This is the COVID-19 daily update on Claycord.com:
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- 1,238 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 143 new cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County since yesterday.
- 3,278 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 1 deaths since yesterday (county total = 89).
- 63 of the 89 deaths were in long-term care facilities (one more since yesterday).
- San Miguel Villa in Concord has had 20 resident COVID-19 related deaths, according to the California Department of Public Health.
- There are currently 15 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities (one more since yesterday) – note: nursing home staff is only tested every 30 days, according to Contra Costa County.
- 56 of the 89 deaths have been people over the age of 81.
- 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.
- 1,768 tests were conducted yesterday in Contra Costa County.
- 546 homeless people are currently placed in motel/hotel rooms in Contra Costa County. Placements are approved for homeless people who are awaiting COVID-19 test results or those who are considered at high risk.
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PRIOR DAY CITY TOTALS:
The population in Contra Costa County is 1.1-million.
Does anyone know how many of those hospitalized are from long term care facilities?
It breaks my heart that those mostly elderly who have not gone out are getting infected…
I was wondering this too. 🙁
I still can’t get over the fact they’re only testing once every 30 days… Knowing that symptoms show up 7-14 days and many of the cases in younger individuals are asymptomatic or mild.
It’s NOT mostly elderly!! The HIGHEST age group npw?? Is the 17-35 year olds.. This is NOT an “old persons” virus.. That group is not complying, running all over town etc.. Its RIDICULOUS!! So when we get shut down AGAIN?? Y’all will know..
How many of the new hospital stays are from OUTSIDE the county?
Yes, some of the younger folks are getting it now because they were at the protests. If this was the family gatherings and the holiday parties, the spread were be a little broader across the age spectrum, but it is not, it is in the younger generation now. BUT, and this is a big BUT, how many folks in that age bracket are symptomatic? How many have died? In Contra Costa County, no one under the age of 40 has died, no one!
Sorry, we do not need to be locked in our rooms again …. well again for those that willingly stayed there last time.
@MadMomma
Please read my post carefully… , what I meant “mostly elderly” is that people who are at the long term care facilities are mostly elderly people.
Earlier report said 63 of the current 89 deaths were from long term facilities. Total cases doesn’t break down except by age groups.
Nursing home staff is only tested every 30 days, according to Contra Costa County. Does this make sense? Every 30 days? How about everyday before they walk into the building?
@Ricardoh – COVID-19 testing labs are already overrun and backlogged. Not enough lab capacity to efficiently handle the current amount of testing, yet alone what would be a significant percentage increase in testing, day after day.
The other issue we can’t ignore is financial: Who would pay for all of this testing? The employer? The employee? Daily testing on this large of a scale would certainly not be free.
Mary Fouts 26 people in the county that have died were not in long term facilities. That means the vast majority were in one of them. Testing every thirty days is criminal and useless.
The government does not care about the elderly. They cost the government money. Politicians like the New York governor should be brought up on charges for the thousands of deaths he caused to the elderly population. The Democrats will cover this up as they have. The criminal media will not cover this either. Very sad.
Anonymous2 It was a democrat who put sick people in nursing homes after the Trump administration made temp hospital beds by the thousands in NYC. Beds that became unused.
President Trump is good at many things but he is not a doctor. He was not the one that told people not to wear masks. Any blame if there is blame to go around beside the communist Chinese would be on the CDC and our medical experts.
No it was the Democrats seizing the crisis for politics with health as a secondary objective. Newsom using the 1970 emergency act to change 22 laws on his whim, and adding economic sanctions to charter schools. Further, playing musical chairs with prison inmates created additional cases and now releasing them into the public. Then there is his China mask purchase, and encouragement of protests. All while spending money like a drunken sailor to create a $54 Billion deficit. Yeah, he’s got your back…
I think the alarming fact from this reporting is that 2 days ago there were 55 in the hospital and today there are 77 hospitalized. Are these Long Term Care patients?
