DAILY UPDATE: APRIL 22, 2020 1 PM
STATE: Pennsylvania COVID-19 Statistics per Pennsylvania Department of Health
Data updated as of 12:00pm on 4/22/20
| Positive Cases | Negative Tests | Total Deaths |
| 35,684 | 136,272 | 1,622 |
STATE: Cases by Age Range to Date
per Pennsylvania Department of Health
Data updated as of 12:00pm on 4/22/20
| Age Range | Cases |
| 0-4 | <1% |
| 5-12 | <1% |
| 13-18 | 1% |
| 19-24 | 6% |
| 25-49 | 39% |
| 50-64 | 28% |
| 65+ | 25% |
STATE: Hospitalization Rates by Age Range to Date
per Pennsylvania Department of Health
Data updated as of 12:00pm on 4/22/20
| Age Range | Cases |
| 0-29 | 2% |
| 30-49 | 5% |
| 50-64 | 9% |
| 65-79 | 19% |
| 80+ | 20% |
REGIONAL: COVID-19 cases by county to Date
per Pennsylvania Department of Health
Data updated as of 12:00pm on 4/22/20
| County | Positive Cases | Negative Tests | Deaths | New cases since 4/21 |
New deaths since 4/21 |
| 10-County Region | 2,207 | 23,925 | 165 | +59 | +12 |
| Allegheny | 1,088 | 11,959 | 74 | +29 | +7 |
| Armstrong | 39 | 505 | 2 | +1 | – |
| Beaver | 317 | 1,638 | 47 | +14 | +4 |
| Butler | 164 | 1,876 | 7 | +2 | +1 |
| Fayette | 70 | 1,394 | 3 | +1 | – |
| Greene | 25 | 347 | 0 | – | – |
| Indiana | 56 | 459 | 4 | +1 | – |
| Lawrence | 61 | 550 | 6 | +1 | – |
| Washington | 87 | 1,616 | 2 | +1 | – |
| Westmoreland | 300 | 3,581 | 20 | +9 | – |
State Coronavirus Updates
- Wolf Encourages Voters to Apply for a Mail-in Ballot: As Pennsylvania continues mitigation efforts to fight COVID-19, Governor Tom Wolf is encouraging registered voters to apply for a mail-in ballot for the June 2 primary election. The governor also announced the Department of State has launched an awareness campaign to inform the public about the new primary election date and how to apply for a mail-in ballot, including sending 4.2 million postcards to primary voters. In-person voting at polling places will remain available. Read more: https://dingo.telicon.com/PA/library/2020/2020042275.HTM.
- Department of Health Provides Update on COVID-19, 1,156 Positives Bring Statewide Total to 35,684: The Pennsylvania Department of Health today confirmed as of 12:00 a.m., April 22, that there are 1,156 additional positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the statewide total to 35,684. All 67 counties in Pennsylvania have cases of COVID-19. The department is continuing to work to increase the types of cases that are being added to our death case counts. Today, 58 new deaths are reported among positive and probable cases, bringing the statewide total to 1,622. County-specific information and a statewide map are available here. All people are either in isolation at home or being treated at the hospital. Read more: https://dingo.telicon.com/PA/library/2020/2020042267.HTM.
- Wolf Administration Announces Business Loan Deferrals: Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary Dennis Davin announced that the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA), Pennsylvania Minority Business Development Authority (PMBDA), and Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA) are deferring loans and that the maturity dates and amortization schedules of all applicable loans are extended by three additional calendar months. Read more: https://dingo.telicon.com/PA/library/2020/2020042293.HTM.
Regional Coronavirus Updates
- Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
- The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank has announced an emergency drive-up food distribution at the parking lots of PPG Paints Arena from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday April 24. The food bank is working in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor County and the City of Pittsburgh Police. The organizations plan to serve 2,000 vehicles through this three-hour event. Each vehicle will receive two boxes of food. This is approximately 50 pounds in total. No walk-ups will be permitted.
- Federal courthouses in the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Those entering federal courthouses in the Western District of Pennsylvania will have to wear face coverings, according to an order issued Tuesday April 21 by Chief Judge Mark R. Hornak. Hornak said the order is meant to protect the health and safety of those doing business in the courthouses. Anyone attempting to enter one of the three courthouses — in Pittsburgh, Erie and Johnstown — without a face covering will be stopped by security officers, who will check if the visitor’s business can be handled without entering the building.
- Murrysville
- Murrysville officials are hoping that reducing planning commission meetings from two to one per month will make it easier for the commission to achieve a consistent quorum to conduct business. The seven-member commission was only able to hold one monthly meeting during at least six months of 2019, according to the municipality’s posted planning agendas. Council this week briefly discussed reducing the number of commissioners from seven to five, and potentially adding alternates.
- PublicSource article – Coronavirus will change Pittsburgh, but how? Here are 26 local leaders’ predictions for what’s to come.
- PublicSource reached out to local experts in several fields – Economic Development, Environment & Sustainability, Education, Health Care, Housing & Social Services, Arts, Religion – to get their perspectives on what COVID-19 has changed and how they’re thinking about the future. Respondents were asked three questions about short- and long-term impacts of the coronavirus. Read more: https://projects.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-covid-impacts/
Federal Coronavirus Updates
- U.S. House of Representatives
- A new bill being proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives could allow Americans to forgo their mortgage and rent payments through the duration of the coronavirus crisis in the United States, according to reports. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act on Friday. All Americans would be eligible regardless of income and would provide full rent and mortgage forgiveness at their place of residence for up to a year.
- U.S. Senate
- The Senate approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief package on Tuesday April 21 that would revive a depleted loan program for distressed small businesses and provide funds for hospitals and coronavirus testing, breaking a partisan impasse over the latest infusion of federal money to address the public health and economic crisis brought on by the pandemic. The measure was the product of an intense round of negotiations between Democrats and the Trump administration that unfolded as the small-business loan program created by the $2.2 trillion stimulus law quickly ran out of funding, collapsing under a glut of applications from desperate companies struggling to stay afloat.
National Coronavirus Updates
- According to CNN, as of 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, 2020, there are 45,153 coronavirus-related deaths and 826,248 total positive cases in the United States.
- Officials in Santa Clara County, Calif., announced late Tuesday April 21 that two residents there died of the coronavirus in early and mid-February, making them the earliest known victims of the pandemic in the United States. The new information may shift the timeline of the virus’s spread through the country weeks earlier than previously believed. Dr. Cody said the individuals who died in February did not have any known travel histories that would have exposed them to the virus, which first appeared in China. They are presumed to have contracted the virus in the community, she said.