MONDAY UPDATES: Pettis County reports two COVID-19 related deaths; second

UPDATE 6:20 P.M.: Pettis County Health Department is reporting two more deaths related to COVID-19 since their last update Friday.

According to the department, the total number of cases went up 59 to 1,727.

The number of new active cases went down 21 to 451.

The number of recoveries rose by over seven percent to 1,250.

Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 remained the same at 18.

The county’s positivity rate is 11.7-percent, as of the latest update on Oct. 17.

Three key metrics according to the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) when it comes to hospitals are medical bed availability, ICU availability and ventilator availability.

According to the MHA, ventilator and bed availability are both in the green nearing the next level. The ICU availability is in the yellow at 29-percent.

Boone County hospitalization numbers near record high from a week ago

UPDATE 5:30 P.M.: Columbia/Boone County Public Health & Human Services is reporting 25 new cases, the lowest new case county since Oct. 12.

The number of active cases has dropped 49 to 340. This is the lowest number of active cases in the county since Oct. 13 registered 338 cases.

The county is reporting 5,956 total cases and 5,600 recoveries according to the new dashboard.

The five-day average continues to trend down, dropping to 43 Monday from a weekend spike of 52 on both Saturday and Sunday.

The health department is reporting another near record high number of hospitalizations. The department is reporting 90 hospitalizations, the record is 91 set one week ago on Oct. 19.

Boone County residents make up 20-percent of all hospitalizations.

The county is reporting 31 patients in the ICU and 15 of them are on ventilators.

According to the Boone County COVID-19 Information Hub, there are still no issues with hospitals.

The CPS 14-day rate has gone up slightly to 40.9, the highest its been since Sept. 29.

The district has been slightly up since Oct. 14 but remained in the 39 to 41 range for the last week.

Multiple mid-Missouri counties reporting deaths due to coronavirus

UPDATE 4:21 P.M.: Randolph, Moniteau and Osage County are all reporting one COVID-19 death per county as they all update new information for their counties.

The Osage County Health Department is reporting one new death releated to the novel coronavirus.

According to county officials, Osage County COVID-19 cases have almost quadrupled in the last month.

Kim Sallin with the department wrote on Facebook, Osage county last week was leading the state in number of cases per population.

The county is reporting 517 total cases, 90 active cases and 425 recoveries.

The department is reporting they hired new staff and are working tirelessly to get to all the cases.

The department is reporting that tomorrow, contact tracers from the Department of Health and Senior Services will be aiding the Osage County Health Department in our investigations as the current volume is simply too great for our staff to handle in a timely fashion.

The majority of the county’s recent cases in the last month have contracted the virus as a result of large events or gatherings…