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On February 17 Cook County Public Health and Human Services reported that the county had received nine new cases of COVID-19 in the prior seven days, bringing the total to 805 since the start of the pandemic.
The data includes specimens collected at North Shore Health, Sawtooth Mountain Clinic and Grand Portage Health Services. The case totals also include over-the-counter antigen positive results that have been reported to Cook County Public Health and Human Services or Grand Portage Health Service. Over-the-counter antigen tests are not reported to the Minnesota Department of Health and therefore aren’t reported in the state data.
Since December 2021, weekly cases of COVID-19 were quickly rising. As of November 11, 2021, there was a reported 293 cases of COVID-19 in Cook County since the start of the pandemic. Three months later the county gained more than 500 new cases.
However, new cases are trending downward, which is good news. The state COVID-19 information site announced late on February 17 that the state’s positivity rate had fallen below ten percent, a high-water mark, for the first time since Christmas.
Still, while the number of cases continues to go down, the county confirmed the death of a resident due to COVID last week, bringing the total to four confirmed deaths attributed to COVID since the start of the pandemic.
Meanwhile our neighbor to the west, Lake County, has had 1,691 confirmed cases of COVID since the start of the pandemic, with 27 deaths.
Cook County has the highest percentage of folks vaccinated in the Arrowhead Region, with 87 percent of the county residents having at least one vaccine.
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