March 11 update: Centre County reports 36 new COVID-19 cases, adds 1,526 vaccine doses
Centre County added 36 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, which brings the total to 13,257. Overall, there have been 12,140 confirmed cases and 1,117 probable cases along with 62,458 negative tests.
The state Department of Health continues to list 213 deaths in the county.
Mount Nittany Medical Center is treating 13 COVID-19 patients between ages 51 and 90, a spokesperson said Thursday. That’s an increase of two patients from Wednesday’s update.
Statewide, hospitalizations have been essentially flat. The average number of hospitalized patients is about 4,400 fewer than at the peak in December and is also below the high reached last spring.
Statewide, an additional 115,000 vaccine doses were administered. There have been 3.24 million doses given to 2.18 million people.
An additional 1,526 doses were given to Centre County residents. There have been 30,251 first/single doses and 17,901 second doses.
Pennsylvania’s daily case totals haven’t topped 4,000 in almost a month. With 2,652 new cases reported Thursday, the state has had a total of 958,382. There have been 3.97 million negative tests and 92% of people have recovered statewide.
There have been 24,490 deaths, an increase of 51.
The breakdown of confirmed Centre County cases by ZIP code, and the change from the previous days (if any), is as follows, according to the Health Department:
- 16801 (State College): 4,704 (+8)
- 16823 (Bellefonte/Pleasant Gap): 2,223 (+3)
- 16803 (State College): 1,167 (+7)
- 16686 (Tyrone): 932 (+2)
- 16802 (University Park): 875 (+6)
- 16866 (Philipsburg): 759 (+5)
- 16870 (Port Matilda): 397 (+2)
- 16841 (Howard): 340
- 16845 (Karthaus): 255 (+1)
- 16828 (Centre Hall): 244 (+1)
- 16827 (Boalsburg): 236 (+1)
- 16875 (Spring Mills): 231
- 16822 (Beech Creek): 174
- 16844 (Julian): 173
- 16666 (Osceola Mills): 153 (+2)
- 16853 (Milesburg): 116
- 16877 (Warriors Mark): 97 (+1)
- 16874 (Snow Shoe): 96
- 16865 (Pennsylvania Furnace): 75 (+1)
- 16826 (Blanchard): 66
- 16854 (Millheim): 59
- 16829 (Clarence): 56
- 16872 (Rebersburg): 53
- 16851 (Lemont): 48 (+1)
- 16820 (Aaronsburg): 47
- 16859 (Moshannon): 42
- 16856 (Mingoville): 28
- 16868 (Pine Grove Mills): 26
- 16832 (Coburn): 24
- 16677 (Sandy Ridge): 22
- 16860 (Munson): 20
- 16852 (Madisonburg): 17
- 16864 (Orviston): 13
- 16835 (Unionville): 11
- 16804 (State College): 8
- 16882 (Woodward): 8
- 16805 (State College): 1-4
The state does not provide specific numbers when there are fewer than five cases to protect patient privacy, and does not identify exactly where a case occurred in a ZIP code that spans multiple counties.
Three new cases were reported in employees of nursing/personal care homes in Centre County along with one new resident case. There have been 712 resident cases, 151 employee cases and 162 deaths in 17 long-term care facilities.
This story was originally published March 11, 2021 at 12:11 PM with the headline "March 11 update: Centre County reports 36 new COVID-19 cases, adds 1,526 vaccine doses."