COVID-19 Cases Steadily Climbing In County

Crawford County’s COVID-19 cases are steadily climbing again.

For the week ending July 14, 30 cases were detected — double the amount over the previous seven days.

The seven-day positivity rate made a jump to 14.9%.

Though new cases are rising, the county’s 125 per 100,000 total is 53rd highest.

Many counties throughout the state are experiencing increases worse than Crawford. However, Crawford County is trending in the wrong direction.

To date, there have been 2,405 cases, 335 probable cases and 40 deaths. No new deaths have been reported in two months.

Statewide, Missouri continues on the wrong course.

For the week ending July 14, a daily average of 1,200 new cases were reported.

Nearly 9,000 new cases were confirmed during the week and another 3,353 probable cases were detected.

On July 12, Missouri reported a staggering 1,740 cases.

It was the highest total since late January.

Missouri has reported a total of 543,694 cases, 101,295 probable cases and 9,474 deaths.

The state’s vaccination efforts continue, with an average of 9,148 doses administered for the week ending July 14.

The state’s daily average of doses is roughly the same as it was back in December 2020 when supply was limited and the administration was more targeted.

Only 46% of the population has initiated the vaccine and only 40.1% have completed it.

Among those 18 and older, 56.6% have initiated the vaccine and another 49.7% have completed it.

Boone and St. Louis counties, along with Joplin, are the only jurisdictions where more than 50% of the population has initiated the vaccine.

Franklin County has one of the highest vaccination rates in the state at 44.5%.

Crawford County has just now seen 25.2% of the population initiated the vaccine and only 22.1% have completed it.

Hospitalizations

Hospitalizations in Missouri are back to where they were in mid-February.

As of July 14, 1,424 people were hospitalized and 440 were in ICU.

The southwestern portion of the state is seeing the same level of hospitalizations during the peak last winter.

As of July 14, 500 people were hospitalized and another 200 were in ICU.

The St. Louis region has seen an uptick in hospitalizations, though not at the same levels.

There were 406 hospitalized and 103 in ICU.