Associated Press
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania has reached 30,000 deaths related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
In Tuesday’s update, the State Department of Health said there were 151 news deaths reported statewide since Saturday – there were no deaths reported in Monday’s update. That brings the statewide total to 30,058 deaths in Pennsylvania attributed to COVID-19. In the Valley, there was a new death in Montour County with 70, and a new death in Snyder with 96 total since the start of the pandemic. Union County remains with a total of 97 county deaths, and Northumberland County remains with 395.
3,898 new statewide cases of COVID-19 were reported in Tuesday’s update as well, bringing the total number of people who have contracted the disease to 1,486,134 since the pandemic began, The state says 90% of these people have recovered. The department says the state’s positivity rate is 9.6% as well.
Also in Tuesday’s update, there were 56 new Valley cases – 23 in Northumberland County (Where they’ve reached 12,001 total cases since the start of the pandemic); 20 new cases in Union County (7,091 total); nine in Snyder (4,519 total); and four in Montour (2,366 total).
Statewide COVID-19 hospitalization numbers went back up slightly again in Tuesday’s report, with 33 more patients, for a statewide total of 3,000 (676 in ICU and 370 on ventilators).
Locally, Geisinger Danville is treating a total of 72 COVID patients, with 20 in ICU and 13 on ventilators. Geisinger Shamokin is treating a total of 12, none in ICU or on ventilators. Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg is now treating two new patients for 33 total COVID patients – 26 of those are unvaccinated – eight in ICU – seven of those unvaccinated – one on a ventilator, whom is unvaccinated.
At Valley universities, Bucknell now has nine active cases on campus (five students, four staff) with 62 total cases since the semester began. They note that 94.3% of the students and faculty are fully vaccinated. The university updates its COVID-19 dashboard every Wednesday and Friday.
Susquehanna still has six active student cases and three active faculty case (26 total since August 2) and the campus vaccination rate is 95.4%.
Bloomsburg reported five new campus cases, and have reported 213 since the start of the semester.
In statewide vaccine data, more than 13.1 million total doses have been administered statewide since the pandemic began, which includes 277,081 booster doses for the immunocompromised. Over 6.2 million full vaccinations have been administered and 69.7% of those 18 and older are fully vaccinated.
In the Valley, 1,020 new doses were administered since Saturday. Northumberland County has 546 new doses, with 89,831 total doses administered (45,533 fully, 42,443 partially, 1,855 additional), Union County has 182 new doses, with 38,529 total doses administered (19,094 fully, 18,604 partially, 754 additional), Snyder County has 131 new doses with 30,244 total doses (15,010 fully, 14,769 partially, 465 additionally), and Montour has 161 new doses, with 25,302 total doses (12,232 partially, 12, 190 fully, 880 additionally).
