This guide with interactive tables, charts and maps illustrates the current status of COVID-19 in Bucks County. These data are updated daily.
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3,622 new cases, 1,617 patients hospitalized and 462 patients in Intensive Care Units
Harrisburg, PA - The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as noon Wednesday, Aug. 25, there were 3,622 additional positive cases of COVID-19. Please note, a large file of 5,227 old test results dating back to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania are included in today’s case count, bringing the statewide cumulative total to 1,286,426.
As of 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 24, there were 33 new deaths identified by the Pennsylvania death registry, reported for a total of 28,131 deaths attributed to COVID-19. There are 1,617 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of that number, 462 patients are in the intensive care unit with COVID-19.
The trend in the 14-day moving average number of hospitalized patients continues to increase again. Statewide percent positivity for the week of Aug 13 – Aug. 19 stood at 6.9%.
The department continues to urge Pennsylvanians to follow CDC guidance for wearing a mask where required by law, rules and regulations, including health care, local business and workplace guidance. For the protection of themselves and others, individuals who have not yet been vaccinated or are partially vaccinated, are still encouraged to wear a mask when in public. Bucks County is in an area of substantial transmission. CDC also recommends all individuals wear a mask indoors in public if you are in an area of substantial or high transmission.
The CDC lists Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia counties as areas of high transmission.
There are 5,090,279 individuals who have tested negative to date.
According to the CDC, as of Wednesday, Aug. 25, Pennsylvania ranks 5th among all 50 states for total doses administered. According to the CDC, as of Wednesday, Aug. 25, 65.1% of Pennsylvanians age 18 and older are fully vaccinated.
Pennsylvania’s vaccine dashboard was updated on Friday, July 9 to more accurately reflect the number of people who are partially and fully vaccinated in each county outside of Philadelphia, along with demographics of those receiving vaccine. Vaccine providers have administered 12,060,033 total vaccine doses as of Wednesday, Aug. 25. 5,902,230 people are fully vaccinated; with 10,115 vaccinations administered yesterday and a seven-day moving average of more than 17,380 people per day receiving vaccinations.
In licensed nursing and personal care homes, there have been a total of 74,142 resident cases of COVID-19 to date, and 15,830 cases among employees, for a total of 89,972 at 1,604 distinct facilities in all 67 counties. Out of total deaths reported to PA-NEDSS, 13,957 have occurred in residents from nursing or personal care facilities; 399 of the 413 reported since yesterday are attributable to a data dump of records from the first four months of the pandemic that were reported to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and not PA-NEDSS where the DOH data is generated. Note that the number of deaths reported to NEDSS is not exactly the same as the COVID-19 related deaths reported by the death registry. The number of deaths among nursing and personal care home residents and employees is taken from the PA-NEDSS death data, as this information is not available in the death registry data.
Approximately 29,959 of total cases have been among health care workers.
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