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2020 – 2021
The toll, as the county published it, dated at each step: St. Joseph County's first confirmed COVID-19 death came on 26 March 2020 — a man in his eighties with severe comorbidities, unnamed in the department's release, as every case in this article is a count and not a name; the county then stood at 28 confirmed cases. The department's releases then mark the course: 22 May 2020, 1,083 cases and 37 deaths, 34 of them county residents; 29 May, 1,210 cases and 47 deaths, 44 residents; 15 June, 1,556 cases and 62 deaths, 59 residents. The department's summary data, as of 18 February 2021, give the epidemic's county measure at that date: 29,499 cases and 512 deaths of county residents, 58 percent of the deaths associated with long-term-care facilities. The USAFacts aggregation of the county series, frozen at about July 2023, stands at 70.6 thousand cases and 863 deaths, and is printed as that aggregation at that date, not as a final toll. The March 2020 releases went out over the name of Dr. Mark D. Fox; by 3 May 2020 Dr. Robert M. Einterz was the county's health officer, with Fox his deputy — the succession matters because the orders that follow are Einterz's, and the record is kept straight about whose they were.
Sources
- St. Joseph County Department of Health releases — first death confirmed 26 March 2020 (28 cases then); 22 May 2020 (1,083 cases, 37 deaths, 34 residents); 29 May (1,210, 47, 44); 15 June (1,556, 62, 59); summary data as of 18 February 2021 (29,499 cases; 512 resident deaths; 58 percent long-term-care associated); the Fox-to-Einterz succession (March–3 May 2020).
- USAFacts county aggregation, frozen c. July 2023 — 70.6 thousand cases, 863 deaths; printed as an aggregation at a date.