Coronavirus Case Update: June 6, 2020

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Health, as well as county health districts in the Mahoning Valley, reported 38,111 total cases of COVID-19. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reports 75,086 total cases in the commonwealth.

In Mahoning County, the ODH reports 1,502 cases, with 322 hospitalizations and 194 deaths. Mahoning County is fourth in the state for deaths and eighth in the state for the number of confirmed cases.

The ODH reported 607 cases in Trumbull County with 163 hospitalizations and 53 deaths. In Columbiana County, the ODH reports 894 positive cases, 133 hospitalizations and 53 deaths.

*The Trumbull County Combined Health District 52 deaths and 186 hospitalizations.

Of the total cases reported by ODH, 35,408 are confirmed. ODH reported 2,703 probable cases based on the CDC’s recently expanded case definition. There have been 6,460 hospitalizations and 1,650 patients in the intensive care unit. There have been 2,370 total deaths, which breaks down to 2,148 confirmed deaths and another 222 probable deaths under the CDC expanded diagnosis definition. The median age of those testing positive is 49.

Of those testing positive, 5,676 (15%) are health-care workers. To date, Ohio has conducted 455,823 tests.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported 74,385 total cases, with 1,174 hospitalizations, 257 of whom are on ventilators. Since March 6, there have been 5,931 deaths in Pennsylvania. Of the cases reported, 72,979 are confirmed.

Of all tests conducted in Pennsylvania, 435,122 were reported negative. And of all positive cases, 70% have recovered (If a case has not been reported as a death, and it is more than 30 days past the date of their first positive test [or onset of symptoms] then an individual is considered recovered, according to the health department’s website.)

According to the department’s hospital preparedness dashboard, 1,250 of the commonwealth’s ventilators are being used by COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients.

Mercer County has 111 total cases and six deaths with 1,924 negative tests, while Lawrence County has 84 total cases, eight deaths and 1,615 negative tests.

The figures are updated daily by the Ohio Department of Health at 2 p.m. and Pennsylvania Department of Health at noon.

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