This is the COVID-19 daily update on Claycord.com:
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- 1,303 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 165 new cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County since yesterday.
- 3,628 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 2 deaths since yesterday (county total = 92).
- 64 of the 92 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 15 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities – note: nursing home staff is only tested every 30 days, according to Contra Costa County.
- 58 of the 92 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.
- 1,448 tests were conducted yesterday in Contra Costa County.
- 549 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 about 1.1-million.
going to be interesting to see what the cases gonna be like since now the state had put in the Lockdown 2.0
If only they had given us ways to avoid going through this lock down again. I mean why didn’t they let everyone know that wearing a mask would help people from getting &/or spreading the virus. You’d think we would’ve been given advice by people who knew about the immune system & that could’ve given us steps we could easily take to protect ourselves.
I’m assuming this is tongue in cheek. If you haven’t heard by now that wearing a mask is a major step in stopping this then you haven’t been paying attention.
I have been on the phone most of the morning trying to get a hold of someone with the Health Dept., no luck. I was told this morning that a manager at the Burger King at 677 Contra Costa Blvd., has tested positive for COVID, exposed employee’s are still working. I do not know if this is truthful information or not, but I have to get it out there… Also, all mail boxes are full with CCCHD, so you can’t even leave a message…!!!
If the manager has testrf positive for COVID, CCCHD will follow up and take appropriate action.
@ Chris
So you want to be rumormonger is what you’re saying.
I have absolutely no idea if this true or not but boycott this business….
Yikes! What are Bay Point, San Pablo and Richmond doing?
@Oh I think they are going to work each day and living in large family groups…….
Subtracting out long-term care facility deaths gives 28 deaths for entire county. So IF there had there been better regulations in place for HVAC systems in those facilities, could have been fewer deaths of our elderly.
Finer micron filtration and UVC lamps in HVAC duct work.
Most of those facilities have prohibited visitors since March. Where are the outbreaks that have happened since then been coming from? The staff? Vendors?
@Original G – I’ve seen your posts on this on Claycord. My husband Jim, he is an architect, brought this topic up yesterday. He stated that ih his professional opinion, the CA Building Code needs to be revised to required sufficient HVAC requirements for the entire range of residential care facilities to skilled care facilities. Jim stated all of the technology is currently available. He also would like to see a “mud room” approach in skilled care, where the caregiver goes into a room (the “mud room”) before the patient, puts on PPE, and the room is ventilated out so germs are ventilated out coming and going.
Alas, we’ve found not evidence this issue is being considered by our lawmakers in CA.
“The staff? Vendors?”
Very possibly yes to both, given incubation period of
2 – 14 days. From what I understand staff testing is only every 30 days. Unknown what measures facilities are mandated by governmental entities and what they’re doing over and above on their own.
Would be nice if non patient areas had a separate HVAC system from resident’s area and resident’s area should have a positive pressure so there is no exchange of air between two areas. An both systems should employ UVC lamps in duct work.
As far as politicians go, would expect usual motivators will be needed. Media asking why HVAC standards don’t protect elderly in high density environments and large number of constituents demanding action.
How many other deaths has there been at these long term care facilities with covid deaths since the reporting started? Or is every death being counted as Covid?
Historically, the county has averaged 18.7 deaths per day. That works out to an estimated 2,506 deaths since March 1st though likely is slightly lower this year as there have been fewer accidents. I don’t know how many of the estimated 2,506 were residents of skilled nursing facilities. At 92 deaths, COVID-19 is a thin 3.67% slice of the pie.
No, not all deaths of skilled nursing residents are being reported as COVID-19. People are still getting old and dying of the usual things.
Is this the thread for the panic merchants or what? We have Matt acting like there is not a million opinions if masks work to prevent the spread of COVID. We have Chris starting rumors about Burger King forcing workers to work with COVID in the air. Oh please is yelling Yikes! Honestly guys time to to take a day off. Come back with a positive outlook, all your doom and gloom is over the top fear mongering.
I believe tests will come back with in hours or a day depending on the person’s vulnerability. I have an elderly family member that was tested and received results in hours due to that person’s age and health condition.
You are correct though, the results are behind what is actually happening in real time. It is still useful information because you can still make a statistical correlation to track the growth of the infection in the population.
One thing I am curious about, how many people are getting tested with no symptoms vs those that have symptoms. One of the arguments I’ve seen is that we only have more cases because of more testing. What is the ratio of those going in to be tested because they have some kind of symptom vs those that are getting tested for work purposes.
I would love to say there is a rhyme or reason to it, but there isn’t. People are getting tested and told their results will be available in 7-10 days. My girlfriend and I got tested because of potential exposure from someone at her work (who later tested negative), my appointment was 6 hours before hers on the same day. She got her results in 6 days, I didn’t get mine until 28 sleepless hours later (both of us negative, thank goodness).
I suspect that many people are being tested for “peace of mind” purposes.
Why are the long-term care workers only being tested once a month???? This seems silly with so many other precautions elsewhere and most of the deaths occurring in the care facilities.
I may be mistaken, but with the total numbers of confirmed cases in cc county
I may be mistaken, but the total number of confirmed covid cases being 5023 and the number of deaths being 92..am I to figure that it is much less than 1% mortality rate ? I am sorry for any mortality rate…but is this a peril to shut down california or cc county. maybe someone can correct me. we can all tell each other how we feel.. but the real way is to let your voice be heard. If everyne stood up to what is happening..it would come to a crashing halt.Maybe we need to get a fire lt under us.
There’s a 5-6 day incubation period and then usually if someone dies it’s a week or two after that, so looking at mid-June timeframe there were ~2000 confirmed cases which compared to 92 deaths is over 4% case fatality ratio. Even if we were comparing to ~5000 that’d still be closer to 2% than 1%.
The big issue we want to avoid is crossing 100% ICU occupancy. After that point every single new person who needs a ventilator dies until we get the curve down. It’s bad enough with the COVID deaths, we don’t need everyone with asthma or pneumonia or other emergent medical issues dying. Not to mention medical personnel getting so burnt out they’re constantly in danger of making mistakes.
I get that we want to reopen, there are huge public health hits to keeping things closed. Stress and social isolation are killing people too. Economic devastation will kill people. Californians need to do a better job of learning good health hygiene and adapting to the reality we’ll be facing the next 12-18 months if we want to get there though.
“Health hygiene” “12-18 months” lol what planet are you on Aaron. Give me a break. Let this thing rip like Sweden..they in the total clear. All this propaganda is a joke. Pure politics
Stop letting the dumbest, weakest, whiniest people in our society control what we do. Ignore them.
Sweden? Nah.
https://www.ft.com/content/93105160-dcb4-4721-9e58-a7b262cd4b6e
another thing that I am wondering about…is the mayor and the city council… I had no idea that the mayor tells the police dept how they can react to certain thing. The police have their hands tied in certain cities in this country. I think we need to be very discerning as to who we eleect to these offices. I believe we don’t elect the mayor anymore..they are picked by the council members. This is all a part of the whole of what is happening. Have we been sleeping?
Major Potential Scandal As Florida Clinics Over-Reporting CV Cases By Almost 90%
Major scandal for the healthcare system in FL is brewing after an investigation found that hospitals are over-reporting their positive CV rates by substantial margins.
Kinda makes you wonder
33 Florida labs busted for not reporting negative results & falsifying positive virus test results. Reported 98% positive when it actually was 9.4%.
Next do California