Erie County Reports 179 New Cases Today Including Albion Prison Outbreak 801 total new cases and nine deaths were reported this week by Nick Warren
CDC/Erie Reader
On Wednesday, Mar. 10, the office of Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper announced 179 new positive cases of COVID-19. Dahlkemper was quick to note that of the new cases, 132 are attributed to mass testing that was conducted at Albion State Correctional Institution.
It was noted by both Dahlkemper and the Erie County Department of Health s Melissa Lyon that while the vast majority of these Albion cases occurred amongst an isolated group of individuals, there is some risk concerning the employees of Albion SCI in regards to community spread. Lyon categorized the overall risk of this particular outbreak as mild to low to the community.
Data-entry error results in hundreds of misclassified COVID-19 cases in Ada County
Scripps
and last updated 2021-03-04 23:57:11-05
Through Thursday, Central District Health was reporting 39,529 confirmed cases and 7,603 probable cases in Ada County. Health and Welfare, however, showed Ada County with 39,988 confirmed cases and 7,165 probable cases.
âWe recently recognized a data-entry issue wherein some probable cases related to antigen test results were entered into the stateâs system by CDH as confirmed,â district spokesperson Christine Myron wrote in an email to the Idaho Statesman. âWe are working to reconcile this, and as we continue to do so, the confirmed cases on the stateâs site will come down, and the number of probable cases will go up.