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COVID-19 Daily Update From The Contra Costa County Health Dept.

by CLAYCORD.com
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Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Wednesday March 3, 2021.

All information is from the Contra Costa County Health Dept.:

  • Total cases (since March) – 62,931
  • Recovered cases – 60,804
  • Deaths – 695
  • Total active confirmed cases – 1,432
  • Nursing home deaths – 304
  • 9 active outbreaks in nursing homes

Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:

  • Patients currently hospitalized – 64
  • Occupied ICU beds –  114
  • Available ICU beds – 47

The State will move Contra Costa County to the “Red Tier” once the following three criteria have been met for two consecutive weeks:

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  • Case Rate: Less than 7 new cases per 100,000 residents – (currently 11)
  • Positivity Rate: Less than 8% of tests countywide are positive – (currently 3.3%)
  • Equity Metric: Less than 8% of tests for residents of the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index census tracts are positive – (currently 5.4%)

K-6 School Reopening:

Contra Costa County is currently in the Purple Tier. Schools may not reopen for grades 7-12 while in the Purple Tier. K-6 school may reopen for in-person instruction in the Purple Tier if the adjusted case rate has been less than 25 per 100,000 population (currently 9.0) per day for at least 5 consecutive days (schools can now reopen) and the school has an approved COVID Safety Plan. Local school officials will decide whether and when to reopen once these criteria are met.

25 comments


Dazed and confused March 3, 2021 - 6:51 PM - 6:51 PM

Am i wrong? .001 percent of people in the county have covid?

Wage Slave March 3, 2021 - 7:49 PM - 7:49 PM

According to google, CC county is 1.15 million people. The total cases listed above is almost 63 thousand. That works out to about 5 1/2% of the county has been infected, confirmed.

Now take that number and multiply it by whatever one thinks the actual infection rate is. I have seen as low as twice the confirmed number and as high as ten times, though no one knows for sure. So we are at an actual total infection number of something like 12% to 50% of the county over the last year.

Considering the dropping case rate, I would think it is closer to the high end. Add in the increasing numbers of vaccinated, and it would definitely explain the plummeting case rate. Not enough susceptible population for the virus to keep up its high rate of transmission.

Though I thought the same thing in late spring when rates fell then too, so take all that for what it is worth (less than 2c).

WC Resident March 3, 2021 - 7:55 PM - 7:55 PM

You are wrong in that you moved the decimal point in the wrong direction.

The easiest way to make sure you move the decimal point in the right direction is to use a spreadsheet. Here are four cells from A1 down to A4:
1432
1153526
=A1/A2
=A1/A2
Format A4 as a percentage.

1,432 active cases divided by 1,153,526 current population is 0.0012. Multiply that by 100 to get a percentage. 0.12% of the population is known and confirmed to have COVID-19.

I have been estimating that we know about half of the cases meaning 0.24% of the population has COVID-19. However, the half we know about should be quarantining meaning the rest of us won’t get infected from them. We are still at risk from the half we don’t know about.

Paul Barnes March 3, 2021 - 7:46 PM - 7:46 PM

.12% of the population in CoCo Co. have Covid…Scamdemic….

Tomato Girl March 4, 2021 - 10:31 AM - 10:31 AM

Exactly!

chuckie the troll March 3, 2021 - 7:54 PM - 7:54 PM

Today’s Troll Report:

Had lunch (Chinese) and dinner (meat plus 3) dine-in in my new home state. Masks are for national chains, I don’t see people wearing them when they walk or drive. And the funny thing is…people appear healthy and happy. Oh, and schools are open for full-time, in person instruction. If teachers don’t show up to work, they don’t get paid. Such a novel concept.

Concerned dad March 3, 2021 - 10:47 PM - 10:47 PM

Well enjoy Texas, won’t be long before they shut it down.
Before your comment back my dad passed cause of COVID prior Marine strong as an ox no underlying condition. Stop drinking Trump Koolaid he got vaccinated in January, I hope you nothing but wellness and happiness what ever state you decided to go, the other great part is once you leave you’ll never be able to come back.

Bob March 4, 2021 - 12:53 AM - 12:53 AM

Sounds like the America we once knew.

Live it up

Chuckie’s Wife March 4, 2021 - 6:30 AM - 6:30 AM

@ Concerned Dad

Sorry to hear your dad passed away. I guess he was one of the few that do not respond to the vaccine. However, that is no reason to get all snarky about how great that we can’t come back – which is not true, by the way… what is true, is that we don’t WANT to come back. Why would I want to live in a state that cares more about 0.1% people than about 99.9% of the people, most of all, a state that cares nothing about its students that are not learning anything for a year now?

Lazy One March 4, 2021 - 2:28 PM - 2:28 PM

@concerned dad-Of course Texas will need to shout down again. With all the illegals coming in & testing positive what could go wrong?

Lazy One March 4, 2021 - 2:29 PM - 2:29 PM

that should read shut down again.

Russ Sayin March 3, 2021 - 8:19 PM - 8:19 PM

Congrats on the move. Is there a tier structure where you are, or are we the only ones living in this hell?

Chuckie’s Wife March 4, 2021 - 6:30 AM - 6:30 AM

The decisions are made at the county level and there is no tier structure that we know of.

reekorizzo March 3, 2021 - 9:17 PM - 9:17 PM

This just in………….100% of the population are being duped by the government.

Puffandstuff March 4, 2021 - 5:50 AM - 5:50 AM

I would not say 100%

Ricardoh March 3, 2021 - 9:32 PM - 9:32 PM

Didn’t figure the percentage but it seems more are dying now per day.

WC Resident March 4, 2021 - 7:44 AM - 7:44 AM

The percentage is next to impossible to compute as a person typically spends a couple of weeks or more in the ICU before dying, the county has never reported on hospital and/or admission numbers other than they report on LCTF hospital admission numbers, and the county does not report on deaths until many weeks, and sometimes months after the death. There’s insufficient information made available to the public for us to compute and chart changes to the death rate.

We can chart the number of deaths being reported per week. Using that, they are declining from what we saw at the the peak of the surge. Here’s the data by week-ending date.

Week ending  Deaths
12/06/2020    6
12/13/2020   12
12/20/2020   19
12/27/2020   23
01/03/2021   26
01/10/2021   45
01/17/2021   57
01/24/2021   39
01/31/2021   40
02/07/2021   31
02/14/2021   63
02/21/2021   32
02/28/2021   27

There have been 14 deaths reported so far this week. These numbers are the for when the deaths were reported and not when they occurred. For example, some of the deaths being reported this week occurred in early December.

The county seems to process deaths on a weekly cycle and nearly always reports them starting on Wednesday. They will report about 15 per day until they are done with the pile of death certificates for the week. This week for example it’s been zero on Monday and Tuesday and then 14 on Wednesday. Thursday’s numbers have not been released yet.

Chris March 3, 2021 - 9:33 PM - 9:33 PM

We must be vigilant. Schools should stay closed until the Fall. We need to wear at least 2 masks and limit our time around people. Don’t be selfish. You will be able to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas if we flatten the curve. There are new variations of the why flu which are spreading faster the the speed of light. Stay home and Shelter in place unless its imperative you must be outside. Support our hero health care workers. Now shut up and stop complaining or I will report you to our Governor.

Bill March 3, 2021 - 11:36 PM - 11:36 PM

Stay at home while everyone else lives a normal life.

nytemuvr March 4, 2021 - 12:03 AM - 12:03 AM

@Chris….Here’s a simplified fable you might want to look at….https://youtu.be/iiSf_K5PeFw

Yves Harlowe March 4, 2021 - 8:25 AM - 8:25 AM

Nicely done, Chris! At least, I THINK this is satire.

Exit 12A March 4, 2021 - 8:54 AM - 8:54 AM

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According to KTVU, Governor Newsolini and his CA DPH are about to change the criteria ….. again!
.
#Recall

cheeseburguesa March 4, 2021 - 9:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Gotta keep those goalposts moving

Tomato Girl March 4, 2021 - 10:34 AM - 10:34 AM

Guess the scary virus can distinguish between county lines 🙄🤦‍♀️

Captain Bebops March 4, 2021 - 11:42 AM - 11:42 AM

And are these PCR tests? We all know just how reliable those are. 😉

Like last year we are seeing a prolonged winter season which BTW those in power knew was going to happen. That means a longer cold and flu season. See how this was all worked out?


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