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- 15,734 total cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 101 cases added to the total number of cases since yesterday.
- 859 active cases of COVID-19 in Contra Costa County.
- 45 COVID-19 patients are currently hospitalized in Contra Costa County.
- 14,777 people have fully recovered from COVID-19 in Contra Costa.
- 110 of the 199 deaths were in long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 18 active outbreaks of COVID-19 at Contra Costa County long-term care facilities.
- There are currently 143 occupied ICU beds in Contra Costa County (both COVID and non-COVID patients). 56 ICU beds are currently available.
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CASES BY CITY:
The population of Contra Costa County is about 1.1-million.
It’s encouraging to see that the number of covid-19 patients in the hospital is now at the lowest level since July 1st. If the number of cases doesn’t increase significantly, we have a chance of escaping the purple zone by the end of the month.
Of course some people are jumping the gun a bit, like the people hosting a large party down the street from me this afternoon. At least it looks like the activity is mostly outside, so maybe everyone will be OK.
Does anyone know when our county moves into red?
Covid will magically disappear on Nov 4, 2020
When Emperor Newsom lets us….
Ya blame Newsome for people making this worse. You do understand if people just wore a mask and stopped the parties. We would have been open ALONG time ago?
@me
nope, they would have found something else to hold us back.
@sideline you do realize that over half of the deaths in the county, and many of the cases are due to outbreaks in seniors’ care facilities?
@Me, not really, because there are lots of essential workers and their families who can’t just hole up. And no surprise, case counts are highest in the blue collar parts of our county. It feels better to blame other people who are having fun (or protesting) but the reality is more mundane: people who have to work in person in close proximity to others, who have to share transportation, and who live in large households, are where the spread happens most.
We had numbers down super low in May, and then what? They just go back up again, so you can’t be “done” that way. There’s no way to eradicate a respiratory virus with an animal reservoir. We need a sustainable strategy, not this fiction that we can finish it off by being very obedient for a few more weeks. The only way to be done is to get to sufficient immunity that it becomes just another endemic bug rather than an epidemic with rapid spikes. We can get there by exposure or vaccination, or some combination thereof. If effective vaccines start becoming available for the most at-risk by the end of this year, then *maybe *it was worth it to hold out with restrictions for months. But what if the first round of vaccines are a dud? We would be better off riding out the spread of the virus for a couple of months, just slowing it enough to keep hospitals functioning and encouraging the at-risk to be really cautious until the younger population builds up a buffer of immunity. Instead we have the worst of both worlds: unending restrictions but still high amount of spread, not targeted among the young but distributed into the vulnerable population as well. So we are going to have a longer and more deadly epidemic than we would have with age-targeted strategy. Unless a vaccine saves the day really quick.
A week from Tuesday if we continue to stay under 5%
Covid Expert: It doesn’t work that way. The positivity rate is one metric. The other is numbers of infections per 100,000 population. It has to fall below 7 for a county to move from Substantial to Widespread, and stay there for two weeks. Contra Costa is above 7, it is at 7,7. We have a ways to go.
Right, but the website says that our current cases per 100k is 6.5. So if that stays below 7 for the next two weeks we get there, right?
I just checked the county health website. Today is says 7.1.
Open the damned economy now.
Isolate/quarantine vulnerable populations and let the rest of us do what we need to do.
Yeah, like aunt Nancy! These numbers aren’t accurate.
West Nile is on the rise, lucky dems!
Everything goes back to normal when Californians rise up and recall the governor and file lawsuits. That’s it, that’s the only way out of this UNCONSTITUTIONAL dictatorship called the “Nation State of California” who has now entered us into the treasonous illegal compact called the “Western States Pact” All YOU have to do is sign the recall and join the lawsuits. Dictators will NEVER give up their power without a court order.