Washington County reports COVID-19 related death of county resident

The Washington County Health Department announced that the first death from COVID complications since earlier this spring.

“Our office was notified today of the passing of a Washington County resident, a female in her 50s, from complications of COVID-19,” the department said.

The health department also released an extensive report dictating the ages of COVID-19 cases since mid-July. The case counts and breakdown by ages had always been manually but “there are many barriers e face in collecting and releasing information.” WCHD also acknowledged that some data had been missing due to “circumstances beyond our control, including software and access limitation by our department.”

The breakdown by age included:

• July 11-17: 20 cases (1 who is less than 1 year old; 4 ages 1-5; 1 ages 11-15; 1 ages 16-19; 2 in their 20s; 3 in their 30s; 4 in their 50s; 4 in their 60s)
• July 18-24: 7 cases (2 ages 16-19; 2 in their 30s; 3 in their 40s)
• July 25-31: 31 cases (1 ages. 5-10; 1 ages 16-19; 5 in their 20s; 8 in their 30s; 4 in their 40s; 4 in their 50s; 5 in their 60s; 3 in their 70s)
• Aug. 1-7: 39 cases (2 ages 1-5; 2 ages 6-10; 8 ages 11-15; 2 ages 16-19; 5 in their 20s; 5 in their 30s; 6 in their 40s; 2 in their 50s; 3 in their 60s; 2 in their 70s; 1 in their 80s; and 1 in their 90s)
• Aug. 8-14: 58 cases (1 ages 1-5; 3 ages 6-10; 6 ages 11-15; 5 ages 16-19; 5 in their 20s; 9 in their 30s; 10 in their 40s; 4 in their 50s; 9 in their 60s; 5 in their 70s)
• Aug. 15-21: 45 cases (1 less than 1 year old; 2 ages 1-5; 1 ages 6-10; 9 ages 16-19; 3 in their 20s; 10 in their 30s; 7 in their 40s; 7 in their 50s; 2 in their 60s; 2 in their 70s; 1 in their 80s)

The health department also pleaded for patience from the community.

“In addition to barriers and gaps of information from our reporting sources, the department is seeing a decrease in cooperation in identifying other people who are at risk of contracting COVID-19,” they said. “We ask for your patience and cooperation moving through this wave and do what you can to protect our community from the negative impacts of this virus.”