(Spirit Lake)– The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors today (Tues.) were updated on the latest COVID-19 numbers for the county. Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Ehret, who also serves on the Dickinson County COVID-19 Committee, reported the county’s death toll is much higher than what is being reported on the state’s coronavirus website…
“The state site is lagging by at least two weeks if not more. Through today we actually have 21 total in the county. The state site is only reporting 13. That’s six in the past two weeks and nine just since the first of December. We’re kind of seeing the bump in hospitalizations and deaths kind of following the bump we had in positive cases in November. If you remember we were pretty high in November. Fortunately that’s waned but now we’re seeing the hospitalizations and some deaths come here a few weeks later, so.“
Ehret says things remain very busy at Lakes Regional Healthcare…
“As of Friday they had 11 covid positive patients in the hospital. A total of 105 since this started. Their seven day average actually now will be covid positive patients have, are higher, than the non covid. For the seven day average 11 covid positive patients and nine non covid, so.”
Ehret says they’ve also been busy recently delivering additional PPE from the state’s regional hub in Cherokee…
“So we’ve delivered 17,400 items to the three nursing homes in the county and that includes gloves, gowns and masks. If you like numbers, a grand total since March we’ve delivered 150,631 items. Not just to nursing homes but schools, the hospital, even here at the courthouse and some other facilities too. So the big number there is 87,100 gloves. That’s not pairs, that’s individual gloves.”
On a positive note, Ehret says Dickinson county’s 14 day positivity rate has dropped to 13 percent while the seven day rate is down to 9 percent.
