Drop in Missouri COVID-19 cases stalls, creates some worry
April 5, 2021
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ST. LOUIS (AP) After weeks of declining COVID-19 transmissions across Missouri, experts worry that the drop has stalled and caseloads could start to rise again.
“Every time you think this pandemic is going to keep going down, it throws you a new curve ball,” Dr. Alex Garza, the head of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The number of new daily cases of the coronavirus peaked in January then began to drop sharply. Missouri’s seven-day average dropped below 500 a day last month, for the first time since the summer. The St. Louis region’s daily average hospital admissions tumbled to 35, the lowest in eight months.
IDPH notes 2 Madison County deaths
Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com
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This Madison County Health Department Graphic illustrates the number of COVID-19 deaths by age per month within the county since April.
WOOD RIVER Two new COVID-19 related deaths in Madison County were among the 40 reported Sunday by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
The IDPH reported the Madison County deaths of a woman in her 50s and a man in his 60s.
The Madison County Health Department reported seven COVID-19 related deaths Friday and Saturday. Friday’s deaths included a woman in her 70s, two women in their 80s annd a man in his 90s. Saturday’s deaths included three men, in their 50s, 60s and 70s.