The Herald's Weekly Coronavirus Update

– WEEKLY UPDATE –

As of 2/9/2021

Area Counties

#Cases / #Deaths / Rate*

Bedford: 2,713 / 125 / 261.0

Blair: 8,399 / 275 / 225.7

Cambria: 8,455 / 372 / 285.7

Centre: 11,011 / 201 / 123.8

Clearfield: 4,510 / 110 / 138.8

Fulton: 610 / 13 (n/c) / 89.5

Huntingdon: 3,331/ 116 / 257.0

Somerset: 4,850 / 184 / 250.5

*Rate is number of deaths per 100,000 population. It is used to compare county death rates.

– Week of Feb. 2 –

Area Counties

#Cases / #Deaths / Rate

Bedford: 2,965 / 121 / 252.7

Blair: 8,212 / 256 / 210.1

Cambria: 8,313 / 364 / 279.6

Centre: 10,479 / 193 / 118.9

Clearfield: 4,404 / 100 / 126.2

Fulton: 599 / 13 / 89.5

Huntingdon: 3,264/ 115 / 254.7

Somerset: 4,783 / 176 / 239.6

Pennsylvania

756,525 cases to date

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22,471 deaths to date

Week of Feb. 4:

21,687 total deaths

United States

27,045,229 cases to date

Week of Feb. 4:

26,254,646 total cases

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464,136 deaths to date

Week of Feb. 4:

442,010 total deaths

Worldwide

106,503,921 cases to date

Week of Feb. 4:

103,447,271 total cases

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2,326,350 deaths to date

Week of Feb. 4:

2,239,460 total deaths

Update: Feb. 9, 2021

The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed as of midnight, Feb. 9, there were 4,088 additional positive cases of COVID-19, in addition to 2,504 new cases reported Monday, Feb. 8 and 4,717 new cases reported Sunday, Feb. 7 for a three-day total of 11,309 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 876,913.

Case counts for Monday are low as a result of maintenance to the data server on Sunday. Case counts for Tuesday include cases as a result of catch-up reporting because of server downtime. This maintenance did not affect the death reporting system on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday as the death data comes from a different server.

There are 2,881 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. Of that number, 565 patients are in the intensive care unit with COVID-19. The trend in the 14-day moving average number of hospitalized patients per day has increased by nearly 2,800 since the end of September.

Statewide percent positivity for the week of Jan. 29 to Feb. 4 stood at 8.6 percent. As of 11:59 p.m. Feb. 6, there were 71 new deaths, as of 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 7, there were 4 new deaths, and as of 11:59 p.m. on Feb. 8, there were 149 new deaths identified by the Pennsylvania death registry, reported for a total of 22,620 deaths attributed to COVID-19. County-specific information and a statewide map are available on the COVID-19 Data Dashboard.

COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Pennsylvania hospitals began receiving shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 14 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine the week of Dec. 21.

Through Feb. 13: 2,439,550 doses of the vaccine will have been allocated/received by providers.

175,175 first doses will have been allocated this week.

1,426,600 first doses will have been allocated in total.

143,275 second doses will have been allocated this week.

1,012,950 second doses will have been allocated in total.

Correction/Apology

The Herald reports on the growing number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths every week. These numbers include Blair County and surrounding counties’ numbers, Pennsylvania's numbers, the United States's numbers, and worldwide numbers. These numbers are compiled by Herald staff. Last week, the numbers for Bedford County and Pennsylvania confirmed cases were incorrect, as they were probable cases, not confirmed cases. Please excuse our mistake. This week's numbers are up to date and have been corrected.