Contra Costa is now reporting 539 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 9 more than yesterday.
The county has also confirmed there have been 11 coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa.
Below is a city-by-city breakdown of coronavirus cases for Contra Costa County:
Any idea how many of those hospitalized are from senior center in Orinda? Good to see only 9 more cases today
Frustrated it would be nice to know right? They really need to give us more detail question is why are they not doing so?
That is the lowest number of new cases in 2 weeks. Looks like we peaked on 4/4 with 46 cases and have been in a downtrend since then. Time to start letting people go back to work.
Concord Mike, I 2nd that.
Absolutely not. Not a good idea at all. Just because we are in a downward trend, that does not indicate the virus is not out there. We have no treatment nor vaccine for this at this time. Even if our infected numbers miraculously reached zero, we would still need to be extremely cautious in order to avoid a second wave of infections.
I would expect this Shelter in Place to be extended through the end of May, if not halfway through May; L.A. County has already extended their orders until mid-May. We will most likely do the same.
Concerned,
Feel free to stay inside through the end of May. The rest of us have to get back to work on May 4th.
With the exception of Orinda the highest number of cases based on population are mostly unincorporated areas of the county. This could be a good indicator of which parts of the county need better basic health programs instead of having them travel to other cities.
….. am seeing MANY people not wearing or gloves going into stores.
And MOST of them seem to be in clusters of 2-3 mid-teenagers!
Stores need to post signs which say
NO ENTRY UNLESS YOU ARE WEARING MASK AND GLOVES!
And the very worst thing we can do is to become blasé the instant the case number curve starts to flatten. That is exactly the time each of us will need to protect ourselves and one another even moreso!
While agree that everyone should be wearing a mask in stores, gloves are debatable because they give a false sense of security. People wear them all day place after place touching surface after surface. You are better off just washing your hands frequently.
Also, people have been littering the grounds of parking lots and leaving used gloves in shopping carts which can spread this virus.
PSA to people to throw your gloves away inside out into a trashcan or keep a trashbag in your car. Do not put workers at more risk than they already are!
Hi Antler,
Gloves are not useful. A better idea is to perform proper hand hygiene before going to the store, again before you touch your purse or wallet, and then again before getting into your car. I see a lot of people wearing gloves and touching everything, which is actually more likely to spread disease than prevent it. Wash your hands and keep some hand sanitizer with you!
And are you going to pay for their gloves and masks? Didn’t think so.
If I wear gloves I’m less likely to touch my face. That’s the benefit.
Please keep in mind that these groups of 2-3 mid-teens may be from the same household. You are not expected to keep a 6 foot distance from members of your household, though you are expected to maintain a 6 foot distance from those outside of your house hold.
As far as masks and gloves go; they’re a great idea to put on when going to grocery stores or supermarkets, places that see a lot of traffic from people, but unfortunately not everyone is going to feel the need to wear them. People have their own risk and comfort levels they’re willing to take, and stores are not going to turn away both paying customer and hungry people. Unless someone came in and was obviously severely ill, sneezing and coughing a lot, there’s no point in keeping customers out of stores.
@ antlers … you need to relax. Take a deep breath. Have faith.
I am grossed out by people wearing gloves out and about. A person likely has not been changing those gloves with each contact they have with a surface, they are as dirty as money. Put me next to an unmasked person with no obvious signs of illness any day.
Frequently washing your hands, or using hand sanitizer when you can’t wash your hands, makes much better sense.
Unless you are reading and following the instructions on Disinfectant Wipes and Disinfectant Spray, they are ineffective. You need to saturate the item and allow the wiped or sprayed area to COMPLETELY DRY to kill any virus or bacteria. Obviously, if using them on a shopping cart handle, most people aren’t going to stand around for the 10 to 15 minutes it takes for the handle to dry.
We need to get back to work. I’ll be another homeless statistic if this goes on for another month.
Thank you to everyone who is staying at home, wearing masks and gloves when you have to go out, and maintaining social distances! Keep it up, please!
All of you complaining about needing to get back to work, here’s an idea apply for a job that is essential worker… everyone is hiring… you just don’t want that job? Well don’t say we need to get back to work and then cases increase astronomically all because you wanted to get back to work??? Think of others, money can be tight I get that but your health is not worth the risk.. and if you don’t think this is serious.. then like I said find a job because many places are hiring and need the help!
Though I 100 percent agree with you that it’s important to look out for our health, and each others health, in this critical time; I disagree with your evaluation of of those who want to go back to work.
One of the requirements for receiving Unemployment Benefits during this time, is to be able to work if a job comes your way. The need to ‘draft’ employees into jobs has not been a reality. If that need changes, there are over 16 million Americans who have stated they are ready and able to work when they’re needed.
If this need hasn’t come up, then all we can do is wait. When people say they want to go back to work, they aren’t necessarily talking about making money. They may be talking about the type of work they’re in. They may work in hospitality and would like to continue helping people, they may be laid off teachers who want to continue growing the minds of our children, they may be college students who have their internships put on hold due to covid-19 fears. When people find a job they’re really passionate about, the pay isn’t always the only factor.
