COVID-19: Brookings County
UPDATED: October 19, 2020
The South Dakota Department of Health COVID-19 webpage is updated daily and has confirmed:
- Total Cases: 1,223
- Individuals Recovered: 888
- Active Cases: 333
- Spread Category: Substantial
SOURCE: https://doh.sd.gov/news/coronavirus.aspx
COVID-19: Local, Regional & National Data
UPDATED: October 19, 2020
Source: Bonny Specker, Ph. D., South Dakota State University, Division of Research and Economic Development.
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Weekly Summary - Week ending October 19, 2020
Brookings County:
- 1,223 cases: 226 new cases this week vs. 151 last week
- 333 active cases (record high)
- 30 ever hospitalized: 11 new admissions this week vs. 6 last week
- No new deaths
- Substantial community spread. For moderate spread need less than 34 cases in a week.
- Test positivity continues to be high at 36% (WHO recommends < 5%).
What can we do to get this outbreak under control?
- Socially distance, wear a face covering when in public, wash hands often.
- We must get percentage of test positives down. A high percentage says that not enough testing is being done.
- We need to identify symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.
- Let’s have a goal of getting to moderate spread – with a low percentage test positivity.
South Dakota:
- 33,836 cases: 4,911 new cases this week vs. 3,866 last week
- 8,388 active cases (record high)
- 2,146 ever hospitalized: 260 new admissions this week vs. 244 last week
- As of today, 304 individuals are hospitalized with COVID.
- 323 total deaths: 35 deaths this week vs. 40 last week
- Test positivity continues to be high at 37% (record high; WHO recommends < 5%).
USA:
- 8.38 million cases: 395,801 new cases this week vs. 355,086 last week
- 224,730 total deaths: 5,035 deaths this week vs. 5,084 last week
World:
- 40.26 million cases: 2.53 million new cases this week vs. 2.35 million last week
- 1.11 million deaths: 36,912 deaths this week vs. 39,703 last week
Travel Restrictions:
If you are planning to travel either within or outside the U.S., you should look at possible travel restrictions since many states and countries are requiring anyone who has been in South Dakota to quarantine for two weeks or present evidence of a negative COVID test. In some states these are recommendations, while other states enforce these travel bans with relatively high fines. As of September 28rd, the following states require travelers from South Dakota to quarantine (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/travel/state-travel-restrictions.html [website updated daily]):
- Alaska
- Connecticut
- Washington D.C.
- Hawaii
- Illinois (Chicago)
- Kentucky
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
Emerging Information:
Journal of American Medical Association Articles
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768914
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916
Review of aerosol generation, transport, and control in the context of COVID-19: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alr.22661
The coronavirus pandemic and aerosols: Does COVID-19 transmit via expiratory particles? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02786826.2020.1749229
CDC website: COVID-19 – How it Spreads https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.html
Symptom duration and risk factors for delayed return to usual health among outpatients with COVID-19 in a multistate health care systems network – United States, March-June 2020 (Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report): https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm?s_cid=mm6930e1_w
Daily Data | COVID-19 | Updated - October 19, 2020
Download a PDF version of the data presented below here
- 1,223 cases: 226 new cases this week vs. 151 last week
- 333 active cases (record high)
- 30 ever hospitalized: 11 new admissions this week vs. 6 last week
- No new deaths
- Substantial community spread. For moderate spread need less than 34 cases in a week.
- Test positivity continues to be high at 36% (WHO recommends < 5%).
