Contra Costa is now reporting 530 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 19 more than yesterday.
The county has also confirmed there have been 11 coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa (two more than yesterday).
Below is a city-by-city breakdown of coronavirus cases for Contra Costa County:
In the U.S., according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine, 521,457 people in the U.S. have coronavirus, 29,347 have recovered, and 20,126 have died.
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If you remove the 27 from the Orinda care home, Orinda would have 5 cases like Moraga and their per-100,000 number would be 30 instead of 177. Without universal testing the numbers are dubious. It would be unwise to come to any judgments based on those numbers.
Thank you!
Kindly change your name from “Anonymous” to “Voice of Reason”.
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One of the things that can be confusing about these numbers is that the county is adjusting previously reported numbers as test results come back and data gets double-checked. For example, yesterday the county said there were 49 new cases of COVID-19 on April 3rd. Today it’s reported as 47 cases that day. That causes the total number of cases from that point on out to drop by 2. This throws off Claycord’s report. Today Claycord reported 19 more cases today than the number Claycord had yesterday. The county is 21 more than the number they had yesterday.
The number of tests per day continue to run at about 200. I’m guessing the county is satisfied with that number. The numbers for the past week have been:
317 on Sat 04/04/2020
348 on Sun 04/05/2020
234 on Mon 04/06/2020
193 on Tue 04/07/2020
286 on Wed 04/08/2020
403 on Thu 04/09/2020 – I suspect this spike was the testing of the staff and residents of the senior facility in Pleasant Hill
218 on Fri 04/10/2020
The number in the hospital are up a little. Unfortunately, the number not as useful as it could be as the county does not release the number of people that have recovered. We have no idea how many of the 530 are active cases and from that could see if the percentage of those cases that are in the hospital is changing. Ideally, there would be day by day demographics for number of cases that are asymptomatic, symptomatic but at home, in the hospital, and in the ICU both for active cases and the ones that have recovered.
Actually, Orinda’s per-100,000 number would be about 28. My bad.
Good to see that the hospitalization numbers are growing at a slow and steady rate, not spiking. It’s been between thirty and thirty five for several days at least, if I recall correctly. Let’s hold firm, keep it under control, and build the capacity to test/trace/treat it well enough to start returning to more parts of normal life as soon as possible.
Concord has a ton of senior care facilities. We need to lock them down like Fort Knox.
Outside of the periodic spikes in illness and death at senior care facilities, Contra Costa numbers are low and stable. Have been that way for two weeks now. Time to start loosening up the shelter in place and time to let more people go back to work! People can keep safe distances and/or use masks while traveling on BART and at work. We can do this!
They already are locked down. My mom lives in one. They eliminated all visits. Only essential doctor visits. No entertainment, hair cuts, etc…Meals in your room instead of the dining room. She had masks from a previous illness and gave all but a couple to the staff. My guess is that the virus will make it in there eventually.
Ummm no, you can’t and shouldn’t do business as usual. That will cause more illness and death. Shut down the virus first. Protect the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Then, and only then should we send people back to work. Stop the talk that risks lives. You sound like tRump. His decision-making has already killed enough!
we’re not going to shutdown the virus. The government wants to hold up therapies in red tape for who knows how long. We don’t have unlimited time and poverty is far more deadly than sars-cov-2.
Hydroxychloroquine and zinc is proving highly efficacious according to the Doctors using it and we already known its safe. I don’t know why we need to hold up endorsing hydroxychloroquine as a therapy until we run it through more clinical trials when it’s already a highly tested drug.
@Pat, SHAME ON YOU!!!
World news agencies as of today are reporting that 100,000 people globally have died “due to” Covid19, yet the CDC admits that alleged cases are just that, “alleged,” with no needed confirmation that deaths are due to the Covid19 virus and could simply be due to colds, flu and other illnesses, etc. Also, these same news agencies are also reporting that 67% of test-kits give a false-positive reading. Another fact: Each year between 660,000 and 1.5 million people die due to regular flu viruses yet, city streets are not empty, restaurants and other businesses are not closed, millions of people are not unemployed, sporting and music events, etc. are not cancelled or closed nor are family members with elderly loved-ones kept away from the senior living centers or hospitals where they reside. So why is Covid19 allowed to do all that I describe above? Please….WAKE-UP, people! You have been duped so our local, state and federal agencies can usher in more control through draconian measures–and soon laws– to further control you.
Well stated, Peter.
@ Peter
Be careful your tinfoil helmet may be too tight.
Preach. Plagues killed millions. Population is billions. Sucks to say but the world will survive with 500000 deaths just fine. Congress only cares because they are ALL at risk demographics
@Peter Johnson – The city of New York’s previous peak for number of deaths in a month was 7,010 in September 2001. 2,996 of those died in the 9/11 attack. They had 9,780 deaths from all causes in March 2020 and will have more than that in April 2020. This is not your typical flu season. COVID-19 is more contagious and more deadly than the flu. That’s why there has been a worldwide effort to contain it and/or to slow it down.
Hard to fathom.
New York lost 783 lives over the last 24 hours, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at his daily news briefing on Saturday
@Peter
When do you think will be the first day you will not respond about flu deaths?
it’s also ironic that you said COVID deaths are alleged but also stating as fact the flu death total. I literally have never met a person who has died because of the flu.
Does this suck? Yes.
Do you you humor me daily on your inability to understand why the projection numbers have gone down? Yes.
Projections are what happens if people didn’t take the disease seriously. By shutting things down it limited the spread dramatically which also made it easier for hospitals to treat near death patients and help them recover. If we went back to work and resumed activities the spread would ramp up again and we are back to square 1.
Thanks JJ for your common sense post. Some people just don’t get it, refusing to focus on saving lives.
@James Johnson you need to educate yourself on the flu.
There’s no reasoning with Peter.
Finished my grocery shopping today. There are so many people out you’d never know anything was wrong if so many weren’t wearing masks. A lot aren’t.
Sorry, I’ll make sure to look more freaked out next time I go grocery shopping.
Many are dying.
Many many more will be homeless in the near future. Saving several thousand has ruined the lives of millions. This country will take years to recover. Several thousand cases and deaths in the hundreds? This is a catastrophe in the way it was handled. People die. Disease happens. Staying clean and safe, washing hands is a way of life. It is not something that will pass, or should not have been anyway.
Congratulations on ruining homes, retirements, businesses and lives.
I hope all that stayed home and did nothing lose as much in the future as many did immediately.
On this day in 1955, the polio vaccine was deemed “safe, effective, and potent” by Jonas Salk
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