This is the COVID-19 daily update on Claycord.com:
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- 1,170 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 223 new cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County since yesterday (today’s total – yesterday’s total = number of new cases)
- 5,153 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 0 deaths since yesterday (county total = 102).
- 71 of the 102 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 15 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- 62 of the 102 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.
- Nobody under the age of 17 has died from COVID-19 in the State of California.
- 3,190 tests were conducted yesterday in Contra Costa County. The seven day positive average is 6.3%.
- 552 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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The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
Hellooooo Dr Farnitano, Contra Costa County Health Services and County Board of Supervisors.. The deadly outbreaks in our county’s skilled nursing facilities are a DISGRACE. Many, if not most of these deaths are preventable. Must you be told again and again that you’re not doing enough?
Testing is confusing.
Is it available locally to those with no symptoms?
Are there two types of tests – one for antigens and one for the virus?
Should we get both?
Are they still using the extra-long swab up the nose to test?
Pool testing looks like a good way to test more cheaply & often and in far greater numbers.
> Is it available locally to those with no symptoms?
Yes
> Are there two types of tests – one for antigens and one for the virus?
> Should we get both?
There are two types of tests but I don’t think you can get the antigen version in Contra Costa County. You can get it in Alameda county. CC county does not offer the antigen test as it’s not as reliable as the PCR virus test. Kaiser won’t do the antigen test either.
> Are they still using the extra-long swab up the nose to test?
It depends on where you go to get tested.
> Pool testing looks like a good way to test more cheaply & often and in far greater numbers.
I personally think it’s cheaper to not bother with testing at all unless you are symptomatic. If you are not showing any symptoms then the odds are one in 600 that you currently have an active infection. That infection only lasts about ten days at the most and is shorter for many people. If you get tested before or after that window then it’ll come back negative.
While pool testing can speed up the screening process you are still playing whack a mole trying to locate those with COVID-19 in time to make a difference to the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community.
Social distancing, wearing masks, and washing hands have far more value to slowing down or stopping the virus than testing of those that do not have symptoms.
Thank you @WC Resident
Today, the head of the CDC tweeted out:
“It is critically important for our public health to open schools this fall.” The CDC has also pointed out the low risk that children pose as transmitters of the virus.
I post this as a rebuttal to the Chicken Littles who constantly cry, “But you have to follow the science and listen to the experts.”