Chris, for some people money isn’t tight, money is gone. Not everyone has a 3-6 month savings for emergencies. Many people live paycheck to paycheck. It only takes a week or two before you run out of food and other necessities. Even with a $1200 stimulus check, how many bills is that going to pay? Rent/mortgage, PG&E, water bill, garbage bill, credit cards, phone bill, internet, cable, car payments, car insurance, gas, etc. Oh Yeah and food. People need to get back to work.
I hear you ZZ.
Test everyone and really quarantine those that have it. Let the rest of the world move on.
I don’t have months of savings and you want the world to move on from this?! It has to be handled first!!! There are options for people that are out of money, unemployment, credit cards, gig economy jobs, jobs that are hiring. All options.
unless gloves are changed/washed after each time you touch something, they are not better than bare hands. They give such a false sense of security, it is actually dangerous. I am surprised our leadership has not informed us of this danger.
Good hand washing habits are much safer!
This Easter week, people in mass numbers ignored the health recommendations. People flocked to parks, the Canal trail and the Iron Horse trail. People crowded into the grocery stores to get ingredients for Easter meals. In 2 weeks time we will see if there is a spike in cases, or if we really are headed towards a downward trend. There are predictions of a second wave of cases to come.
Cities in California are not enforcing the guidelines equally. Los Angeles has a face mask mandate that is enforced by LAPD. Santa Cruz isn’t messing around either; SCPD is handing out $1000 tickets to people who blatantly violate social distancing rules. In the Bay Area, enforcement of the shutdown order has been very lax.
While we only had 9 new cases in Contra Costa in the past 24 hours, other California counties continue to have higher numbers. We can’t build a wall around Contra Costa County to keep people out. We must remain in shutdown until the numbers across the board show a consistent an substantial decline. People who want to get back to work now can look at starting an online business, finding a job that offers telecommuting options, or seeking a job in a essential field of work.
How come there were 22 cases in Danville yesterday and only 21 today? I wonder how many other numbers have been messed up each time the spread sheet is updated….
Perhaps a death or recovery is the reason for 1 less
The test is not 100% accurate. It returns something like 60% positives that aren’t actually positive. Perhaps one was a false positive
I wear gloves correctly, throw them away after I leave a store. I don’t throw them on the ground. This way I don’t touch my face. As far as cross contamination in the store, don’t touch everything! Touch what you buy, put it in your cart and check out. I don’t like to see so many people without a mask because YOU don’t know if YOU are infected yet. I saw someone sneeze all over an ATM machine the other day. Then, he used it. Then, did he go to the store and buy things? That’s one person. I’m wearing gloves. I don’t want any yuk on my hands…and I wash them, too. Let’s just be careful and smart.
If you have the gloves on when you take a shopping cart by the handle, they are immediately contaminated. You are better off using your bare hands and using hand sanitizer after wiping the cart handle down with the wipes provided at the store. Every item you put into your cart has the potential to have virus on it. You can take an anti-bacterial/virus wipe and wipe the shopping cart with you gloved hand before going in the store, but if you get the cart and push it to the wipe station in the store, it has already contaminated your gloved hand.
You can take your own antibacterial wipes to wipe down the cart, ATM, and credit card machines at checkout, otherwise, you’re just potentially getting virus on your gloved hands and transferring it again to the cart e when you push the cart out to your car.
A recent newspaper article indicated that they now believe the virus lives on surfaces much longer than originally thought. The mask and hand washing or hand sanitizer used frequently, and anti-bacterial/virus wipes are the best, and most effective protection. Gloves are no better than a bare hand which you can wash endlessly.
@just me – The county is constantly revising the numbers as additional data comes in. I have seen them change numbers from up to about three weeks ago. The changes are small and are meaningless for those dealing with the big picture.
@Ano – the county reports for the number of COVID-19 cases include a footnote that the number of cases does not the number of recoveries. I’d assume they also do not subtract the number of deaths either. Assuming the disease takes 14 days to progress through someone we could assume that there are roughly 355 active cases and 184 cases that either have recovered or died. 355 is the sum of the new cases for the last 14 days. 184 is the total number of cases reported, 539, minus 355. That number is an estimate as many cases will be tested/confirmed well into the progress of the disease. I’ve heard that day 7 and 8 are the worse. If they only test people that seem really bad off then it would be 152 active cases for the last 7 days and 387 that have recovered or died.
As testing is not widely deployed the number of confirmed cases is meaningless. Only 98 people were tested on Saturday with nine of them being confirmed as having COVID-19. We have no idea if the number of COVID-19 cases in the community is rising, falling, or flat. Sunday’s numbers have not been released yet.
This lack of information is an area that’s most troubling. Why did they only test 98 people? I also want local data that would let people know what are the odds they will catch COVID-19 and if they do what are the odds they will be asymptomatic, mildly symptomatic, symptomatic enough that you call the doctor (at this point the doctor’s office should be reporting so that the county has a sense of how many people are calling, and their demographics), symptomatic enough that the doctor feels additional action is needed, on up to that you died all for various demographic groups. This data is already being collected and used but is not being made public.