This is the COVID-19 daily update on Claycord.com.
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- 1,155 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 316 cases of COVID-19 reported since yesterday in Contra Costa County. (today’s total – yesterday’s total = number of cases reported since yesterday)
- 8,799 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 95 of the 149 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 31 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- 81 of the 149 deaths have been people over the age of 81.
- 3 people under the age of 50 (one in the 31-40 age group, and two in the 41-50 age group) have died from COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- Nobody under the age of 12 has died from COVID-19 in the State of California.
- 2,610 tests were conducted yesterday in Contra Costa County. The seven day positive average is not available at this time, according to the county.
- 578 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.
- There are currently 50 ICU beds available, and 225 ventilators available in Contra Costa County.
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The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
31 outbreaks with how many active cases?
There are only two LTCF mentioned here https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/Additional-Resources/Research-and-Data/DSSDS/RCFE-8-10.pdf with approximately 50 active cases. Where are the other 29? This document is far-far-faraway from accurate.
If on average every LTCF with outbreak has 25 active cases it would give approximately 725 active cases out of 1155. It means more than half active cases is in LTCF.
@E=mc2,
There are two agencies that license LTCF in CA – Department of Social Services (assisted living, board and care) and the California Department of Health (nursing homes)
the majority of the LTCF cases are in nursing homes. There is a table of nursing homes by county here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/SNFsCOVID_19.aspx
Look at the LA Times Coronavirus webpage. It has all the detail and lists all 31 facilities.
@E=mc2 – The definition of an active outbreak is very different than an active case. It’s almost apples and oranges. I’ll focus on active outbreaks here.
For patient privacy reasons the state and county do not report numbers if they are between 1 to ten. If it’s zero at a facility they report that. If it’s 11 or more at a facility they report that. Of the 31 facilities with active outbreaks:
* 5 facilities have zero residents with COVID-19. All five have between 1 and 10 staff cases each.
* 7 facilities have 10 or more residents that had or have COVID-19. It’s a total of 284 cases among the residents. Of these, none have zero staff cases, two have been 1 and 10 staff cases, and 5 have a total of 147 staff cases.
* 19 facilities have between 1 and 10 affected residents. Of these, 7 have zero staff cases and the other 12 have between 1 and 10 staff cases. None of these have more than 10 staff cases.
A facility needs to have zero active cases for at least 28 days before it’s dropped from the active list. The county does not report how many days it’s been since the last positive test or last active case and so we don’t know how close a facility is to getting dropped from the active list. One facility has had an active outbreak since early April, another since mid-May, 7 since June, 20 since July, and 2 LTCF outbreaks have started in August though one of those two is at a facility that had an outbreak from 6/12/2020 to 7/22/2020. Rather than re-open the earlier outbreak they listed it as a new active outbreak that started 8/6/2020.
@E=mc2 – If want to estimate the number of active cases among the LTCFs then I can think of two ways to do this.
1) There have been a total of 696 LTCF cases and 10,103 total cases. The LTCFs are 6.89% of the total cases. 6.89% of the 1155 active cases is 80 active cases among the LTCF.
2) The number of active cases is essentially the number of new cases in the last 14 days plus those that are still hospitalized minus those that have died. As nearly 100% of the LTCF residents that end up in the hospital die we’ll consider the latter two components a wash. There have been 163 new cases at the LTCFs in the last 14 days.
Thus, the number of active cases is somewhere around 80 or 163 depending on how to you do the math.
You should start hi-lighting how many of the hospitalizations are from LTCFs! Today 93 of the 99 hospitalizations are from nursing homes.
This is a major fail keeping the most vulnerable safe, and also is completely maddening only SIX PEOPLE out of the general population are in the hospital.
@Mama this is not correct. There are 93 cumulative hospitalizations over the entire time of tracking from LTCFs. We don’t know how many of the current 99 in hospital are from LTCFs, would be nice to know.
Yes these facts – if we can really believe anything anymore – would be really nice to know. LTCFs should be regulated and ,cleaned and not the economy shut down. and how many of the people that test positive are “asymptomatic’? what used to be called immune to the flu.- or very mild symptoms?
Current infection rates of 0.2% in the entire county with many cities much lower hardly seems like a “pandemic” worth ruining lives, businesses and the economy.
Open up everything now!
@E=mc2,
There are two agencies that license LTCF in CA – Department of Social Services (assisted living, board and care) and the California Department of Public Health (nursing homes)
the majority of the LTCF cases are in nursing homes. There is a table of nursing homes by county here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/SNFsCOVID_19.aspx
And can you explain how 24 out of 32 skilled nursing facilities in the county have had cases in either patients or staff? What went wrong?