Wyomings active confirmed COVID-19 case count drops by 208 to 1,290 on Monday – Oil City News

CASPER, Wyo. TheWyoming Department of Health (WDH) reported355 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state during its 3 p.m. Monday, November 22 update.Updates are not provided over the weekend.

There have now been 87,144 confirmed cases in Wyoming since the pandemic began. 131 new probable cases were also added Monday, bringing the total to 22,658.

Wyoming has been adding an average of 159.1 new confirmed cases per day over the last 14 days. There are 1,290 active confirmed cases in the state, 208 fewer than on Friday.

30 new lab confirmed cases were reported in Natrona County on Monday, bringing the pandemic total to 10,052. Probable cases rose by 14 to a total of 6,013.

Hospitalization data from the WDH has not been updated since Friday, when there were 147 COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state. Peak hospitalizations in Wyoming reached 249 on October 21.

No additional COVID-19-related deaths were reported Monday. There have been 1,347 COVID-19-related deaths among Wyoming residents since the pandemic began. These are deaths that have COVID-19 listed as either the underlying or primary cause of death or as a contributing cause of death, theWDH explains.

The number of COVID-19 casesidentified as variant casesstands at 6,777. Variant cases involve a mutated form of the virus and some may spread more easily or result in more serious illness.

The WDHsaysits variant dashboard may underestimate the number of variant cases in Wyoming: Not all positive tests are sequenced to identify which variation of COVID-19 caused illness.

There had been 84,803 recoveries from lab confirmed cases as of Monday as well as 21,857 recoveries from probable cases.

A lab confirmed or probable case is defined as recovered when there is resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications and there is improvement in respiratory symptoms (e.g. cough, shortness of breath) for 24 hours AND at least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared, the WDH says. Cases with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 who have not had any symptoms are considered recovered when at least 10 days have passed since the date of their first positive test and have had no subsequent illness provided they remain asymptomatic.

WDH Public Information Officer Kim Deti explained that the department marks people as recovered once their isolation order date has expired. People who test positive are asked to remain in isolation until 10 days after their first symptoms, 10 days after their test was taken, or longer if they are still showing symptoms.

If people need to be isolated longer than their initial isolation period, they can contact the WDH, who can extend their isolation order. Deti said that in some cases, contact tracing informs whether a case is considered recovered while in others, the department counts someone as recovered after their isolation period ends.

County-specific COVID-19 information is available from the Wyoming Department of Health.Confirmed cases by county are as follows (probable cases in parentheses):

The Wyoming Department of Health provides COVID-19 case, variant, death, testing, hospital and vaccine data online. The department also shares information about how the data can be interpreted. COVID-19 safety recommendations are available from the CDC.

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