EVANSVILLE — Vanderburgh County reported 146 new COVID-19 cases Friday with three additional deaths in the county, according to the Indiana State Department of Health's statewide dashboard of cases.
Gibson County also reported two additional COVID-19-related deaths Friday, according to the ISDH dashboard.
Vanderburgh has now recorded 12,261 COVID-19 cases since the first one emerged on March 19, plus 153 deaths. Statewide, 71 new deaths were reported Friday raising the total of COVID-19-related deaths to 6,373.
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Vanderburgh County's current run of coronavirus-related deaths began on Oct. 20, when the county reported a new and still-standing one-day record of 10 deaths attributable to COVID-19. That brought the county's coronavirus death toll in one day from 50 to 60.
7-day positivity rate among individual Hoosiers reaches 26.3%
An additional 7,360 positive cases of COVID-19 were reported statewide Friday, bringing Indiana's total to 404,935 cases.
Warrick County has reported 4,138 cases and 77 deaths attributable to COVID-19, Posey 1,523 cases and 22 deaths and Gibson County, 2,506 total cases and 44 deaths.
Vanderburgh County's seven-day positivity rate among individuals dropped slightly to 22.3% Friday. The number covers the period Nov. 28-Dec. 4. The overall positivity rate among individuals is 16.7%.
The all-tests number was 5.5% cumulatively on Friday for Vanderburgh County. The seven-day number was 8.5%.
A total of 73,378 individuals in Vanderburgh County have been tested for COVID-19 since March 11, with 155,942 total tests administered. The number of cases in the 20-29 age group remains the largest demographic of COVID-19 cases, with 20.2%.
The school-age demographic of children age 0-19 accounted for 14.5% of all cases locally Friday, higher than the state's proportion of cases in the 0-19 age bracket, 13.9%.
Indiana ICU bed usage a concern for hospital officials
Hospital officials have expressed concern with high hospitalization rates in the past several weeks as cases continue to rise. In Southwestern Indiana, where Vanderburgh and Warrick counties by far are the largest, only 16.7% of ICU beds are available compared to 21.1% statewide. As of Friday, 37.5% of ICU beds were in use by COVID-19 patients in this area, while statewide that number was 43.1%.