BENTON, Ky. (Jan. 27, 2022) – Positive COVID-19 cases continue to rise in our community. According to Billy Pitts, Marshall County Public Health Director, until August of this past year, it was unheard of for Marshall County to have 700 cases over the course of a month, but now we’ve experienced 722 new cases in a week. Unfortunately, hospitalization data was unavailable to us this week. On a positive note, no additional COVID related deaths have been reported.
This chart depicts the weekly 7-day average as reported by KDPH every Wednesday (based on the average of the previous 7 days). This week we are at 256.8. This is up from 226.9 this time last week
Here is the data for Marshall County as of today.
Total COVID Cases 7,642 (Increase of 722 from last week)
Current Active Cases 1,164 (Increase of 320 from last week)
Current Hospitalizations ? (Hospital data unavailable this week)
Total COVID related deaths 91 (No change from last week)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
Dec 2021 |
Nov 2021 |
Oct 2021 |
Sep 2021 |
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Cases for the month |
1,980 |
432 |
184 |
205 |
614 |
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COVID related Deaths |
6 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
7 |
Disclaimer: All information in this update is point-in-time data. Information changes daily.
Billy Pitts, Marshall County Public Health Director