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- 1,375 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 180 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday in Contra Costa County.)
- 9,876 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 99 of the 157 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 31 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- 84 of the 157 deaths have been people over the age of 81.
- 6 people under the age of 50 (two in the 31-40 age group, and four 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.
- 1,326 tests were conducted yesterday in Contra Costa County. The seven day positive average is not available at this time, according to the county.
- 589 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 145 occupied ICU beds in Contra Costa County. 36 of those are occupied by COVID-19 patients. 46 ICU beds are currently available.
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The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
One more time for those in the back:
People are dying WITH covid, NOT from it.
One more time for everyone.
If you have pre-existing health conditions, COVID has a higher chance of being the REASON for your early demise. No COVID and you live your normal expectancy.
@ LL Cool J
Agree! Doctor’s get the big bucks if the patient dies from COVID (even though they really died from a heart attack).
One more time for everyone:
If you have pre-existing health conditions or are otherwise risk averse, stay home.
@raiderette Jen, please stop spreading misinformation. My cousin is a doctor in Boston who got it. She’s 29, luckily she recovered in a week but she did get very sick and because she deals with cancer patients, had to take ample time off. That’s why it’s important to stop the spread, it can easily spread through young and healthy people to elderly and ill. Doctors do not recieve money personally if a patient has covid. Hospitals recieve money to help deal with the crisis. Intended to pay for extra equipment and sanitary supplies. They’re not profiting off of people getting sick as people like to theorize.
So we shouldn’t be seeing an uptick in deaths generally? Just re-labeling deaths that would happen anyway? If you are right, LL Cool J, then there shouldn’t be any significant excess mortality.
Q. Is that borne out by the data?
A. Nope. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
A few caveats to remember:
1) Recovered just means you had it and didn’t die. It does not mean that you recovered and are not suffering longer term effects, many of which we are now learning about.
2) When looking at these rates remember three parts that can you make your outcome likely much worse on average –
1) The older you are…
2) The fatter you are…
3) The more health issues you have…
For looking at your own risk – you need to include these factors – because the “average” includes a lot of young people, a lot of fit people and a lot of people without pre-existing conditions – if you don’t belong in all three categories your risk is higher.
I totally agree. People need to be focused on their own health, so if you do get Covid-19, you reduce your risks of serious complications. Lose weight, quit smoking, quit drinking, eat healthy and exercise regularly. It strengthens your immunity.
Overweight and obese men on ventilators, with underlying health conditions. They’re not dying of Covid-19, they’re dying from complications of Covid-19 that their immunity system couldn’t handle.
Be proactive and take your health seriously!
if you think people in Walnut Creek or Danville are following mask rules, open your eyes and have a look around.
Who cares. Blah, blah, blah. I
Can’t believe people are still buying into this BS.
Well put ZZ! I needed that chuckle today.
BernieM….”Normal expectancy”…what is than ? Another 3 days ?
You raise some good questions.
Are a higher proportion of people in low income areas volunteering to be tested?
Are low income populations more likely to test positive?
What are the financial incentives of testing positive?
Socioeconomic status is huge factor! People that have less income live a unhealthy lifestyle and that’s the truth. They have less resources to healthy foods and more resources to fast food. They have more health conditions and are more likely to be overweight. What do find in every corner of Richmond or Pittsburg? You don’t see a While Foods or Sprouts do you? You’ll find liquor stores and gun shops. Compare that to Alamo or Danville.
I live in the crappy part of Concord (though I wouldn’t call myself “low income”) and I don’t know a single person who has COVID. What data are you basing your statement on?
Half the town of Byron has been infected in the last 14 days. Is that possible? What in the heck have they been doing?
@traumaRx,
You’re full of it. There is not a liquor store or gun shop on every corner in Pittsburg. Not everyone who lives there is low income and same with Richmond.
Unless you call Big 5 in Pittsburg a gun shop (which is akin to calling Safeway a pharmacy), there’s not a gun shop in Pittsburg OR Richmond.
TraumaRx has never been shy about using hyperbole or downright fiction to make a point.
There is a higher rate among people who are front line workers. Many of our front line workers live in multi-generational homes which makes the risk for infection even higher.
This virus is killing even the healthy. It is also killing healthy young people.
We probably have twice as many deaths but not everyone with a pre-existing condition gets an autopsy or a test. Testing has been limited in the past.
The Federal Government is helping to defray the cost of this virus. The Hospitals are taking a huge hit because elective surgeries have been cancelled and people are afraid of going to the Hospital now and staying at home and dying because they aren’t taking care of their cancer or their heart disease.
Hospitals are investing this money into ventilators and other things that needed to be put into place.
No one is getting rich off of this extra money.
If you don’t think this is real try going to YouTube.com and put in New York and Refrigerated Trucks and you can see how New York had to store the massive amounts of dead.
This narrative is so stupid.
It isn’t really that surprising: who can work from home and who cannot? Anybody who can afford living in Walnut Creek is way more likely to be working remotely than someone in Richmond. More likely to live with more people per room in their residence. More likely also to have co-morbidities.
Concord actually has very few deaths outside of care facilities. The big contrast in the numbers is cases per 100k and the deaths breakdown of LTCF vs non-LTCF. The cities with significant number of deaths are either the lower-income areas or has LTCF outbreak(s).