Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Friday Jan.8, 2021:
- Total cases (since March) – 44,967
- Recovered cases – 38,050
- Deaths – 371
- Total active confirmed cases – 6,546
- One person under 30 years old has died (19-30 age range)
- 183 deaths in Contra Costa County nursing homes.
- There are currently 56 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 273
- Occupied ICU beds – 149 (70 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 24 (6.7%) (Bay Area region is at 3.0%, according to the State of CA, Contra Costa Health says Bay Area region is at 8.1%)
- Available ventilators – 168
PREVIOUS DAY NUMBERS SHOWN BELOW:
Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Thursday Jan.7, 2021:
- Total cases (since March) – 44,274
- Recovered cases – 37,443
- Deaths – 355
- Total active confirmed cases – 6,476
- One person under 30 years old has died (19-30 age range)
- 174 deaths in Contra Costa County nursing homes.
- There are currently 57 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 273
- Occupied ICU beds – 145 (65 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 33 (12.2%) (Bay Area region is 3.5%)
- Available ventilators – 168
With all the lies and misinformation you have to wonder if any of these deaths were caused by another underlying condition sad for these people but it would be nice to know the complete truth
@Tom~I found an interesting data tracker with CDC for Contra Costa County which shows people of any age with certain underlying medical conditions are at increased risk of severe Covid-19 illness (2018)
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#underlying-med-conditions
Obesity (BMI>=30) 23.1%
Diagnosed Diabetes 9.8%
Heart Disease 5.4%
COPD 5.2%
Chronic Kidney Disease 2.8%
I know one truth–our health is declining as we are not receiving proper preventative care…
You’ll never know…follow the money!!!!
People still believe there was a fraudulent election despite zero proof anywhere, all lawsuits dismissed across the country and multiple recounts .. so it’s natural to believe the SAME people would believe that every scientist, government, and experts across the planet are all lying for no reason whatsoever .. but it would be nice for them to accept the complete truth.
Did I do that right?
Here’s the truth – there’s a virus causing illness and death across the entire planet affecting people of all ages and every county, country and continent is trying to deal with it as best as they can given what they have and are able to do. It’s safe to assume nobody wants to deal with this for the next 100 years and nobody wants to see other people die … so INTENTIONALLY lying or giving misinformation isn’t going to solve anything – anywhere. People like to attribute Covid deaths to “other things”. Sure – people with cancer can still be hit by a car or die from another illness, but they still had cancer, right? It’s easier to discount what you don’t want to believe in than to admit there’s any actual problem that needs to be dealt with – which has been the “California way” since I can remember. “Ignore a problem until it can’t be ignored any longer” should be the state’s motto.
Then we have the people citing, “if you’re afraid, stay home and let others do whatever they want” – which is a great argument if you completely ignore the fact that those people want other people to serve them in a store, restaurant or elsewhere which means a lack of choice on the employee’s part. Bills still need to get paid, the government has failed in any and every form of financial assistance since this all began nearly a year ago so people are forced to go out and make a living to keep a house over their heads and their families fed decently enough. Certain people (who post here) might not care bout how other people are doing as they only see themself – another one of California’s greatest mottos … “think about yourself and don’t care about others”. Where other communities come together and help each other, people in this area step on others to get one step ahead.
But hey – it’s all lies and misinformation and all the deaths were caused by something else – if there were even deaths at all, right? We ignore absolutely proven facts to push a narrative that makes us feel better about ourselves and avoid feeling anything but “okay”. California .. “it is what it is as long as I don’t have to deal with it.” – another great motto for the state.
(In before “then leave”. Another great debate point for people who lack any forward-thinking capabilities. I’ll leave it at that since I’m sure that’ll take more explaining and 3/4 of the people on this site didn’t even read what I already posted here anyway.)
They will never tell us the truth. If we knew the truth, I doubt we would be locked like we are.
Yes COVID is real, but is it really as bad as a media and politicians making it out to be … if so, would Newscum have his kids in school or being dining inside of restaurants? Or the other politicians that have been caught violating their own and the state orders? If it was really that bad, and they should know considering they should be getting the full truth, I don’t think they would be taking the personal actions that they are. But since they are out, kids in school … I do not believe it as severe.
Consider this: Newsom was dining that night at the French Laundry with lobbyists from the California Medical Association. Apparently, those CMA lobbyists didn’t think things were so bad that they needed to “stay at home.”
Consider this: Dr. Birk who, along with Dr. Fauci, had advised Trump on the virus since early on, resigned because over Thanksgiving she didn’t think things were so bad that she couldn’t travel to meet with family and celebrate the holiday, against her own “stay at home” warnings.
Consider this: any number of medical professionals have spoken out publicly saying the “stay at home” orders are doing more damage to one’s health, mental and physical, than the virus.
Consider this: a gay nurse at CPMC travelled to a “super spreader event” prior to getting the vaccine and came down with the covid virus. He had priority to receive the vaccine but travelled without it anyway.
I will practice mask wearing, hand washing, and social distancing, but when members of the medical profession are not taking the “stay at home” orders seriously, you have to ask,”What do they know that I don’t?”
@Parent
Let’s address a few things.
1. Yes it’s wrong for the politicians to be out and about. They are human and can get a test anytime they want. But yes it’s ok to be mad that Gavin, etc. aren’t following the same rules.
2. Gavin’s kids are in school because the school is following all the proper protocols just like numerous private schools around our County. You’d have your kids in school if it was open.
