Ada County’s COVID average drops; long-term care facilities see decrease in active cases
Ada County’s 14-day moving average of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 dropped below 50 cases per day on Friday for the first time since late June.
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare added 39 new confirmed cases in Ada County for a 14-day average of 48.7 cases per day. Ada County was last below 50 cases per day on June 24.
The state’s seven health districts reported a combined 287 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Friday, increasing the state’s total to 32,538 cases since the start of the pandemic. With seven new deaths from COVID-19 announced on Friday, the statewide death toll grew to 414. Ada County added two new deaths (140 total), while Bonneville, Canyon, Kootenai, Madison and Minidoka counties each reported one fatality.
Eastern Idaho Public Health said the Bonneville County death was a male in his 90s, and the first death in Madison County was a female in her 80s. According to updated demographics for four of the other deaths on Health and Welfare’s website, one was in their 60s and three were 80 or older.
In addition to Ada County, eight other counties saw their caseloads increase by double figures: Bannock (13 new, 812 total), Bonneville (58 new, 1,759 total), Canyon (31 new, 7,216 total), Gem (10 new, 229 total), Jefferson (11 new, 341 total), Kootenai (12 new, 2,314 total), Nez Perce (21 new, 346 total) and Twin Falls (15 new, 1,668 total).
The other counties reporting new confirmed cases Friday were Bingham (4 new, 674 total), Boise (2 new, 52 total), Bonner (7 new, 238 total), Butte (1 new, 29 total), Caribou (6 new, 63 total), Clark (1 new, 20 total), Custer (9 new, 44 total), Franklin (2 new, 66 total), Fremont (3 new, 120 total), Gooding (1 new, 212 total), Idaho (3 new, 53 total), Jerome (4 new, 597 total), Latah (6 new, 264 total), Lewis (2 new, 11 total), Lincoln (2 new, 67 total), Madison (9 new, 266 total), Minidoka (1 new, 544 total), Owyhee (1 new, 287 total), Payette (3 new, 669 total), Power (4 new, 174 total), Shoshone (2 new, 206 total), Teton (2 new, 122 total) and Washington (2 new, 296 total).
There are an additional 2,722 probable cases statewide (48 new). The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare estimated Friday that of those infected, 18,052 people are presumed recovered.
Long-term care update
Health and Welfare released its weekly update on COVID-19 in long-term care facilities Friday.
Outbreaks at Idaho facilities increased by four to 162 overall, total individual cases jumped by 105 to 2,297 cases, and deaths rose by 15 to 227, with two new facilities recording a death.
Active cases decreased to 1,629 at 77 facilities — down from 1,711 at 94 facilities last week. There are 85 facilities with resolved outbreaks.
Below is a list of long-term care facilities by city that have active cases of the coronavirus:
Ammon: Gables Assisted Living of Ammon; Bellevue: Cove of Cascadia; Blackfoot: Willows Retirement & Assisted Living; Boise: Shaw Mountain of Cascadia, Terraces of Boise, Life Care of Boise, Edgewood Spring Creek-Overland, Cascadia of Boise, Garden Plaza of Valley View-Valley View Nursing & Rehab, Garden Plaza of Valley View-The Bridge at Valley View, Overland Court Senior Living, Willow Park Senior Living, Arbor Village at Hillcrest, Arbor Valley of Cascadia, Life Care of Treasure Valley, Trinity Assisted Living, Grace Memory Care, Veranda Senior Living-Barber Station, MorningStar Memory Care at Englefield Green, Good Samaritan Society-Boise Village, Brookdale Boise Parkcenter, Grace Assisted Living at State St., Avamere Transitional Care, Park Place Assisted Living of Boise;
