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Darke County, Ohio Covid Case and Risk Tracker

Tracking Coronavirus in Darke County, Ohio: Latest Map and Case Count

We have published redesigned tracking pages to better reflect the current state of the pandemic. See the new pages here, and read this story to learn more about this change.

New reported cases

Apr. 2020
Oct.
Apr. 2021
Oct.
Apr. 2022
Oct.
50
100
150 cases
7-day average
4

Test positivity rate

Apr. 2020 Mar. 2023

Hospitalized

Apr. 2020 Mar. 2023

Deaths

Apr. 2020 Mar. 2023
Daily Avg. on Mar. 23 Per 100,000 14-Day Change
Cases 4 7 –7%
Test positivity 3.5% –64%
Hospitalized 48 6 –36%
Deaths <1 <1
About this data Sources: State and local health agencies (cases, deaths); U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (hospitalizations, test positivity). Cases and test positivity charts show 7-day averages. Deaths charts show 30-day averages. Hospitalization data is a weekly average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Darke County.

Hospitals

Share of I.C.U. beds occupied
75%
85%
95%
No data
About this data The map shows the average I.C.U. occupancy at nearby hospitals in the most recent week with data reported. The data is self-reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by individual hospitals. It excludes counts from hospitals operated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Indian Health Service. Numbers for hospitalized patients are based on inpatient beds and include I.C.U. beds. Hospitalized Covid-19 patients include both confirmed and suspected Covid-19 patients.

Vaccinations

Fully vaccinated With a booster
All ages
41%
21%
65 and up
81%
57%

See more details ›

1% of vaccinations statewide did not specify the person’s home county.

About this data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state governments, U.S. Census Bureau.

Latest trends

  • The community level of Covid-19 in Darke County is medium based on cases and hospitalizations, according to the most recent update from the C.D.C. on March 23. Read more about the C.D.C.’s recommendations here.
  • The number of hospitalized Covid patients has fallen in the Darke County area. Deaths have remained at about the same level.
  • The test positivity rate in Darke County is relatively low.
  • An average of 4 cases per day were reported in Darke County, about the same as the average two weeks ago. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 15,147 cases have been reported.
  • Since the beginning of the pandemic, at least 1 in 202 residents have died of Covid-19, a total of 254 reported deaths.

How to read Covid data now

Higher test positivity rates are a sign that many infections are not reported — even if they are tested for at home. This results in a more severe undercount of cases. The number of hospitalized patients with Covid is a more reliable measure because testing is more consistent in hospitals. Read more about the data.

Latest trends

  • The community level of Covid-19 in Darke County is medium based on cases and hospitalizations, according to the most recent update from the C.D.C. on March 23. Read more about the C.D.C.’s recommendations here.
  • The number of hospitalized Covid patients has fallen in the Darke County area. Deaths have remained at about the same level.
  • The test positivity rate in Darke County is relatively low.
  • An average of 4 cases per day were reported in Darke County, about the same as the average two weeks ago. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 15,147 cases have been reported.
  • Since the beginning of the pandemic, at least 1 in 202 residents have died of Covid-19, a total of 254 reported deaths.

How to read Covid data now

Higher test positivity rates are a sign that many infections are not reported — even if they are tested for at home. This results in a more severe undercount of cases. The number of hospitalized patients with Covid is a more reliable measure because testing is more consistent in hospitals. Read more about the data.

Vaccinations

Fully vaccinated With a booster
All ages
41%
21%
65 and up
81%
57%

See more details ›

1% of vaccinations statewide did not specify the person’s home county.

About this data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state governments, U.S. Census Bureau.

How trends have changed in Darke County

New reported cases by day
Apr. 2020
Oct.
Apr. 2021
Oct.
Apr. 2022
Oct.
50
100
150 cases
7-day average
4
Test positivity rate
Apr. 2020
Oct.
Apr. 2021
Oct.
Apr. 2022
Oct.
10%
20%
30% positive
7-day average
0
Hospitalized Covid-19 patients in the Darke County area
Apr. 2020
Oct.
Apr. 2021
Oct.
Apr. 2022
Oct.
200
400 hospitalized
7-day average
0
New reported deaths by day
Apr. 2020
Oct.
Apr. 2021
Oct.
Apr. 2022
Oct.
5
10 deaths
30-day average
0

These are days with a reporting anomaly. Read more here.

About this data Sources: State and local health agencies (cases, deaths); U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (hospitalizations, test positivity). Cases and test positivity charts show 7-day averages. Deaths charts show 30-day averages. Hospitalization data is a weekly average of Covid-19 patients in hospital service areas that intersect with Darke County.

Average cases per capita in Darke County

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This calendar shows data through 2022 and will no longer be updated in 2023. The Times will continue to report the data for other displays on this page.

