Data suggest the Omicron wave is receding in Shelby County.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases reported by the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) has fallen by 480 in the last week. That figure was 2,321 last Wednesday, January 12th. The figure reported this morning (Wednesday, January 19th) was 1,841. This means the county is averaging hundreds of fewer Covid cases almost every day.
Data show a quick fall in new cases based on the day their samples were collected. New Covid cases based on samples taken on New Year’s Day show a pandemic-record high of 2,625.
The number fell to 2,613 on the next day and has continued to fall (with some slight increases) to 1,813 new cases recorded last Wednesday, according to the latest data from the health department.
The average rates of new positive tests are falling, too. More than 43 percent of all tests given in Shelby County the last week of December 2021 resulted in a positive Covid case, a pandemic record. That number fell in the first week of January to about 36 percent, according to the latest data from the SCHD.
