Another Porter
County resident has succumbed to COVID-19, the Porter County Health
Department (PCHD) reported after deadline on Monday. The victim was a Center
Township resident in the 60-69 age group residing in a long-term care
facility (LTCF).
To date, 66 Porter
County residents have died of COVID-19. Thirteen of them were Dunelanders:
eight Westchester Township residents and five Liberty Township. Twenty-three
were Portage Township residents; 27 Center Township; and three Union
Township. Deaths by demographic: three in the 40-49; eight in the 50-59; 12
in the 60-69; 14 in the 70-79; 15 in the 80-89; and 14 in the 90-and-over.
In the 10 days
since Friday, Oct. 30, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 10 Porter County
residents.
Hospitalizations
Meanwhile, COVID-19
hospitalizations are continuing to rise in Porter County, with PCHD
reporting 34 on Monday, up from 31 on Sunday. Monday's 34 hospitalizations
are the most on any given day of the pandemic in Porter County, exceeding
the previous high of 31 reported only one day earlier, on Sunday, Nov. 8.
Prior to Nov. 3, no
more than 28 COVID-19 patients had ever been hospitalized at one time: on
May 20, more than five months ago.
Of Monday's 34
hospitalizations, nine were nursing home residents.
New Cases
Also on Monday,
PCHD reported 193 new COVID-19 cases (92 new cases on Sunday), to bring the
total so far to 5,093. Those 193 cases are just three short of the
single-day new-case record of 196 set on Thursday, Nov. 5.
Of those 193 new
cases, 129--or 67 percent--were in the younger age groups: 30 in the 0-20
(713 total); 28 in the 20-29 (911 total); 32 in the 30-39 (799 total); and
39 in the 40-49 (794 total).
The remaining 64
cases--or 33 percent--were in the older age groups: 28 in the 50-59 (818
total); 20 in the 60-69 (556 total); 11 in the 70-79 (281 total); and five
in the 80-89 (148 total). Total in the 90-and-over: 73.
LTCFs
Of the 193 new
cases reported on Monday, six were in long-term care facilities, to bring
the total so far to 257, up from 251 on Sunday.
Of those 257 cases,
nine are currently hospitalized, down from 10 on Sunday; 112 have recovered,
up from 98 on Sunday; and 43 have died, up from 42 on Sunday.
Right now there are
102 active COVID-19 cases in Porter County nursing homes, down from 111 on
Sunday.
Over the first six
months of the pandemic--from March 17, when PCHD first started tracking
COVID-19 numbers, to Oct. 16--a total of 119 cases was reported by nursing
homes. In the 24 days since, that number has grown by fully 138 new cases,
or 116 percent.
Active Cases
PCHD reported 3,632
recoveries on Monday, up from 3,099 on Sunday.
Total active cases
in Porter County, after subtracting the 3,099 recoveries and 66 deaths:
1,395, down from 1,736 on Sunday.
Other Indicators
PCHD recently
introduced other indicators on its COVID-19 dashboard: a seven-day rolling
average of new cases per 100,000 residents; and a seven-day rolling average
of the unique-individual positivity rate.
* New cases
per 100,000 residents as of Monday: 570 (549 on Sunday; 400 on Monday, Nov.
2).
*
Unique-individual positivity rate as of Nov. 1: 21.1 percent (20.7 percent
on Oct. 31; 18.7 percent on Oct. 25). Note: the positivity rate lags up to
eight days due to Indiana State Department of Health reporting methods.
Duneland Cases by
Township
as of Monday
*
Westchester: 628 cases (598 on Sunday). Active cases: 184 (208 on Sunday).
* Liberty:
326 cases (314 on Sunday). Active cases: 89 (111 on Sunday).
* Jackson: 89
cases (84 on Sunday). Active cases: 19 (22 on Sunday).
* Pine: 21
cases (unchanged from Sunday). Active cases: seven (eight on Sunday).
Other Townships as
of Monday
* Portage:
1,600 cases (1,546 on Sunday). Active cases: 379 (466 on Sunday).
* Center:
1,460 (1,403 on Sunday). Active cases: 455 (579 on Sunday).
* Washington:
174 cases (171 on Sunday. Active cases: 27 (40 on Sunday).
* Union: 299
cases (290 on Sunday). Active cases: 101 (119 on Sunday.