About the data

In data for Ohio, The Times primarily relies on reports from the state. The state releases new data once a week. It released daily deaths data until March 2021 and daily cases data until March 2022. The state reports cases and deaths based on a person’s permanent or usual residence.

The Times has identified reporting anomalies or methodology changes in the data.

More about reporting anomalies or changes
  • Jan. 4, 2023: The Times is using C.D.C. data based on death certificates for locations that do not report deaths regularly or comprehensively. The federal data updates approximately once a month and appears as a spike in deaths on the day it updates.
  • Nov. 11, 2022: The Times began including death certificate data reconciled by the C.D.C., resulting in a one-day increase in total deaths.
  • Jan. 1, 2022: Ohio did not announce new cases and deaths on New Year's Day.
  • Dec. 25, 2021: Ohio did not announce new cases and deaths for the Christmas holiday.
  • Dec. 14, 2021: Ohio added a backlog of about 1,725 cases dating back to September 2021.
  • Nov. 25, 2021: Ohio did not announce new cases and deaths for the Thanksgiving holiday.
  • July 19, 2021: Ohio added cases from recent weeks after resolving a technical issue.
  • March 5, 2021 to March 8, 2021: Ohio added more than 400 deaths of residents who died out of state.
  • March 2, 2021: Ohio changed its methodology for reporting coronavirus deaths to use death certificates, resulting in a one-time decrease.
  • Feb. 13, 2021: Ohio added about 1,125 deaths from recent months.
  • Feb. 12, 2021: Ohio added about 2,500 deaths from recent months.
  • Feb. 11, 2021: Ohio added about 650 deaths from recent months.
  • Jan. 2, 2021: Ohio reported data for two days after reporting no data on New Year's Day.
  • Dec. 26, 2020: Ohio reported data for Dec. 25 and 26 after reporting no data on Christmas.
  • Dec. 8, 2020: Ohio announced a backlog of cases identified through antigen testing.
  • Nov. 27, 2020: Ohio reported data for Nov. 26 and Nov. 27 after reporting no data on Thanksgiving.
  • Sept. 15, 2020: Ohio added many deaths that occurred weeks earlier.

The tallies on this page include probable and confirmed cases and deaths.

Confirmed cases and deaths, which are widely considered to be an undercount of the true toll, are counts of individuals whose coronavirus infections were confirmed by a molecular laboratory test. Probable cases and deaths count individuals who meet criteria for other types of testing, symptoms and exposure, as developed by national and local governments.

Governments often revise data or report a single-day large increase in cases or deaths from unspecified days without historical revisions, which can cause an irregular pattern in the daily reported figures. The Times is excluding these anomalies from seven-day averages when possible. For agencies that do not report data every day, variation in the schedule on which cases or deaths are reported, such as around holidays, can also cause an irregular pattern in averages. The Times uses an adjustment method to vary the number of days included in an average to remove these irregularities.

