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DAILY UPDATE: 895 Active Cases Of COVID-19 In Contra Costa County – 51 People Currently Hospitalized

by CLAYCORD.com
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          • 15,958 total cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
          • 224 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday.
          • 895 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
          • 51 COVID-19 patients are currently hospitalized in Contra Costa County.
          • 14,862 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
          • 111 of the 201 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
          • There are currently 16 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
          • There are currently 146 occupied ICU beds in Contra Costa County (both COVID and non-COVID patients). 49 ICU beds are currently available.

CASES BY CITY:

The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.

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20 comments


TraumaRx September 20, 2020 - 1:23 PM - 1:23 PM

The State needs to stop giving out incentives for testing positive! That’s why people want to get infected and just don’t care. Working the broken system! Same people on Section 8 and drive those cars with big rims blasting rap music.

Aunt Barbara September 20, 2020 - 3:31 PM - 3:31 PM

agree. This Gavid19 won’t go away until we let it and move on with life,BUT in a healthier way than before.

Andrew September 20, 2020 - 5:01 PM - 5:01 PM

What does music have to do with anything?

Kirkwood September 20, 2020 - 5:45 PM - 5:45 PM

Andrew – It’s not music. Rap is a drum solo overlaid with some bad poetry.

The Fearless Spectator September 20, 2020 - 5:53 PM - 5:53 PM

That’s not music. An industrial air compressor thumping away sounds better.

S September 20, 2020 - 6:48 PM - 6:48 PM

nothing Andrew, it just paints a picture for the racist at heart…. TR is just a troller… don’t take the bait……

Sam September 20, 2020 - 1:36 PM - 1:36 PM

Everything goes back to normal when Californians rise up and recall the governor and file lawsuits. That’s it, that’s the only way out of this UNCONSTITUTIONAL dictatorship called the “Nation State of California” who has now entered us into the treasonous illegal compact called the “Western States Pact” All YOU have to do is sign the recall and join the lawsuits. Dictators will NEVER give up their power without a court order.

Aunt Barbara September 20, 2020 - 3:33 PM - 3:33 PM

A big class action lawsuit by a powerful Attorney!

ZZ September 20, 2020 - 1:40 PM - 1:40 PM

Blah blah blah,…..oh and blah blah blah blah blahing blahhhhh!

Cellophane September 20, 2020 - 2:17 PM - 2:17 PM

As I’ve said from the beginning, the politicians and tax paid employees will never give up the power they have assumed during this health care incident.

Until the politicians are voted out, and the employees are in jobs that do not let them have power over the people, only then will this debacle end.

an iota of maturity September 20, 2020 - 4:14 PM - 4:14 PM

Two people died. And the positive rate is going up.

Trolly September 20, 2020 - 4:52 PM - 4:52 PM

Lies… Its going down…

Mask September 20, 2020 - 5:01 PM - 5:01 PM

224 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday. This has been going up everyday lately. I wonder why?

Tugboat September 20, 2020 - 5:55 PM - 5:55 PM

Mask, it’s going up because those running The Peoples Republic of California want it to do so. Never let a good crisis go to waste. It’s about the election.

WC Resident September 20, 2020 - 6:38 PM - 6:38 PM

It’s because of bad math. Yesterday’s total was15,835 and today’s is 15,958. That’s 123 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday. Claycord had accidentally subtracted today’s total from the total for two days ago rather than the total from yesterday. 224 cases were added to the total in a span of two days.

While the day to day new-cases is up the number of new cases per day is trending slightly down if you look at the 7-day averages.

Captain Bebops September 21, 2020 - 9:07 AM - 9:07 AM

They’re still using the unreliable PCR tests I bet. Maybe a different story might be told if there were a reliable test. It might even say the virus is about non-existent as one might expect after summer.

I’ve read reports of people getting a bad case of it but with those we often don’t get the state of health that person was in prior. I’ve also read reports from people who “thought” they got a bad case of it but again not verified they truly had it and it could have been anything from food poisoning to a case of the flu.

What I truly object to is the use of fear to control the public. Fortunately some of us are immune to that scam.

WC Resident September 21, 2020 - 9:35 AM - 9:35 AM

PCR tests are the gold standard. They are close to 100% reliable.

Tests offering quick results or cheap results tend to be unreliable.

Despite the summer now nearly being over the virus is still very much here. It did not disappear, despite wishful thinking and aspirational projections by some people.

Age seems to be a larger factor than a person’s prior health when trying to predict the chance of serious complications from COVID-19. Some medical conditions have been identified as increasing the chances of serious complications. See https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html for a list of the conditions. People with those conditions are aware of this and older people with those conditions are very aware of this. The rest of us don’t need to worry about COVID-19 unless you are 50 or above in which case you start paying attention to the odds-by-age table to see where you fit and the precautions you should take.

Captain Bebops September 21, 2020 - 12:08 PM - 12:08 PM

@WC Resident, where are you getting that information that PCR tests are 100% reliable? Even the NY Times had a story on their lack of reliability. Do you not know that the inventor of the said they should not be used this way?

How do you know the virus is very much here? Reading mainstream news? Try reading some published papers and interviews with actual epidemiologists.

Skip the kool-aid next time.

WC Resident September 22, 2020 - 11:22 PM - 11:22 PM

@Captain Bebops – The New York Times simply calls the PCR test “accurate” without providing a number in https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/covid-test-accuracy-governor-dewine-ohio.html

The FDA says “highly accurate” and again without a number. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/coronavirus-testing-basics

This Healthline article says “If performed correctly, RT-PCR swab tests “would be pretty close to 100 percent accurate.” https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-accurate-are-covid-19-diagnostic-and-antibody-tests

PCR technology itself is extremely accurate. I can’t find an article that puts a number to it but I would not be surprised if it’s 99.999% or 99.9999% (five nines or six nines). It’s the same technology used in DNA testing. The occasional false positives happen when someone has recently recovered from COVID-19 but still has fragments of the virus’ DNA in their body. This NY Times article points out an issue with that the test labs likely should be flagging those test results where extra PCR amplification cycles were needed to extract a signal. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

I’ll change my wording to that a PCR test is close to 100% accurate but may not be 100% reliable as the COVID-19 test labs are not always providing enough information from the test results to allow for doctors to properly evaluate the results. I was surprised to read the second NY Times article listed above as I knew the PCR result is a scale where you have both the number of amplification cycles and the quantity of the target DNA that was detected at each cycle. It’s not supposed to be a simple yes you are pregnant style result. PCR remains the gold standard.

anonemoose September 21, 2020 - 9:35 AM - 9:35 AM

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