This is the new COVID-19 daily update on Claycord.com:
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- 944 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 116 new cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County since yesterday.
- 1 death since yesterday.
- Only 1 person under the age of 50 (they were in the 31-40 age group) has died from COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 53 of the 77 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 7 outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
PRIOR DAY CITY TOTALS:
The population in Contra Costa County is 1.1-million.
We’re on a roll now 🙁
If you want to help with the reopening, go get tested even if no symptoms. The test is now pain free, you can swab your noise yourself an it does not go deep at all. Drive through on Bates Avenue in Concord, make an appointment online, it is easy, quick, and another way to help bend the curve…
Why would you want to get voluntarily tested if the penalty for testing positive is quarantine?? No thanks.
That’s a lie, I got tested last Wednesday and they shoved it up my nose. It also wasn’t painless.
@mitch – imagine what it’s like to be intubated….
@mitch not a lie, I would not make this up…I went on Monday and that s what happened…not sure where you went.
@Ygnacio Corner…let me think…why would I get tested? Thats a very intelligent question..well to find out if I have a virus that is killing the economy and people and make sure I quarantine if I have it and I don t spread it so maybe we can get out of this crisis…just doing my duty as a citizen.
LR- testing is important but it will only tell you if you have the covid flu right now. It’s not a vaccine and it’s not a predictor of the future. If you leave the testing facility and go anywhere or have contact with anyone you could catch covid right after testing negative. Why are you testing if you have no symptoms? Hopefully it’s because you’ve been advised to by your doctor because you’ve been exposed to someone with covid and not because you want to give yourself a false sense of security. It seems silly to test without a good reason and wastes a test. With our infected numbers on the rise we might just see shortages again for things like tests.
LR is correct and it depends on where you go to get tested. From what I have heard, Kaiser is still using the nose/throat method which is very uncomfortable- the Bates Ave location is using the test that is easier on the user. I also agree with LR that if people without symptoms get tested, and more test negative, it will change the percentages of positive tests per number of tests given. If only people who are sick are tested, obviously the percentage of positives will be higher. Also testing people without symptoms may, or may not, prove the story that gazillions of people “have it and are spreading it” (OMG 😱) without knowing they have it. Personally I feel, these “numbers” are juggled and are a crock anyway – but more people taking the test might help make the numbers more accurate.
@macncheese it is not silly or a waste to get tested even without symptoms as you can be asymptomatic and spread the virus thinking you are fine, it has been recommended by all health care systems. Of course I can get the virus even 2 minutes after I was tested…that goes without say..but at least I can find out if I have it at some point…I know it is not a vaccine, I mean really… The more people we test the better, that has been said about a million times. To be able to re-open in case you don’t know, counties have to test a certain amount of people a day symptomatic or not.
@LR – getting tested will not bend the curve all that much nor make things safer by a measurable amount.
For starters, my estimate is that roughly one in 1,000 people walking about in CC county is contagious with COVID-19. For 999 people the test will come back negative. That changes nothing for you. You can still live exactly as you have before. Your risk of catching COVID-19 has not gone down. If anything, the act of getting tested carries a small risk.
If you are the one in a thousand that tests positive for COVID-19 then you will be told to stay at home, isolate yourself from others living at home with you, and tell everyone you have been on contact with for the last two weeks of your COVID-19 status. Two weeks later you will be given the all-clear and can go about living your life with the only change being that it’s likely that for a few months that you are immune from catching COVID-19 again.
Thus, to show up as positive you both need to be that one in a thousand and you need to get tested in a small window of time when you had the disease. That’s why I’m saying that getting tested will not bend the curve all that much.
Let’s say you never get tested. If you get infected you likely will not notice at all, or possibly think you have something minor. You won’t know you are contagious. A couple of weeks later everything clears up and you are no longer contagious. You also won’t know that for a few months that you are immune from catching COVID-19 again.
You can attend a 4th of July party with 100 people and the odds are nobody will get infected. We know there will be thousands of parties this weekend and that as a result there will be outbreaks.
The only things you should be mindful of is to be extra aware of social distancing, staying outside, and possibly mask use, when you are with people at risk of serious complications should they catch COVID-19. You should be taking these precautions regardless on if you have been tested or not and regardless on if you have had COVID-19 or not.
If you are at risk of complications should you catch COVID-19 then your goal is social distancing from everyone at all times and being extra aware that the virus can also be transferred through contact and that it can remain within a the air of a room or other enclosed area for a few minutes. If you are not sure of who is at risk of complications then see https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/index.html
One area where getting tested would be of value is if you end up in a situation where you believe you may have been exposed to COVID-19 then wait a couple of days and get tested. The reason for the wait is that the test measures and reports on the number of virus particles. When you are first infected you will have too few to register on the test. The tests can’t be too sensitive as then they would cause false positives. Thus you wait a couple of days for the virus to build up to measurable levels and then get tested.
Does everyone feel much safer knowing that the county continues to count and report on the number of cases and deaths?
Yes, I feel safer. Absent this information, it will be impossible to know the impact of the virus and the appropriate steps to take.
I don’t feel safer but I do like having the information. It’s better to know the truth. Nothing’s gained by burying your head in the sand. Covid is coming whether we want it to or not. Maybe if people see how quickly this is spreading in our state, maybe just maybe, they will keep quarantining and wearing their masks.
I’ve felt safe all along.
So in the whole county there has only been 23 deaths outside of long term care facilities. This whole thing makes no sense.
116 ‘New cases’….sick or just tested Positive, we never seem to find out.
37 of the 944 active cases are sick enough to be in the hospital. The other 907 either have no symptoms at all or their illness is mild enough that they are recuperating at home. All 944 have been told to quarantine along with their immediate families and so should not present a risk to the general community.
Any chance you can share the age groups of the patients currently hospitalized for COVID-19 in Contra Costa County?
More interested in knowing the age groups of those hospitalized.
It’s looking like this was a well-intentioned plan to get rid of the elderly in nursing homes on Medi-Cal to save the state money, and the prisoners in over-crowded California prisons so the state wouldn’t have to build more.
Gittyup – Why would China care about saving us money and our over crowded prisons? 😉
Gittyup – Why would China care about saving us money and our over crowded prisons? 😉
I’m a registered nurse, currently on breakfast break. I’m a Labor and Delivery nurse and care for women ages 16-47. Today, my patient is Covid positive, symptomatic, pregnant and 28. Yesterday, my patient was Covid positive, asymptomatic and 37 years old. This virus is everywhere. Doing what I do and reading these comments leave me stunned. Wear a mask. This thing is real. All ages. It does NOT discriminate.