Contra Costa County Health Services COVID-19 Dashboard

To find those 3 skilled nursing facilities it would take at least a 90 study by an outside agency and it would cost at least a million dollars.

Half of that money would be donated back to the sups re-election funds.

The facilities are named but you need to dig a bit through the county reports to get the list of facilities. When I wrote yesterday’s summary of the week I chose to not name them as it appears that naming something these days makes it a target for “activists.” People burn down a Wendy’s because a cop shot someone in the parking lot?

An outbreak of COVID-19 within a facility is a matter of pure chance and has little to nothing to do with how well the facility was run. At present, roughly one in every 2100 people in the county is contagious. If you happen to have an encounter with a contagious person that is long and close enough then you may become infected. While one in 2100 seems like low odds for us as individuals facilities have much more exposure because usually you have three shifts of employees coming in every day day of the week. Let’s say a facility has 300 staff. The odds then fall to 300 out of 2100 and it’s repeated every single day. By the end of the week the odds have dropped to around 2100 out of 2100.

The reason there have not been more outbreaks is that the employees and their families are taking a great deal of care in personal hygiene and in their work practices.

@Pat – I’ve already explained why I chose to not disclose the names of the facilities. Generally I would agree with you that transparency is a good thing. However, a COVID-19 outbreak seems to be a matter of bad luck rather than the result of bad choices. If it can be shown that bad choices are being within a particular location then I’d support making the name of that location public.

An employer allowing a known contagious employee to continue coming to work, or ordering them to do so, seems unlikely. Can you cite a news report that this is a common problem?

Someone who tests positive for COVID-19 in CC county is ordered by the health department to self-quarantine, regardless on if they are asymptomatic or symptomatic. As part of that, they are required to notify contacts that may have been exposed to the virus. If an employer then tells the person that they are required to work then I suspect the employee should report that to the county health department. See “Updated Mass Quarantine Order” on https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/health-orders

The link for testing goes to https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/get-tested At the top of that page is “Click here to quickly schedule a no-cost test.” which goes to https://lhi.care/covidtesting

What does not work about it? The sign-up process seem simple enough though asks for vast amounts of personal information. One bit of weirdness is that it appears they will be texting and e-mailing potentially HIPAA compromising information to you.