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By almost every measure, spread of the infection has now slowed and the impact on health care providers has eased. The positive rate on tests is below 4 percent and hospitalizations are less than 25 percent of their December peak.
Putnam ranks 4th in state for new COViD indicator Thursday, April 29, 2021 8:38 AM
PUTNAM COUNTY On Monday, the Ohio Department of Health released a new method for tracking the COVID-19 virus throughout the state: positivity rate. Under the new county-specific measure, Putnam County ranks fourth in the state.
“The positivity rate is a new indicator,” Sherri Recker, director of nursing with the Putnam County Health Department explained on Tuesday. “Out of the total number of tests done, what rate of those people tested are positive with the PCR test.”
Recker said the PCR test is the most accurate and reliable of the COVID tests in use, adding the State only analyzes those individuals tested in such a way, and not with rapid tests commonly given in hospitals and nursing homes. According to ODH, roughly 10% of those individuals PCR tested in Putnam County have proven positive.
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Instead of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, they were offered a dose of the two-shot Moderna brand.
Putnam County officials had planned on giving out both at two vaccination clinics in Garrison Tuesday. That changed abruptly when the Federal Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a joint recommendation to pause administering Johnson & Johnson.
“People who have been coming in today that were expecting the J and J with our quick change really handled it well. Most of them did stay for the Moderna and were thankful and it wasn’t a negative experience at all it all turned out pretty well,” said Kathy Percacciolo, Putnam County Health Department’s supervising public health nurse.