County Deputy Health Officer Dr. Ori Tzvieli spoke to Contra Costa Supervisors this afternoon regarding COVID-19.
Below is a quick summary of the information he provided to start the meeting:
- A “few thousand” COVID-19 tests didn’t get to the lab to be tested. Tests are missing.
- Total COVID-19 case count and current case count is not accurate at this time for Contra Costa County
- They are hoping to have data issues fixed by next week.
- The county is no longer looking for contact tracing volunteers.
- Contra Costa County will not allow elementary schools to apply for waivers to open for in-person class.
Dr. Ori Tzvieli also took a few questions from the public.
Below are his answers to some of the questions.
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- He knows the decisions they make are not always popular. He says he hears from both sides.
- They will look into adding hospitalization data by age group to the COVID-19 dashboard, but he doesn’t know if that’s possible because hospitals are “busy and overwhelmed.”
- Hospitalizations and deaths are much more likely to happen in older age groups.
- Schools can apply for a waiver to reopen for in-person classes after the county COVID-19 numbers stop increasing for a total of two weeks.
- The State of California currently has no timeline for reopening.
- Contra Costa County will remain on the state watchlist until further notice.
- They are educating nursing homes on infection control. They are taking several other steps to try and stop the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes. They are currently working with 44 nursing homes. 96 of the 151 deaths in Contra Costa County have been in nursing homes.
- Contra Costa County is not currently concerned with hospital capacity.
- Remdesivir is the only proven treatment for COVID-19.
- They are concerned with both cases and deaths.
- About 3 out of every thousand people who get COVID-19 will die.
- They are trying to buy time in the county until more treatments and/or a vaccine are developed.
- All state prisoners who are released into Contra Costa County must enter 14 days of quarantine in a hotel room once they’re released.
- They are concerned with the upcoming flu season. He says Contra Costa residents should get the flu shot.
- He understands the public frustration with holding school on Zoom.
- Eating inside a restaurant is a higher risk than they previously realized.
A video of today’s meeting will be posted when the county makes it available.
Are they working on their resumes?
Do they think the “mad black woman” kammie (wait comma-la)
is going to get them the loot?
When are the dancing Marxist mask police videos coming?
They lost the tests because they are doctoring the results. The testing capacity has increased to the point they can’t keep up with creating false positive tests to keep the infection rate high and the economy closed down.
This is all a farce, all y’all are being played.
Btw, why don’t you ask india and other 3rd world countries why their death rate is significantly lower per thousand than the US. Hint, they also have a problem with malaria ;).
Don’t @ me commies.
If you tell me they take Hydroxychloroquine I’m gonna flip. Health and science is total bs if that’s the case and this is totally political.
This is the biggest scam played on humans ever! Using us for whatever plan they have, pick one.
@sam why don’t you look and see what is actually happening in India which is REAL LIFE results.
If hydroxy works, then our government let thousands of Americans die. And the whole world is watching dr faucci kill people. Crazy
The drug being used in malaria stricken countries has been used safely for decades. It’s cheap as well, so big pharma (and their little minions in government) will not make a lot of money from it. There’s incentive to suppress its benefits and use, and when there is incentives there is actions.
The argument could be made the counts in these third world countries are off, but our counts in the US aren’t exactly accurate either (looking at you CCC county) yet their deaths per thousand are significantly lower. Why?
The simplest answer is many times the most correct.
To LOL – There is no need to ask any other country why their death rate and why the virus is slowing down – people in other countries listen to their health people and stay home, WEAR MASKS, do not go to parties, etc. We Americans think we know it all AND WE DO NOT….. If we all played by the rules our death rate would also slow down and we would have fewer cases per day – Try it you will like it.
@james That’s really cute that you pretend to believe that. There is no way possible that other countries listen to health people better or stay home, its not possible. . Some countries don’t even have health people. Maybe that’s what you’re argument is. Get rid of all the “health people” and this thing is gone..I’m in. Good point
The death rate is .003 per the counties numbers, how much more do you think it will fall if we destroyed the economy and our lives any more.
You doomers are getting out of hand, I can’t even deal with you people anymore.
Mitch, I’m not sure why this has to keep being explained but the death i slow because of the social distancing guidelines. That’s not a sign that the virus isn’t dangerous; it’s a sign that these measures work.
Here is a question for thought. How come Barbershops and nail salons can not open. Have customers 6 feet from each other, both parties wear a mask and the barber and the esthetician need to wear a face shield in addition to a mask? That is safer than going to a grocery store and the County lets these people make a living. It’s not rocket science.
I got my hair cut (in an open County) back in May. By some miracle of God, I’m still alive! OR, more likely, getting one’s hair cut is perfectly safe and this never-ending lockdown is a bunch of crap. I’m going with this never-ending lockdown is a bunch of crap.
Prisoners agreeing to a quarantine? Sure they will, scouts honor!
Zero credibility, quit wasting our time.
Meanwhile the Governor is in hiding over the number crunching scandal.
So funny I forgot to laugh! What a crock!
He is full of Sh*t . I work Full time in the ED of a hospital in ccc and we are NOT that busy or overwhelmed . They are skewing the numbers, Trying to keep the bs agenda going . The virus is real , the response is bullsh*t. We don’t need to be locked down , this is political bs !!!
Whoa! This guy works and 1 hospital and he says there’s no problem everywhere! Well that’s empirical evidence if I have ever heard it! (/S)
The evidence speaks for itself. From the county itself, 3 out of 1000 people with Covid will die for a whopping .03% “death rate”
Yes, there is a disease and you don’t want it, but the response is a SCAM SCAM SCAM.
I work in two huge hospital!!!! We are not overwhelmed, and remdisiver does not work !!!! This is the biggest scam!!! Go drive to your local hospital, these people are complete idiots!!! I cannot believe the insane idiots that are ruining this county , notice the hospital staff are not sick!!
Lies lies lies….
Remember, “We’re all in this together.”
https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I
James, our country still hasn’t learned anything. Countries with high numbers have curfews and enforced street patrol. It’s unfortunate that people think this is a scam. Obviously they haven’t been impacted personally, and don’t care about spreading COVID
@Julie you think in the slums of India, where people are stacked on top of each other in squalor, have foot patrols? Do you know how many people are in India and how big it is?
If this virus was as scary as you doomers claim thousands if not millions in the indian slums would be sick or dying. Is that happening?
The disease is not a scam but the overwhelming fear mongering from the media and politicians who are trying to use this for the political aspirations is a scam.
3 out of 1000 people who CATCH covid will die. Right now, about 1.5% of the population of the US has caught COVID, assuming that each infection count is a unique person (which we know is not the case!).
We also know that some states (Florida) have cheated their numbers by including non COVID deaths in their numbers (motorcyclist dies in accident reported as COVID death). We also know that if you have a symptom, you are counted as a COVID death even if that was NOT the cause of death …
So yeah … we have not learned anything. No, our country has followed the politicians and media fear and the sheep have blindly followed believing this to be the end of the world.
This guy should be fired. Lost tests? No timeline for reopening?
Coco County Hospitals are NOT overwhelmed. Complete BS
Telling people to get a flu shot?? They are more likely to die from Covid if they are vaccinate with the flu shot. What an idiot. Virus interference. It’s WELL-DOCUMENTED.
Who is this joker and what master does he serve?