Seventh COVID-19 death in Warren County and four new cases reported Monday

Monday, the Mississippi State Department of Health reports the seventh COVID-19 death in Warren County and four new confirmed cases. The cumulative number of cases in the county is now 154, and the county’s death toll from the virus stands at seven, including five residents of long-term care facilities. Monday’s death was in a long-term care facility. The county has 36 cases in one long-term facility under investigation.

MSDH is reporting 10 deaths in the following counties Monday:

About half of the 635 total deaths in Mississippi have been people who resided in long-term care facilities (322).

MSDH has updated the estimated number of people who can be presumed recovered from COVID-19 in Mississippi. That number is 9,401 through Sunday, May 24. That figure represents about 70% of the cumulative 13,458 cases reported as of Monday, May 25. This figure will be updated weekly.

Based on the number of cases reported Monday, May 3, in Warren County (83), the estimated number of people presumed recovered is 76, with 78 active cases.

These estimates are based on MSDH’s guidelines for calculating estimated recoveries when hospitalizations are not known, using the number of cases 21 days ago, less known outcomes (deaths).

Long-term care facilities

Many of the new cases and deaths in Mississippi are reflected in cases and deaths in the state’s long-term care facilities. The number of individual COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities total 1,706 Saturday, an increase of 60 cases since Saturday. Deaths among residents total 322, an increase of 13. About 12.7% of the state’s cases and 50.7% of the state’s deaths from the virus are people from long-term care facilities. The number of active outbreaks under investigation is 118, an decrease of 10 overnight.

Lauderdale County in East Central Mississippi has the highest number of cases and deaths in long-term care facilities in the state, with 181 cases and 37 deaths Monday. It also has among the highest total COVID-19 cases and deaths reported in the state with 680 cases and 56 deaths as of Monday.

Mississippi is paying special attention to any outbreaks in these facilities. Even one case is a long-term care facility is considered an outbreak because of the ages and poor health of many residents. Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, personal care homes, assisted living facilities, long-term acute care facilities, and psychiatric or chemical dependency residential treatment centers.

COVID-19 in Mississippi counties

Neighboring Hinds County, the state’s virus epicenter, is reporting 898 cases Monday, an increase of 21 since Saturday, and 24 deaths. Thirteen of the deaths in Hinds were residents in long-term care facilities, and 78 cases in long-term care facilities are under investigation.

In other neighboring counties:

Yazoo County reports 219 cases Monday, an increase of 15 since Saturday, and two deaths, unchanged. Yazoo is reporting 10 cases under investigation in long-term care facilities, an increase of two.

Claiborne County reports 58 cases and two deaths (both increased by one since Saturday). One death was a resident in a long-term care facility and two cases in a long-term care facilities are under investigation.

Sharkey County reports seven cases, no deaths and no outbreaks in long-term care facilities.

Issaquena County remains the only county in the state without any reported cases.

In all, 42 Mississippi counties now report more than 100 cases each, and 23 counties report 200 or more. Hinds, Lauderdale, Madison, Scott, Neshoba, Forrest, Desoto and Jones counties report more than 400 cases. Only Greene, Sharkey and Issaquena counties report fewer than 10 cases.

Ten counties report no deaths from the virus. Most other Mississippi counties report deaths in the single digits. The following 26 counties report 10 or more deaths: Adams (15, unchanged since Saturday), Attala (14, up two), Bolivar (11, up one), Carroll (10), Chickasaw (12, unchanged), Clarke (16, unchanged), Forrest (35, up two), Hancock (11, unchanged), Hinds (24, unchanged), Holmes (23, unchanged), Jackson (13, unchanged), Jones (15, up two), Kemper (10, unchanged), Lauderdale (56, up two), Leake (10), Leflore (26, up one), Lincoln (20, unchanged), Madison (21, unchanged), Monroe (24, unchanged), Neshoba (31, up one), Oktibbeha (10, unchanged), Pearl River (27, unchanged), Pike (11, unchanged), Scott (10, unchanged), Smith (10, unchanged) and Tippah (11, unchanged). Carroll and Leake counties were added to this list since Saturday.

Additional information can be found on the MSDH website.

Totals of reported cases since March 11, including those in long-term care facilities: