By John Estridge from ISDH data
Fayette County had some bad COVID-19-related numbers Friday, September 11.
Another death was added to that county’s total making what are deemed COVID-19-related deaths 13. Positive test results also went up by 13 to 393.
Recently, the Indiana State Department of Health changed the way it is reporting results. It has gone to a color-coded map method with different numbers representing results from that county. All of this is updated on Wednesdays.
Fayette County is colored orange the next to the highest level. It also has a warning symbol on the county, meaning “a large number of the weekly cases being attributable to congregate settings.” But it does not go into detail to describe what congregate settings. The Fayette Department of Health Facebook page does not have any more information on the congregate settings either.
Another element to the orange rating by the Indiana State Department of Health is the number of new cases per 100,000 residents. Fayette County’s is at 216. Its seven-day positive (test) rate is 12.55 percent, which the state also considers high.
Franklin and Union county numbers are better than Fayette County.
Franklin County has two new positive test results, making 285 in the county since mid-March. There are no new deaths in either county with those numbers remaining 25 and zero, respectively. Union County did not have any new positive test results, meaning that number remains at 71.
For the state, the number of positive test results increased by 1,282 to make the total 103,505 and the deaths went up by 10 to 3,196.