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- 1,519 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 136 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday in Contra Costa County.
- 10,975 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 102 of the 169 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 35 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- 89 of the 169 deaths have been people over the age of 81.
- 7 people under the age of 50 (two in the 31-40 age group, and five 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.
- 2,991 tests were conducted yesterday in Contra Costa County. The seven day positive average is not available at this time, according to the county.
- There are currently 136 occupied ICU beds in Contra Costa County. 26 of those are occupied by COVID-19 patients. 57 ICU beds are currently available.
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The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
We need to reach herd immunity before the other “Flu” season starts. Open everything up, make masks optional, stay at home (with Joe Biden) if you are vulnerable or prone to hysteria, and lets look at one another as fellow human beings instead of possible carriers of a deadly pathogen attempting to kill us.
Chuckie.. you are a threat to society. Just because you or someone you know hasn’t been affected by this doesn’t mean you should take it seriously. It’s people like you is the reason why America has so many cases and can’t get it under control. Americans can be a entitled until they get it and then change their tune. I don’t wish this upon you but think of others.
Chris
There is a difference between ‘taking it seriously’ and panicking.
I take this seriously, but I do not believe isolation and masks are the solution. We are killing more people BECAUSE of the media and politicians response to COVID then are dying FROM COVID. That to me is the biggest thing that people, like you based on your post, fail to understand. Just because we believe a mask is not necessary does not mean we do not take it serious.
Herd Immunity is not a realistic solution and certainly not possible by the start of flu season. Mayo Clinic researchers estimate that It’s estimated that “94% of the population must be immune to interrupt the chain of transmission.” Currently less than 2% of the population has been infected, scale this up to 94% and this would be massively overwhelming to the healthcare system. Not to mention the long term effect that those who have recovered are continuing to experience. COVID infections are not a one and done type scenario, many are experiencing long term debilating flares – this alone makes herd immunity irresponsible.
Relax folks, as some of the more prolific posters have repeatedly mentioned, “it’s just a little flu”. Nothing to worry about, so move along, even though your grandmother just died, or a best friend, or a neighbor.
Those people can die of the flu as well, including small children. But somehow it’s more tragic if it’s COVID?
Yes, loved ones can die of Covid. They could also die of cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, accidents, suicide… We cannot remain locked down indefinitely. If you are too afraid to go outside then stay in and watch tv for the rest of your life. That way you won’t die of Covid! But you cannot hide from everything.
FYI COVID-19 is much deadlier than the seasonal flu.
Yeah we could also get hit by a bus. To minimize that we use crosswalks and obey traffic signals.
“FYI COVID-19 is much deadlier than the seasonal flu.”
To a very small, almost statistically insignificant segment of the population. The seasonal flu is far more deadly to young children than COVID. Why don’t we lock down every flu season? The flu vaccines each year are only a guess as to which strain of the flu is being treated.
To SF oh;
Cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, accidents and suicide are not contagious like Covid19. The selfish people in our society, those who disdain wearing a mask or who won’t socially distance are the primary reason this disease is going on so long. Think of others, not just yourself.
another fail by Rollo. So ignorant and so proud of it.
First, influenza vaccines do not “treat” they act to “prevent” disease.
Second, all current influenza vaccines are quadrivalent, meaning they are aimed to not only prevent one strain of influenza but four strains of influenza.
Third, they are much more than just a guess, there is quite some evidence to predict which strains of influenza will circulate each year.
Fourth, there are two distinct ways how over time influenza strains will differ from each other. They are anigenic drift and antigenic shift. Antigenic drift are small mutations over time and even if the current vaccine is not prefect it will still provide some level of protection against a strain that has drifted. Antigenic shift is a complete new strain. Antigenic shift is much less common, generally this leads to a pandemic. There have been four influenza pandemics in the last 100 years.
I notice JWB fails to address the fact that, unlike the flu, COVID has no significant effect on school age children and is deadly only to an extremely small segment of the population. And rather than answer the question on why we don’t shut down every flu season to “save the children”, he or she launches into the talking points used by corporate pharmaceutical giants to sell their flu vaccines. Not quite the “gotcha” he or she was hoping for.
Rollo as I said so ignorant and so proud of it. If science to you is a talking point, so be it. You clearly have no clue what you so proudly parrot around here. But of course you would not recognize this.
As to the effect of novel coronavirus on school age children, the virus has only been around for about half a year and the knowledge is still evolving. And of course, if you believe that 180,000 and counting deaths in the US alone so far is an “an extremely small segment of the population” that is your personal opinion.
What is this “science” stuff? Seems like the Wizard of OZ curtain that you are not supposed to look behind. Just like you are better off not knowing how sausage is made. Science and politics are very similar that way. Neither can be trusted. A headline screaming across the NY Times this morning was that scientists found someone who was re-infected with a mutating strain of coronavirus so while he had coronavirus once it does not keep him from getting it again. This changes everything and how we now have to think and plan according to the story. Of course, you can’t even find that story anymore on the NY Times just six hours later. They are off to discuss Trump. Its a joke how the information is so bad, so many lie so much, and the sheer incompetence of the “scientists.”
According to the stats above, and my probably bad math, the death to confirmed infections is about 1.3% in CC county. Still a lot of people if extrapolated to the whole country, but not 6 million.
Anyway, it’s been fairly well confirmed that the actual infection rate is some multiple of the confirmed infections. What that multiple is is somewhat up in the air, so I’m not going to do any math, but it almost certainly lowers the number of deaths to expect even further.
Someone’s grandma dies every day with our without COVID. This smoke is killing us all so it’s time to put the fires out now
The one added death – just COVID or was the bad air quality just a contributing factor? Another reason to wear a mask….
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The increase in cases is due to smoke-related issues.