NEBRASKA- Nebraska has reached a plateau in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, with both numbers mostly unchanged over recent weeks.

One notable change: The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week added 399 COVID-related deaths that it apparently had not previously counted in Nebraska’s tally. That pushed the federal agency’s death toll for the state to 2,840 for the pandemic, while the state’s count remained at 2,427.

Overall, however, Nebraska continued a monthlong flattening of its summer delta surge.

The state added 4,775 new cases for the week ending Friday. That was slightly above the 4,676 tallied during the previous week but about 10% below the roughly 5,300 the state counted during each of the three prior weeks.

More notable decreases in new cases continued in the state’s most populous counties. Douglas County’s cases have been on a slow decline for the past three weeks. For the week ending Saturday, the county tallied 836 cases, down from 1,004 the week before.

Cases within the Sarpy/Cass Health Department have trended downward from 639 in the last week of August to 265 last week. And the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department, which reinstated an indoor mask mandate Aug. 26, dropped from 1,021 cases the week ending Sept. 3 to 508 cases for the week ending Friday.

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