Stay safe!
https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/contra-costa-county/
107 in the hospitals
Why aren’t my comments going through?
Ask the LA Times where that get that number! Maybe they are counting all the patients,not just the county residents?
@WCreaker
They count the non-ICU hospitalized. Claycord is only counting ICU patients. Meaning 77 in the ICU and 30 in non-ICU.
@iota well that’s an interesting concept which is not supported by what the County reports and what we hear from those working in hospitals. What is your source for this?
California Department of Public Health has data for Contra Costa Couinty 8 Covid confirmed in ICU/15 suspected in ICU; 23 confirmed covid hospitalized/62 suspected hospitalized…scroll down to ID44 for our county..
https://data.ca.gov/dataset/covid-19-hospital-data/resource/42d33765-20fd-44b8-a978-b083b7542225
Building code for long term care facilities needs revision and changes need to be made retroactive. Specifically HVAC air handling systems need micron filtration and UVC germicidal lamps inside duct work need to be mandated.
Testing of staff and residents needs to be robust.
Owners need to be held accountable criminally if they fail to safeguard residents and staff, not given a pass by politicians because of lobbyists and campaign contributions.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200327-can-you-kill-coronavirus-with-uv-light
Are seemingly healthy people with no symptoms getting tested?
How many patients were transferred from down south?
Interesting how they’ve been spreading the virus all around CA
Medical reports are now saying recovered covid cases can cause infertility and impotentcy.
Dumbed down for the dumb; If you catch covid your penis might not work anymore
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1261359/coronavirus-cases-update-china-study-sexual-hormones-erectile-dysfunction
@an iota of maturity…And we were also told in the 70s that smoking weed would make us grow boobs. 50 years later and I’m still in my trainer bra, but enough of my private life.
@nytemuvr
“This is your boobs on drugs…..”
Seriously, a novel virus isn’t the same as weed. Weed won’t kill you.
@an iota of maturity…..funny, you missed the whole point. “This is your brain not functioning properly….”
Even if only 1 percent of Americans die of covid that is 33 million Americans dead.
But it isn’t going to be just 1 percent if everyone doesn’t cooperate with mitigation.
Also, surviving covid doesn’t mean a complete recovery. Surviors may suffer from organ damage, blood clots, and other serious diseases long after. A “mild” case can in fact kill people. Many “mild” cases die.
@ Iota,
if you had an iota of sense, you would see how dense your statement really is.
You are attempting to fear mongrel us into complying. Mild cases are NOT dying. Mild cases are NOT causing serious medical issues. The majority of survivors are NOT having long term damage. I would offer to let you prove your statements, but it would be a waste of your time because that evidence does not exist.
As for 1%, you are making an assumption that everyone of the 340 million people in the US will catch this … sorry .. we are not seeing those numbers …
Get a grip!
An iota of maturity: no, it’s not 33,000,000. It’s 3.3 million, and the US is nowhere near that number of deaths.
The last estimate of usa population is 330 million. And the current death rate is about 9 percent of cases.
But whatever, I think even 3 million dying is very bad.
Iota
Where do you get 9%? We are not seeing 9% anywhere. CCC is roughly 1.7 an the US is around 4.1%, both down from what they were even a few weeks ago.
Life, every drop counts.
My God!
The number of Covid 19 cases on Bethel Island DOUBLED OVERNIGHT!
Thank you for this information. Would you please find the numbers for current cases in towns/cities? These cases per 100,000 are cumulative not active cases. If not, where can I find that information?
Thanks again!
Wisti
The people put into ICU are presumptive positive and most have hardly any detrimental symptoms related To Covid 19. They ar e th euro because they are a risk group and it’s their other health issues that determine they go to the ICU just in case”.
Everyone else is sent home.
I’d like contra costa to take that 4,000 number of those who tested positive and then just show those who haven’t recovered yet. So how many are sick currently.
I bet you would be lucky to get into triple digits.
I’m sorry if 150-200 people are sick county wide… then this is a load of crap.