Last year I looked at COVID mortality and County Health Rankings (CHR) numbers for the whole state of PA. This year, the state does not make cumulative mortality numbers readily available. This makes updating the numbers subject to copying error. For this year, I thought I would focus on ten county region surrounding Cambria County. […]

Group Cambria County Pennsylvania U.S. Overall 75.8 78.1 77.3 White 76.1 78.4 77.6 African American 66.9 73.3 71.8 Hispanic 97.1 82.2 78.8   Two weeks ago I wrote about the new County Health Ranking (CHR) numbers for this year in Cambria County. As before, there was a big discrepancy in life expectancy between African Americans, […]

The 2022 County Health Rankings for every county in the U.S. were released this week. Cambria County’s Health Outcomes rank is 62nd out of 67 counties in Pennsylvania. This ranking is a composite of length of life measures (63rd out of 67 counties) and quality of life measures (60th out of 67 counties).    There […]

I stayed away from the Coronavirus as long as I could.  The news in Cambria County has recently been mostly good. The height of the omicron surge was January 16 when the 7 day average for new cases was 337.29 cases per day.  Today it is 43.14 per day, the lowest it has been since […]

Last month I posted on which county health ranking variables were most strongly correlated with COVID case mortality rates.  Granted these posts were made just as the omicron variant was arriving on the scene.  This month, I thought I would take a look at which variables were the best predictors of full vaccination rates.  Full […]

   This week Anthony Fauci reported on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulus that cases were not as important as hospitalizations and deaths in measuring the severity of the coronavirus pandemic under the omicron variant.  This is because new Omicron variance of COVID-19 is believed to be more contagious but less severe.  With the advent […]

  Last week I posted on COVID Case Mortality and County Health Ranking (CHR) measures.  I also posted that there was a stronger correlation between the health behaviors and Trump’s % of the vote than with COVID case mortality.  This week I will look at which individual county statistics used by CHR are the best predictors […]

Two weeks ago I looked at the correlation between COVID case mortality and Trump’s % of the vote in 2020 for Pennsylvania counties and six sub measures used to determine County Health Rankings.  The measure that was most strongly associated with COVID case mortality was the health behavior z-score (a higher z score is worse) […]

This is the 3rd installment of my posts on case mortality in Pennsylvania.  Before I explained case mortality and looked at counties with the highest rates.  This time I’m looking at which County Health Ranking factors predict COVID Case Mortality at the county level.  This is done to see which health issues occurring in these […]

County Cases Deaths Case Mortality % Cases per death Deaths per 100,000 Rank of Deaths per 100.000 in PA % Fully Vaccinated JUNIATA 3,009 120 3.99% 25.1 484.6 1 36% SULLIVAN 607 24 3.95% 25.3 395.7 6 48% WARREN 4,436 141 3.18% 31.5 359.8 10 41% NORTHUMBERLAND 13,371 409 3.06% 32.7 450.2 3 51% TIOGA […]