3. Truth is what you want to believe. you’ve chosen this is a lie so you think they always lie.
4. The Drs have been able to get a handle on Covid and how to treat it. The issue currently isn’t the severity of Covid it’s for the extreme cases that need to be hospitalized and there isn’t enough space. Look at LA and the rationing of oxygen.
5. You aren’t under house arrest, stores are open, parks are open. you can leave your house. All they are asking you to do is limit contact with others and wear a mask.
Fact based conspiracy theories must be discounted and any affiliated medical professionals added to AOC’s blacklist.
Now, finish your Kool-aid.
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How about these medical facilities increase the number of ICU beds?
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The ICU beds? Not just those with Covid are using them
You can’t just have more ICU beds without staffing to take care of them. You can’t have more staff unless they are trained ICU staff. Most ICU nurses are in charge of 2 patients. As of now some ICU RNs are in charge of 3 to 4 patients. You can’t use more ventilators without trained staff to use them. WE DONT HAVE THE RESOURCES. Staff are getting sick and unable to come in and care for patients. In some states staff with covid are being told you’re not that sick you can still treat covid patients.
As someone mentioned items are being rationed. In LA EMT are told not to bring in emergencies unless they’re stabilized. Oxygen is being rationed. We are being told to try to have patients return their oxygen concentrators of they’re using it as needed.
Once again this is now about the deaths, who gets Covid, or the percentage of survival. It’s about what we have and being able to care for ones who need it.
Freaking unbelievable. So no one even knows what % of ICU beds are available. GOOD LUCK WITH INDEFINITE SHUTDOWNS!!!! When will you open your eyes!
the number of icu bed must be certified before they can be used.
certification take time and money.
So does a vaccine . If the government can through the kitchen sink into developing a vaccine, with emergency use authorization. Why can’t there be the same for ICU beds?
Good point Tom, I have heard that the murder rate in San Jose has dropped to a 10 year low because some of the victims had covid at the time they were shot so they were counted as Covid victims.
Did you also hear about the election being stolen from Trump? And the massive number of “witnesses” attesting to this theft?
California has some of the strictest policies of any state in an attempt to slow the transmission of the virus and it’s not working. People will do what people want to do and the virus will do it’s thing. Time to adopt a different strategy. It seems the whole goal at this point should be to have enough ICU capacity for the surges that are inevitable and the medical personnel to staff them. At this we have failed. Now we’re stuck in a reactionary scramble mode because the virus was under estimated and we were not properly prepared. If we are lucky, maybe we can be better prepared the next time this happens and hope we can get a handle on what’s happening now.
What do you recommend?
I agree MoJo. The State should have been focusing on building up ICU capacity as they knew there was going to be a winter surge.
Additionally, they already knew that a lockdown was not going to work. LA County has pretty much been locked down since March and still leads the State in cases and is responsible for most of the surge.
I think it would have been more beneficial to keep the color coded restrictions in place, but tweak some of the requirements instead of resorting to the shelter in place. The goal should have been educating people on doing things safely. For example, they could have left outdoor dining open with limits on the number of people at a table, reinforced that tents had to be open on two sides; reduced capacity at hair salons, set standards for meeting people outside of households, treated pet grooming businesses similar to veterinary offices, etc. The list goes on an on. Instead, they picked winners and losers without financial support and with contradictory restrictions.
How unfortunate short sighted DEMs running CA did away with pandemic preparedness program
Governor Schwarzenegger set up.
In 2006 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a powerful set of medical weapons to deploy in the case of large-scale emergencies and natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and pandemics.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-27/coronavirus-california-mobile-hospitals-ventilators
The rational forward looking Governor Schwarzenegger set up a mobile hospitals program along with stockpiling of 50 million N95 masks, 2,400 portable ventilators along with 21,000 additional patient beds in ready to set up kit form in a warehouse up in Sacramento.
“They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to the injured and sick within 72 hours.
Each hospital would be the size of a football field, with a surgery ward, intensive care unit and X-ray equipment. Medical response teams would also have access to a massive stockpile of emergency supplies: 50 million N95 respirators, 2,400 portable ventilators and kits to set up 21,000 additional patient beds wherever they were needed.
Pat Brown’s DUMB son, Gov. moonbeam did away with those hospitals, equipment was given away, sold off or junked. Just how liberals, with their immense egos and Hubris, think.
Both those masks an portable hospitals with their ICU’s and ventilators would come in handy today but DEMs didn’t want to pay money for upkeep and storage so they shut program down and got rid of it all.
“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
— Ronald Reagan
DEM incompetence usually only costs CA residents their tax dollars . . . . . . This time it’s costing lives.
Please Mayor update the table.
The table on top is from yesterday.
Today’s number of cases is 45874, about 900 more than yesterday.
@Sancho – Our health is declining mainly due to poor diet and lack of exercise imho, not a lack prevent healthcare.
@mom~Exercise is a preventative measure and gyms are essential for some that need the equipment but they are closed. I ask who has had an in person physical this last year? I haven’t. And the County knows a mental health crises is on the horizon…
We breathe in so much smoke from wildfires every year we’ll probably all die from lung cancer anyway.
Just an old guy that uses math the old way.
If there are 149 occupied ICU beds and 24 available ICU beds, then there are 173 total ICU beds. Dividing 24 available beds by 173 total beds gives you 13.8%