Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Monday March 8, 2021.
All information is from the Contra Costa County Health Dept.:
- Total cases (since March) – 63,493
- Recovered cases – 61,453
- Deaths – 708
- Total active confirmed cases – 1,332
- Nursing home deaths – 305
- 7 active outbreaks in nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- Patients currently hospitalized – 65
- Occupied ICU beds – 125
- Available ICU beds – 36
The State will move Contra Costa County to the “Red Tier” once the following three criteria have been met for two consecutive weeks:
- Case Rate: Less than 7 new cases per 100,000 residents – (currently 9.3)
- Positivity Rate: Less than 8% of tests countywide are positive – (currently 2.9%)
- Equity Metric: Less than 8% of tests for residents of the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index census tracts are positive – (currently 4.8%)
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 8.1) 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.
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Red tier is very promising.
We are at the Red tier, folks…but the data showing on the Contra Costa County Dashboard has figures from week 2/21-2/27…click on the end of the graph for Number of New cases per 100k and you’ll see for 3/7 we are at 6.3, well below the 7% threshold. See for yourself:
https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview
so if it was met on 3/6, that should mean the county is eligible to move on 3/20 (2 weeks of being below threshold in the 3 metrics), right? Again, people coming into the place where I work saying this Thursday, saying the 17th, and saying tomorrow. Everybody claims to know someone who knows someone who knows exactly when it’ll go to red.
Yes, based on what I am looking at (which is the rolling data), we actually fell below 7% on March 2nd. Since the other 2 metrics were already met and exceeded, assuming no change to the data, we would be officially in red tier by this time next week. Unless the County wants it to be 2 weeks PLUS the week lag, in which case, we’re looking at the 23rd. The funny thing is, the lag is not consistent from County to County. For instance, Alameda County uses a 4-day lag, and we are using a 7-day.
@cheeseburguesa~I’m watching the Board of Supervisors Meeting and the Health Department updated by Dr. Farnitano said, “we qualify for red tier even though some metrics are still in purple…this is because the equity metric is 4.8 (which is in orange)…this bumps us up into red.”
He went on to say that we expect to be in red tier next Wednesday.
So, your patron, who said the 17th seems to be piped in….
The tier metric system is very confusing, changing daily..but I suspect that is their intention…
@Sancho Panza, Dr. Farnitano is correct in that we meet two categories to be moved into the red tier. However, we also have to meet the third metric which is less than 7 cases/100k. The metrics all run on a 7 day lag (same as the State) and we have to meet them for two weeks.
On the State Blueprint Map, it shows Contra Costa as 7.9 cases/100k, 2.9 positivity rate (7 day avg), and 4.9 equity for March 9.
It looks like we went below 7 cases/100k on March 2. The State will probably move us into red tier maybe on March 16 or on March 23 considering the 7 day lag.
I have been watching new cases per day. This is the number that translates into the case rate. Once the new cases per day goes below 82 then the case rate will be below 7.
I have also been trying, without success, to get the county to fix a bug in their data. A while back they slipped from looking 7 days back to 8 days back. For example, if you look at https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview the “Cases per Day per 100,000”, “Testing Positivity Rate”, and “Equity Metric” all are looking at the 7 days from 2/22 to 2/28. That’s wrong, they should be looking at 2/23 to 3/1. Today is the 9th and they they reported on the data up to 3/8. As the data is too new to be valid they ignore the last 7 days which is 3/2/2021 to 3/8/2021. Thus the valid data starts at 3/1/2021 and goes back from there. They used to so this correctly but I think the person that shifts the 7-day sliding window every day had the day off and it didn’t get shifted. Ever since then, we have been an extra day behind. It used to not be a big deal as we were so deep in the purple but now that we are on the edge that one day slip can easily cause the shift to red to be delayed based on old data.
Yep, everyone was just “following orders”. Where have we all heard that before in History?
The imbeciles in the “health” (LOL) dept all need to be tar and feathered…..like the Oakley school board of directors.
I live my life as everything is opened, half-azzed masked in order to get into stores…..constantly Touching the mask as well.
And as for the police……if they’re Not going to do anything abut Tinted Windshields – mask hypoxia enforcement is the LAST thing they need to be worrying about!
I wonder why our death rate from CORONAVIRUS is so high in CoCoCounty. The very few people I know who are on the opposite side of mask-wearing look at hospital bed availability. I want to say, “The beds are empty because the bodies are in the cemetery.”
Delusional
For those worried about Covid pandemic, show your concern for what is coming over the border. Anything less is an obvious double standard.
75% of our Covid spreaders come from the swarm at the border. This fact from a Los Angeles doctor.
Well, Contra Costa County is NOW the only bay area county in the purple tier. Come on Supervisor get your act together so we can get businesses open again.
Sonoma County is also still in the purple tier. The BOS does not advance the tiers, it’s the State that advances the tiers.
Well, Contra Costa County is NOW the only bay area county in the purple tier. Come on Supervisor get your act together so we can get businesses open again. Other wise we may open with or without your blessing.
If you’re so happy you moved away, why are you reading and commenting on a neighborhood blog that you don’t live in?
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