Burley: Mini Cassia Care Center; Caldwell: Canyon West of Cascadia, Grace Assisted Living, Lenity Senior Living; Challis: Diamond Peak Health Care of Challis; Coeur d’Alene: Ivy Court, Garden at Orchard Ridge, Lacrosse Health & Rehab; Eagle: Paramount Parks; Emmett: Apple Valley Residence; Fruitland: Edgewood Spring Creek Fruitland; Garden City: Emerson House at Riverpointe; Homedale: Owyhee Health & Rehab; Idaho Falls: Gables Assisted Living of Idaho Falls, Tambree Meadows Assisted Living; Jerome: Desano Place; Kellogg: Mountain Valley of Cascadia;
Kimberly: Oak Creek; Lewiston: The Orchards, State Veterans Home-Lewiston; Meridian: Creekside Transitional Care, Touchmark at Meadow Lake Village, Copper Springs Senior Living, Aspen Transitional Rehab, Edgewood Spring Creek Meridian, Golden Years Oak Crest, The Cottages-Meridian, Veranda Senior Living-Paramount; Moscow: Good Samaritan Society-Moscow Village; Nampa: Orchards of Cascadia, Meadow View Nursing & Rehab, Aging Gracefully, Sunny Ridge, Wellspring of Cascadia, Heron Place, Streamside Assisted Living, Cascadia of Nampa, CommuniCare No. 7, Communicare No. 1 Gem, Grace Assisted Living-Nampa;
Payette: The Cottages-Payette, Royal Villa Care Center; Pocatello: Brookdale Pocatello, Quail Ridge; Post Falls: Guardian Angel Homes, Life Care of Post Falls, The Bridge at Post Falls; Rupert: Countryside Care and Rehab; Shoshone: Lincoln County Care Center; Silverton: Good Samaritan Society-Silver Wood Village; Twin Falls: Grace Assisted Living-Twin Falls, Brookdale Twin Falls; Weiser: Weiser Care of Cascadia, Communicare No. 6 Weiser.
DAILY DETAILS
Overall hospitalizations: Health and Welfare reports that there have been 1,569 hospitalizations of people with COVID-19, 412 admissions to the ICU and 2,348 health care workers infected. Hospital and health care numbers are based on cases with completed investigations into contacts, not the full number of positives.
St. Luke’s Health System: As of Sept. 10, the health system was reporting 29 patients in its hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 out of 468 patients overall. The health system reported a 14-day coronavirus test positivity rate of 7%.
Saint Alphonsus Health System: As of Sept. 10, the health system was reporting 31 patients in its hospitals with confirmed COVID-19 out of 389 patients overall. The health system reported a 14-day coronavirus test positivity rate of 13.1%.
Boise School District: The district says the following schools have reported confirmed COVID-19 cases among students or staff since Aug. 17: Adams Elementary (2 cases), Boise Online School (1), Borah High (3), Hillcrest Elementary (1), Maple Grove Elementary (1), Roosevelt Elementary (1) and West Junior High (1).
Testing totals: At the end of the day Friday, Health and Welfare reported that 272,888 tests had been completed statewide. About 11.9% of those have been positive for COVID-19.
Counties with confirmed COVID-19 cases: Ada 10,981, Adams 25, Bannock 812, Bear Lake 42, Benewah 124, Bingham 674, Blaine 590, Boise 52, Bonner 238, Bonneville 1,759, Boundary 45, Butte 29, Camas 3, Canyon 7,216, Caribou 63, Cassia 541, Clark 20, Clearwater 25, Custer 44, Elmore 250, Franklin 66, Fremont 120, Gem 229, Gooding 212, Idaho 53, Jefferson 341, Jerome 597, Kootenai 2,314, Latah 264, Lemhi 54, Lewis 11, Lincoln 67, Madison 266, Minidoka 544, Nez Perce 346, Oneida 19, Owyhee 287, Payette 669, Power 174, Shoshone 206, Teton 122, Twin Falls 1,668, Valley 80, Washington 296.
Counties with community spread: All counties but Adams, Butte, Camas and Franklin have been announced to have community spread.
