Where Montgomery County Stands On 6 Key Coronavirus Metrics

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — The average daily number of patients on ventilators in Montgomery County has dropped to 3.0 this week, down from 9.6 over the previous seven days.

That's just one of six key coronavirus metrics tracked by state health officials on the Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard, metrics which show strong trends in Montgomery County.

It's in addition to the percent positivity rate of all coronavirus tests in the county, which is perhaps the number most frequently referenced by health officials looking to gauge the course of the virus in the state in recent weeks. Montgomery County's number continues to remain very strong, and sits at 2.9 percent for the last seven days, one of the best in the region. It averaged 2.5 percent the seven days before that.

COVID-19 hospitalizations in Montgomery County dipped from 57.4 over the previous seven days down to 46.7 in the most recent seven days.

Additionally, the percentage of all emergency department visits in the county that are related to COVID-like illnesses is at a very low 0.6 percent for the past week. It stood roughly the same, 0.4 percent, over the previous seven days.

Newly reported confirmed cases have also stayed roughly the same, both over the past two weeks and past couple of months. There have been 298 cases reported in the past seven days, and 248 cases the week before that.

The sixth metric is the "incidence rate per 100,000," which is at 36 cases for the past seven days. It was at 29.9 the previous seven.

The county reported 40 new cases on Wednesday. There are now 10,351 cases and 824 total deaths county-wide since the pandemic began.