COVID-19 In Bucks County: More Data Reporting Discontinued, Transmission Low

BUCKS COUNTY, PA — With the CDC transmission level for Bucks County still designated as low, the county announced that it will no longer provide weekly dispatches on COVID-19 hospitalizations, positivity rates, and deaths in Bucks.

The county has been delivering a COVID-19 update for much of the pandemic, but recently stopped reporting new case totals weekly after the Bucks County Health Department discontinued its reporting by municipality.

The health department said this choice came in part from the high volume of at-home tests being taken. The county continues to update its COVID-19 dashboard with state-level data, per its news releases.

On Saturday, the dashboard showed that the local seven-day case average per 100,000 people was 39.7, an increase of 7.1 from last week.

But the percent positivity rate had continued to decrease according to the final update Friday, which said Bucks County had a 2.5 percent positivity rate between March 3 and 10. The prior week's positivity rate was 2.9 percent.

Hospitalizations continued to decrease in this period too, according to the county update.

Twenty nine patients were in Bucks County hospitals with COVID-19 on Friday, a decrease of 18 from the prior week. Of those patients, five were on ventilators. This number that has remained the same in recent weeks.

While the county will no longer provide its weekly update, Patch will continue to monitor COVID-19 cases in Bucks County — using the COVID-19 dashboard, CDC data, and state-level data — and provide updates on any notable changes.

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