Update (2/2/22): 2 Deaths and 23 Additional Clinton County Residents Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Reported By The ISDH

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Wednesday, February 2, 2022, Clinton County had 2 deaths related to COVID-19 while 23 additional residents tested positive for COVID-19, 8,878 residents in total have tested positives for COVID-19. There are 104 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 116,755 total tests have been administered to residents of Clinton County, of which 26,232 have been unique tests as reported by the ISDH.

The deaths are reported to have occurred on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 and Tuesday, February 1, 2022.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 46.2% as of January 26, 2022. The State of Indiana as a whole is 42.1%.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of all tests for Clinton County is 26.1% as of January 26, 2022. The State of Indiana as a whole is 27.3%.

The weekly ISDH County Metrics score released today showed Clinton County with a score of 3.0 an advisory color of Red. Clinton County’s official advisory level is Red.

Clinton County had 1,083 new cases per 100,000 residents – a score of 3 – and a 7-day positivity rate of 29.89% – a score of 3. The ISDH utilized the results of 1/31/2022, 11:59 p.m. for the purpose of calculating the weekly County Metrics.

The ISDH shows a total of 15,236 Clinton County residents have received the first of a two-dose vaccination (an increase of 6 over the previous report) and 15,020 are fully vaccinated (an increase of 4 over the previous report) with 1,136 Clinton County residents receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a single-dose vaccine. Additionally, 6,469 Booster doses have been administered. Statewide, 3,736,939 Hoosiers have received the first of a two-dose vaccination series, 3,648,208 are fully vaccinated with 277,811 from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and 1,673,902 Booster doses have been administered as of 2/2/2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 6,878 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and private laboratories. That brings to 1,636,011 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

To date, 5,035,196 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 5,027,868 on Monday.

The Regenstrief Institute updated hospitalization data as of February 2, at 8:33 a.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative. As of October 27, 2021, Regenstrief Institute will update dashboard data on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (instead of Monday through Friday).

Total Hospitalizations: 639
Emergency Visits: 1,646
ICU Admits: 126
Hospital Deaths: 70

Statewide Recovery: 1,344,694 (89%)
Statewide Deceased: 20,687 (1%)
Statewide Active: 100,620 (9%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location:
Clinton County EMA Office
1859 S. Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
Noon – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

Pre-registration is preferred, but you may register upon arrival.

To schedule a test, use the following:
web: https://scheduling.coronavirus.in.gov/Invitation

Free COVID-19 Vaccination Center in Clinton County

Location:
Clinton County Health Department
1234 Rossville Ave
Frankfort, IN
9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Wednesdays only)

To schedule a vaccination shot:
Schedule at https://ourshot.in.gov or call the Frankfort Public Library system if you have no internet access or have difficulties with scheduling.

Would you like to volunteer your Nursing skills for the Covid Vaccine Clinics?
* Go to https://www.serv-in.org/ to register

* Then go to https://signup.com/go/wCOxxxz to schedule the days & times you are able to help.

Brett W. Todd is the managing editor of Clinton County Today. Clinton County Today is a community-focused website to provide individuals of Clinton County Indiana and surrounding areas with information impacting their lives. Clinton County Today is a service of Progressive Partners of Indiana, LLC where Brett W. Todd is its managing member.