Pettis County added 18 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 11,930, according to the Pettis County Health Center.
The Pettis County COVID-19 Task Force is continuing to receive late case reports and is working with its partners to facilitate timely data reporting.
“The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services website is reporting Pettis County has a positivity rate of 3.1% for the past seven days as compared to 1.8% for last week with PCR testing,” the task force briefing stated on Monday. “The case count per 100,000 for the past seven days is 24/100,000. This week there were 358 PCR tests and 218 antigen tests for a total of 576. Last week there were 645 tests. At this time, the counts do not include home test results.”
The vaccine breakthrough for the week ending March 20 is three out of 14 cases counted for a breakthrough rate of 21%. Of the vaccinated cases, two had received a booster dose.
Influenza cases continue to increase. As of March 21, there were 761 cases of influenza reported.
As of Tuesday, there were 752 hospitalized in Missouri with COVID as compared to 780 hospitalized with COVID last week. There are 124 people in ICU as compared to 145 people in ICU last week.
According to the latest information, omicron accounts for 100% of the variant reported in the sewer shed report. There was no report for Sedalia for last week, however, the Omicron B2A variant was identified in Warrensburg.
Pettis County is currently in the yellow or medium risk category. The guidance for a medium-risk county is as follows: Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines and get tested if you have symptoms. If you are a high-risk individual, talk to your physician about precautions to take. Anyone should feel comfortable wearing a mask and high-risk individuals should check with their doctor.
There are zero individuals hospitalized at Bothwell Regional Health Center as compared to zero last week. The DHSS website reports 124 deaths in Pettis County with a confirmed PCR test and 33 deaths with a positive antigen test. This is an increase of two since last week.
Approximately 47.4% of the population of Pettis County residents have started vaccination. According to the state website, 2,063 Pettis County residents have started vaccination and 18,045 have had at least two doses, which is approximately 42.6% of the population.
Pettis County is falling behind the state rate of 63.4% have started vaccination and 56.4% have received at least two doses. The state is reporting 74.5% of the population over 18 has started and 66.4% have received at least two doses. For Pettis County, 59% of the population 18 and older have started vaccination (18,832) and 53.2% (16,985) have received at least two doses.
According to the DHSS website, 16.3% (1,239) of 5-17-year-olds have started vaccination and 14% (1,059) have received two doses. For the 65 and older age group, 80.2% (5,810) have started vaccination and 73.2% (5,301) have received at least two doses. Only 127 Pettis County residents received a vaccine last week.
Pettis County Health Center has regular walk-in clinics from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Tuesdays.
This week’s Bothwell COVID-19 vaccine clinic for the Pfizer two-dose primary series and booster doses is from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at Bothwell Health Center-Truman Lake in Warsaw.
Due to decreased demand for the Pfizer vaccine, the last public vaccine clinic will be April 13 at Bothwell Healing Arts Center. After that date, all requests for the Pfizer vaccine will be referred to Bothwell Walk-In Clinic.
Katy Trail Community Health is providing the Pfizer vaccine to community members from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays at 816 Westwood Drive.
