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Six COVID cases are reported in 2 days in county

Image courtesy of Pennsylvania Department of Health The Department of Health's COVID-19 Dashboard shows Warren County in the lightest shade of any county in terms of COVID-19 cases despite three new cases announced on both Wednesday and Thursday.

In the last two days, Warren County has six new cases of COVID-19.

The Department of Health announced three new cases again on Thursday, bringing the total to 34.

Of those, 23 are confirmed and 11 are probable.

For a county with so few cases, an increase of six in two days (seven in three days) is significant.

The department had reported 27 cases in the county through the end of August.

Counting the one case reported on Tuesday, the number of cases has jumped by 25 percent in the first three days of September.

Despite the increase, as of Thursday, Warren County is the last county in the state under the 100 cases per 100,000 population threshold — at 86.10 cases per 100,000.

On Wednesday, McKean County was still under 100 per 100,000. Our neighbor to the east crossed that line on Thursday and now has 100.10 cases per 100,000, according to the Department of Health.

Of the new cases in Warren County, as many as five could be accounted for by the Warren County School District and the Rouse Estate.

The district announced the department reported a case related to the schools on Tuesday.

The Rouse Estate announced Wednesday a total of four positive tests among staff.

“The third round of universal COVID-19 testing… revealed positive results on two Rouse Home employees and two Rouse Estate support personnel,” according to a release from Marketing Director Kelsey Angove. “All positive employees were asymptomatic and tested negative on follow-up rapid retesting.”

“The health and safety of both our residents and staff is of the utmost importance, and we are taking action to reduce the risk of exposure for all,” Rouse Estate CEO Kenneth Schonbachler said. “To date, we consider ourselves lucky to have limited our exposure as a result of the pro-active efforts of our team.”

According to health officials, the incubation period for COVID-19 is generally four to five but up to 14 days from exposure. Test results of a person who has the virus, but is within that incubation period, are likely to be negative.

Then, test results generally take two to as many as 10 days to return. Depending on when they were tested, a person who was positive at the time of testing could be over the disease by the time the results come back.

The CDC’s recommended isolation (positive cases) and quarantine (close contacts) duration is 14 days or 10 days after symptom onset.

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