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Highest single-day virus hike reached

Warren County surpassed 300 total cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 36 new cases of COVID-19 in the county on Tuesday.

That is a new single-day record, easily eclipsing the previous high of 25 announced Thanksgiving Day.

According to the department’s statistics, the county has now had a total of 303 cases.

The department generally considers people who had COVID-19 to be recovered after 30 days.

“For the recovered data point we are reporting, individuals who have recovered is determined using a calculation, similar to what is being done by several other states,” according to information from the department’s press office. “If a case has not been reported as a death, and it is more than 30 days past the date of their first positive test (or onset of symptoms) then an individual is considered recovered.”

Using that criteria, because the county’s cases have been heavily concentrated in the last month, only about 75 cases would be considered recovered, leaving as many as 228 active. The county’s total has more than quadrupled since the end of October.

The rate in the county on Tuesday was 767.1 for every 100,000 population. Only Cameron County, at 601.1 per 100,000, had a lower rate as of Tuesday.

The department’s statistics indicate that there were 12 COVID cases at Warren General Hospital on Tuesday. Although three of the hospital’s four ventilators were reported in use, none of them were in use by COVID patients and none of the COVID patients were in intensive care.

The new cases were spread all over the county.

According to zip code data provided by the department, there were 12 new cases and one probable case in Warren, four confirmed and two probable in Youngsville, three confirmed in Sugar Grove, two in Clarendon, Pittsfield, Russell, Sheffield, and Tidioute, a new confirmed case in Bear Lake, and at least two new confirmed cases in Grand Valley. The department redacts the exact number when a zip code has at least one case, but less than five. Grand Valley’s report went from one to four cases on Monday to six cases on Tuesday.

There were new cases in Titusville (14) and Corry (7). Both of those zip codes include Warren County residents.

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