Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Tuesday Jan.5, 2021:
- Total cases (since March) – 43,223
- Recovered cases – 36,714
- Deaths – 348
- Total active confirmed cases – 6,161
- One person under 30 years old has died (19-30 age range)
- 171 deaths in Contra Costa County nursing homes.
- There are currently 53 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 269
- Occupied ICU beds – 142 (71 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 27 (8.1%) (Bay Area region is 5.9%)
- Available ventilators – 168
PREVIOUS DAY NUMBERS SHOWN BELOW:
Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Monday Jan.4, 2021:
- Total cases (since March) – 42,632
- Recovered cases – 36,133
- Deaths – 347
- Total active confirmed cases – 6,152
- Nobody under 30 years old has died
- 154 deaths in Contra Costa County nursing homes
- There are currently 50 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 259
- Occupied ICU beds – 142 (65 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 27 (8.1%) (Bay Area region is 9.7%)
- Available ventilators – 173
1 death reported yesterday , but yesterday it says 154 deaths in nursing homes in contra costa, but today 171….? This doesn’t make sense to me
Oh, got it!! Thank you! I did not think of that.
Just a question? “It says 142 ICU beds occupied and 27 ICU available(8.1%)
its actually 19%? am I missing something?
They have some funky reporting metric that they use to lower the percentage if more than 30% of the ICU is COVID related …
Yeah, I emailed the county health board and some yahoo from there emailed me back. It must be the new common core math program that they are using … hey, when they could not do it with simple math, they created their own version to try and keep us down.
Actually your math is off a bit:
142+27 = 169 (Total Beds)
27/169 = 15.97%
But you also have to take into account the staff to care for those beds, so while there may bed 169 total beds it seems they only have staff for 155 of those, so knocking 14 off the total (27-14), leaving around 13 left that are staffable. 13 / 155 = 8.4% (roughly).
Hopefully the staff numbers goes up and the percentage with it.
Also, holidays makes the numbers wonky so…
@ERas,
The county website states that “The percentage of adult ICU beds is adjusted downwards if the percent of the adult ICU beds occupied by COVID-19 ICU patients is over 30%. The ICU capacity is reduced by 0.5% for each 1% over the 30% threshhold.”
It is some COVID math calculation that the State does for reasons that are undisclosed. There were articles in the SF Chronicle and East Bay Times a week or so ago about this very calculation.
Our county and the state for that matter, is failing in contact tracing…the goal is 90% contacts identified when only 55.3% achieved; 15.3% of those are actually interviewed for week 12/27-1/2.
The mitigation efforts are not working with the nursing homes as we now have 53 active Covid-19 outbreaks! And don’t get me started with the outbreak in the Kaiser San Jose Emergency Department…
Ah yes, you mean the inflatable Covid… I mean Christmas tree costume… yeah that was a dumb…
So it looks as though as of today, January 5, 2021, there has now been one (1) person under the age of 30 (between 19-30) who has passed away in CoCo County. 🙁
On another note, when are we going to be informed that our local hospitals are operating under ‘contingency care status’? Claycord, our citizens should be aware that some care and services may be delayed, once again…
https://cchealth.org/medicalcenter/pdf/Contingency-Care-Notice.pdf
the thing I love about these stats is that the information is right there for people to see…even if they don’t want to see it.
We have been told “It’s those darn republicans not wearing their masks and spreading it”…shoot, just yesterday I was told ‘if republicans just wore their mask, this would all be over already’…
yet looking at these numbers we see heavy democratic areas are the highest ‘cases per 100,000’…add to that, the LA area (heavily blue) is getting hammer, possibly running out of oxygen!
maybe it isn’t a left/right issue…maybe we should stop trying to blame the other party and start looking at why the spread is happening…immoral politicians and leaders trying to ‘have rules for thee but not for me’, over broad restrictions not tailored to the actual risks, and individual (not political party) failings…
You are correct. The fact this was ever made political was the first huge mistake.
Masks in public indoor places should not even be an issue now.
It was all the family gatherings and travel. People are sick of this, I know we are. That being said, we only see family outside and with masks on. Thank goodness we live in California where we can still do that.