{"id":5538,"date":"2021-10-04T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T02:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=5538"},"modified":"2021-10-04T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T02:33:40","slug":"its-october-2021-how-is-orange-county-doing-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/04\/its-october-2021-how-is-orange-county-doing-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s October 2021, how is Orange County doing with COVID-19?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:195,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ww11.doh.state.fl.us\\\/comm\\\/_partners\\\/covid19_report_archive\\\/covid19-data\\\/covid19_data_20211001.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250216024229\\\/http:\\\/\\\/ww11.doh.state.fl.us\\\/comm\\\/_partners\\\/covid19_report_archive\\\/covid19-data\\\/covid19_data_20211001.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:196,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wesh.com\\\/article\\\/orange-county-mayor-to-give-covid-19-update-monday-morning\\\/37849914&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260415053913\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.wesh.com\\\/article\\\/orange-county-mayor-to-give-covid-19-update-monday-morning\\\/37849914&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_florida_cases.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_florida_cases.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_florida_cases.png 605w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_florida_cases-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_florida_cases-402x300.png 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are nearing the tail end of the Delta surge. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ww11.doh.state.fl.us\/comm\/_partners\/covid19_report_archive\/covid19-data\/covid19_data_20211001.pdf\">October 1st 2021 DOH report<\/a> shows that orange county had &#8220;only&#8221; 2,365 cases in the last week, and our 7 day test positivity rate has dropped down to 5% (for the first time in 3 months&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The number of cases per day are still as bad as in January\/Feb, April\/May, so COVID is definitely spreading in the community, but &#8220;74% of those 12 and older have received at least one dose of the vaccine&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/orange-county-mayor-to-give-covid-19-update-monday-morning\/37849914\">according to Mayor Jerry Demings<\/a>. \u00a0 Although breakthrough infections are possible, being vaccinated gives strong protection against infection, and extremely strong protection against getting sick enough to need hospitalization or dying.<\/p>\n<p>Orange county schools have reported 5909 student cases (and 1,114 employee cases) since August 2nd, and are still enforcing a mask mandate through the end of October.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021-1024x633.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021-485x300.png 485w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/orange_county_schools_oct-4-2021.png 1286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deaths<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, Orange County FL has had 2,045 COVID-19 deaths out of a population of <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">1,457,445<\/span>, or (140 deaths per 100,000 residents), which is a per-capita death rate higher than the countries of South Korea (5), Australia (6), Iceland (9), Japan (14), Norway (16), Egypt (17), India (33) and the Philippines (36) <strong>combined<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are nearing the tail end of the Delta surge. The October 1st 2021 DOH report shows that orange county had &#8220;only&#8221; 2,365 cases in the last week, and our 7 day test positivity rate has dropped down to 5% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/04\/its-october-2021-how-is-orange-county-doing-with-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-5538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5538\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}