According to Greenwood Director of Emergency Management.
As of yesterday, December 8th’s report, Greenwood County had 11 additional confirmed cases in the county for a total of 11,796 cases confirmed since 21 March 2020. (SCDHEC reported 20, 10 and 9 new confirmed cases on 2, 3 and 4 December.) Remember this is only those which have been confirmed and is for those who were tested a minimum of two days ago. This means there are others who have been tested and are in quarantine awaiting results. Additionally, an individual can be asymptomatic, (contagious but shows no symptoms), and may choose not to be tested.
The first 11,652 cases in Greenwood County were reported over 15 days ago, so there are 11,652 individuals who should have recovered from the virus. Additionally, Greenwood County has had 210 confirmed deaths due to the virus. This brings Greenwood County’s remaining estimated total of active confirmed cases to 181. DHEC does not track recovered individuals by county, so this number is an estimate based on the following: Most individuals recover from the virus within this time frame.
From 23 November until 6 December (2 weeks), Greenwood has had 133 confirmed cases out of a population of 70,811. This equates to an incident rate of 187.8 per 100,000 individuals which is rated as medium by SCDHEC. (Low = 50 or less; Medium = 51 – 200; High = 201 or more)
As of 7 December, Self Regional reported 18 COVID-19 patients with 8 in ICU. Of these, 5 patients are on ventilation.
For more information: https://scdhec.gov/covid19