Credits

By Jordan Allen, Sarah Almukhtar, Aliza Aufrichtig, Anne Barnard, Matthew Bloch, Penn Bullock, Sarah Cahalan, Weiyi Cai, Julia Calderone, Keith Collins, Matthew Conlen, Lindsey Cook, Gabriel Gianordoli, Amy Harmon, Rich Harris, Adeel Hassan, Jon Huang, Danya Issawi, Danielle Ivory, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Alex Lemonides, Eleanor Lutz, Allison McCann, Richard A. Oppel Jr., Jugal K. Patel, Alison Saldanha, Kirk Semple, Shelly Seroussi, Julie Walton Shaver, Amy Schoenfeld Walker, Anjali Singhvi, Charlie Smart, Mitch Smith, Albert Sun, Rumsey Taylor, Lisa Waananen Jones, Derek Watkins, Timothy Williams, Jin Wu and Karen Yourish.   ·   Reporting was contributed by Jeff Arnold, Ian Austen, Mike Baker, Brillian Bao, Ellen Barry, Shashank Bengali, Samone Blair, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Aurelien Breeden, Elisha Brown, Emma Bubola, Maddie Burakoff, Alyssa Burr, Christopher Calabrese, Julia Carmel, Zak Cassel, Robert Chiarito, Izzy Colón, Matt Craig, Yves De Jesus, Brendon Derr, Brandon Dupré, Melissa Eddy, John Eligon, Timmy Facciola, Bianca Fortis, Jake Frankenfield, Matt Furber, Robert Gebeloff, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Matthew Goldstein, Grace Gorenflo, Rebecca Griesbach, Benjamin Guggenheim, Barbara Harvey, Lauryn Higgins, Josh Holder, Jake Holland, Anna Joyce, John Keefe, Ann Hinga Klein, Jacob LaGesse, Alex Lim, Alex Matthews, Patricia Mazzei, Jesse McKinley, Miles McKinley, K.B. Mensah, Sarah Mervosh, Jacob Meschke, Lauren Messman, Andrea Michelson, Jaylynn Moffat-Mowatt, Steven Moity, Paul Moon, Derek M. Norman, Anahad O’Connor, Ashlyn O’Hara, Azi Paybarah, Elian Peltier, Richard Pérez-Peña, Sean Plambeck, Laney Pope, Elisabetta Povoledo, Cierra S. Queen, Savannah Redl, Scott Reinhard, Chloe Reynolds, Thomas Rivas, Frances Robles, Natasha Rodriguez, Jess Ruderman, Kai Schultz, Alex Schwartz, Emily Schwing, Libby Seline, Rachel Sherman, Sarena Snider, Brandon Thorp, Alex Traub, Maura Turcotte, Tracey Tully, Jeremy White, Kristine White, Bonnie G. Wong, Tiffany Wong, Sameer Yasir and John Yoon.   ·   Data acquisition and additional work contributed by Will Houp, Andrew Chavez, Michael Strickland, Tiff Fehr, Miles Watkins, Josh Williams, Nina Pavlich, Carmen Cincotti, Ben Smithgall, Andrew Fischer, Rachel Shorey, Blacki Migliozzi, Alastair Coote, Jaymin Patel, John-Michael Murphy, Isaac White, Steven Speicher, Hugh Mandeville, Robin Berjon, Thu Trinh, Carolyn Price, James G. Robinson, Phil Wells, Yanxing Yang, Michael Beswetherick, Michael Robles, Nikhil Baradwaj, Ariana Giorgi, Bella Virgilio, Dylan Momplaisir, Avery Dews, Bea Malsky, Ilana Marcus, Sean Cataguni and Jason Kao.

About the data

In data for Ohio, The Times primarily relies on reports from the state. The state releases new data once a week. It released daily deaths data until March 2021 and daily cases data until March 2022. The state reports cases and deaths based on a person’s permanent or usual residence.

The Times has identified reporting anomalies or methodology changes in the data.

More about reporting anomalies or changes
  • Jan. 4, 2023: The Times is using C.D.C. data based on death certificates for locations that do not report deaths regularly or comprehensively. The federal data updates approximately once a month and appears as a spike in deaths on the day it updates.
  • Nov. 11, 2022: The Times began including death certificate data reconciled by the C.D.C., resulting in a one-day increase in total deaths.
  • Jan. 1, 2022: Ohio did not announce new cases and deaths on New Year's Day.
  • Dec. 25, 2021: Ohio did not announce new cases and deaths for the Christmas holiday.
  • Dec. 14, 2021: Ohio added a backlog of about 1,725 cases dating back to September 2021.
  • Nov. 25, 2021: Ohio did not announce new cases and deaths for the Thanksgiving holiday.
  • July 19, 2021: Ohio added cases from recent weeks after resolving a technical issue.
  • March 5, 2021 to March 8, 2021: Ohio added more than 400 deaths of residents who died out of state.
  • March 2, 2021: Ohio changed its methodology for reporting coronavirus deaths to use death certificates, resulting in a one-time decrease.
  • Feb. 13, 2021: Ohio added about 1,125 deaths from recent months.
  • Feb. 12, 2021: Ohio added about 2,500 deaths from recent months.
  • Feb. 11, 2021: Ohio added about 650 deaths from recent months.
  • Jan. 2, 2021: Ohio reported data for two days after reporting no data on New Year's Day.
  • Dec. 26, 2020: Ohio reported data for Dec. 25 and 26 after reporting no data on Christmas.
  • Dec. 8, 2020: Ohio announced a backlog of cases identified through antigen testing.
  • Nov. 27, 2020: Ohio reported data for Nov. 26 and Nov. 27 after reporting no data on Thanksgiving.
  • Sept. 15, 2020: Ohio added many deaths that occurred weeks earlier.

The tallies on this page include probable and confirmed cases and deaths.

Confirmed cases and deaths, which are widely considered to be an undercount of the true toll, are counts of individuals whose coronavirus infections were confirmed by a molecular laboratory test. Probable cases and deaths count individuals who meet criteria for other types of testing, symptoms and exposure, as developed by national and local governments.

Governments often revise data or report a single-day large increase in cases or deaths from unspecified days without historical revisions, which can cause an irregular pattern in the daily reported figures. The Times is excluding these anomalies from seven-day averages when possible. For agencies that do not report data every day, variation in the schedule on which cases or deaths are reported, such as around holidays, can also cause an irregular pattern in averages. The Times uses an adjustment method to vary the number of days included in an average to remove these irregularities.