Coconino County currently has moderate community levels of COVID-19 spread, and Friday’s latest health update showed that indicators are on the rise despite mixed indicators across the board. is showing.
Meanwhile, the number of H1N1 influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases continued to decline.
COVID-19 (new coronavirus infectious disease)
According to Friday’s update, Coconino County moved to the low-to-medium community level during the week of Dec. 31, with both metrics up.
The report found 9.8 per 100,000 new hospital admissions for COVID (a low figure at the community level) and 10.3% of staffed inpatient beds were occupied by COVID patients, which is moderate. is the level of Last week, they reported a COVID hospitalization rate of 5.6 per 100,000 people, with 8% of beds occupied by COVID patients.
COVID community-level metrics for Coconino County for the week ending Dec. 31.
Courtesy, CCHHS
However, the number of new cases reported in the county continued to decline from last week’s 96 (rate of 67.3) to 74 (rate of 51.9 per 100,000). Positive COVID test rates also fell to 7.8% from 9.5% the week before. A total of 964 COVID tests were conducted in the county, compared with 1,132 last week.
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Residents aged 65 and older continued to have the highest case rate (130 per 100,000) and positive rate (13.3%).
The number of hospitalizations for COVID rose to 20 this week from 11 the previous week, marking the third straight week of two COVID deaths reported. His hospital admission rate for COVID-like illness in the county was 6.6% for the second consecutive week.
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According to TGen’s Arizona COVID-19 Sequencing Dashboard, the Omicron subvariant BQ continues to account for the majority (68.61%) of Omicron genomes sequenced statewide in the week ending December 31. BQ is followed by BA.5 (11.68%), XBB (8.03%), ‘Other Omicrons’ (5.84%), BF (3.65%) and BA.2 (2.19%). The week before that had a similar pattern, with BA.2 and BF having a larger share and XBB having a smaller share.
Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) also introduced a new format to their dashboards, displaying community-level metrics in dials instead of graphs. It also displays the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths over time by week, with additional charts showing breakdowns by age, race, location, and more.
Chart showing COVID hospitalizations in Coconino County during the course of the pandemic.
Courtesy, CCHHS
Both weekly update formats can be viewed at the following URLs: coconino.az.gov/2598/COVID-19-Data Dashboard.
Influenza and RSV
New cases of both influenza and respiratory syncytial virus continue to decline, according to recent reports. Coconino County has reported a total of 1,037 flu cases and 523 of her RSV cases so far this season.
After reporting 54 new cases of influenza in the week of 24 December, CCHHS reported only 7 new cases of influenza in the week of 31 December. average). The season total so far is 456% higher than the regular season at this point.
The county also reported that the number of new RSV cases reported this week dropped to 16 from 34 the previous week.
mpox
The county has reported a total of seven mpox cases to date. The Arizona Department of Health (ADHS) has reported a total of 584 cases statewide as of January 9, with 36 hospitalizations and no deaths. One added in the week of Dec 25th.
Additional public health information for Coconino County, including mpox, flu, RSV, and COVID information, is available at: coconino.az.gov/2124/Health-and-Human-Services.
