Oceana County, Michigan, USA COVID-19 data

David Roseman, MD
DLR@Eolas.com
May 13, 2020
updated January 4, 2022

The data for Oceana County are from the District 10 Health Department website. At present, these are shown on page 3 of their dashboard, and are a little bit hard to find. However, their work is greatly appreciated.

Our first case was on March 26, 2020.







The Health Departments data are somwhat different than the CDCs. For example, the CDC shows 342 cases on 7/5/2020, while the Health Department shows 334.

2021-04-07 I could not find data after 4/1 on the DHD website. I called them, and they are now only updating weekly. Given the present uncertainties, this is very unfortunate. They referred me to michigan.gov, but I can only find totals, not daily cases. I suppose I can subtract totals each day, but this seems pretty cumbersome. USAFacts lists daily cases by county, but no tabular data. The NY Times lists daily cases by county, and has a daily news mailing that looks promising.

Here is today's warning from the NYT

"Oceana County is at an extremely high risk level for Covid-19 infections. The average number of new cases in Oceana County fell to 11 yesterday, a 9 percent decrease from the day before. Since January of last year, at least 1 in 13 people who live in Oceana County have been infected, and at least 1 in 519 have died." Their graph allowed me to fill in the blanks after April Fools' Day.[1]

Following are the data for 49449, the Pentwater zip code. Among other things, they raise the question of how cases are assigned geographically.

The population for this zip is 2,484.[1]. As of March 26, 2021, we would have had 4670 cases per 100K population. For comparison, the number for our state is 7,246. [2] and Oceana County is 7,113. Worldwide, this places us between Romania and Ireland. [3]

More data are in the raw data spreadsheet, on the 49449 tab.





The raw data are here.


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