Another Carroll County resident has died from complications associated with COVID-19, bringing the pandemic death toll for the county to 116.
The new death – the first in 21 days — was listed in a report issued by the Arkansas Department of Health on Sept. 16, a report that also indicated a downward trend in active cases over the previous seven days. The ADH reported 73 active cases on Sept. 9 and 67 on Sept. 16, including an increase of 33 new cases in seven days and 64 in the past four weeks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, meanwhile, continued to rate Carroll County’s community transmission level in its weekly report at “low,” with a case rate of 140.94 per 100,000 — down from 151.52 on Sept. 9 — with new COVID-19 hospital admissions per 100,000 at 3.7, matching the previous week. The percentage of staffed, inpatient beds in use by patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 was reported as 1 percent, down from 1.1 the previous week.
Carroll County saw an increase of 33 new cases of COVID-19 since Sept. 9, raising the pandemic total to 6,872 with 6,689 reported “recoveries” — meaning those individuals have passed the quarantine period and are no longer being monitored by the health department.
Statewide, the ADH reported an increase of 5,248 cases in the seven-day period ending Sept. 16, along with 6,977 recoveries and an additional 26 deaths. Those increases bring the statewide totals to 944,789 cases with 923,430 recoveries and 11,951 deaths. The state health department reported 9,213 active cases on Sept. 16, down from the previous week’s reported total of 10,968.
On the vaccination front, the ADH reported that 1,663,404Arkansans aged 5 and older — 58.5 percent of the state’s eligible population — have been fully vaccinated against the virus, with another 288,798 listed as partially vaccinated. Of those fully vaccinated, 833,080 people have also received a third dose or booster.
In Carroll County, 36,468 doses of the various vaccines have been administered, and the health department reported that 54.5 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, with an additional 7.5 percent listed as partially vaccinated.
