Chelan-Douglas Health District Explains Why
Information released by CDHD
Chelan-Douglas Health District has received requests to disclose the city or even neighborhood of patients testing positive for the COVID-19 virus. We might do this if it would tell you anything useful, but in fact it does not. There are more cases of COVID out there than testing can identify. This is partly because many COVID cases have few symptoms, or none at all. But those unknowable cases are still contagious. So if you want to know whether your town or neighborhood has COVID cases, the answer is almost certainly yes. Whatever you would do if you knew a confirmed COVID patient lived nearby, we hope you are doing now anyway. An absence of cases in a neighborhood could give people a false sense of security. That is why Chelan-Douglas Health District does not release information of this kind on individual cases during the early part of a local outbreak.
We urge you to STAY HOME – STAY HEALTHY – STAY SAFE.
Case counts will be updated daily at 5:00 p.m.
Total Lab-Confirmed Cases for Chelan-Douglas Health District: 22
POSITIVE CASES BY COUNTY OF RESIDENCE
Chelan County: 17
Douglas County: 5
DEATHS BY COUNTY OF RESIDENCE
Chelan County: 2
Douglas County: 0
For state-wide counts visit: Washington State Department of Health
For world-wide counts visit: Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University (JHU)
Please note, these numbers reflect Chelan and Douglas County residents only. As a regional health care center, residents from other counties may come to Chelan County for treatment and may be included in counts by health care providers that are different from those of the Chelan-Douglas Health District.
General Information
COVID-19 was first identified in China in December 2019 and has since spread to other countries. There are now cases in the U.S. – including cases throughout Chelan and Douglas Counties. The following links will help you learn more about COVID-19:
