	99,919	12,204	112,123
Deaths	2,919	304	3,223

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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