Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Thursday Jan.14, 2021.
All information is from the Contra Costa County Health Dept.:
- Total cases (since March) – 49,759
- Recovered cases – 42,153
- Deaths – 410
- Total active confirmed cases – 7,196
- One person under 30 years old has died (19-30 age range)
- 201 deaths in Contra Costa County nursing homes.
- There are currently 62 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 250
- Occupied ICU beds – 156 (61 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 21 (4.2%) (Bay Area region is at 3.4%, according to the State of CA)
- Available ventilators – 169
PREVIOUS DAY NUMBERS SHOWN BELOW:
Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Wednesday Jan.13, 2021.
All information is from the Contra Costa County Health Dept.:
- Total cases (since March) – 49,082
- Recovered cases – 41,361
- Deaths – 395
- Total active confirmed cases – 7,326
- One person under 30 years old has died (19-30 age range)
- 196 deaths in Contra Costa County nursing homes.
- There are currently 60 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 263
- Occupied ICU beds – 155 (72 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 24 (5.0%) (Bay Area region is at 4.7%, according to the State of CA)
- Available ventilators – 164
17 comments
Sunday Dec.20, 2020
“There are currently 16 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes”
Thursday Jan.14, 2021
“There are currently 62 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes”
NOT Good
Makes me wonder if they changed the reporting metric definition.
I once heard you had to have three cases to be considered an outbreak, but recently someone told me it is now 1 case. Unfortunately (for me), I cannot find a source of truth which defines that statistic on a county website.
@parent – the one vs. two depends on the type of facility. See https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/ltcf with the relevant paragraph being:
There’s more in there about the definitions of Monitored outbreaks and Resolved outbreaks.
I don’t think I’ve seen a definition that used three cases to define an outbreak. It’s always been one or two cases.
It is absolutely criminal that there is a single outbreak in any LTCF
Well, when “outbreak” means a single patient, then you have to wonder who came up with these metrics. And, how is that criminal? Staff have to come in to work and care for these people, as their loved ones abandoned them there. All nursing homes let family know that nursing homes were bad places to be when this hit. Want to know how many family members took their “loved one” home with them? Yep…
If someone who was transferred from a nursing home/long term care facility to the hospital dies in the hospital, does it count as a nursing home death, or is it only those that died inside the nursing home that are counted in that category?
From what I was told by a trusted source who would be in a position to know, it DOES NOT count as a nursing home death if they are transferred to the hospital.
Whether that is true, I don’t know. If it is true, we have been mislead.
@jp5air – That’s a good question. It used to be that if someone was transferred to a hospital and they died within two weeks it was counted as a nursing home death. The logic was that the person had been under the care of the hospital long enough that they could not blame the nursing home.
I have been wondering if that rule was still in effect for COVID-19 hospitalization and death reporting. The case and death numbers for non-LTCF people seem unusually high to me. I have wondered if many of these these were LTCF residents that survived more than two weeks in the hospital and thus are reported as non-LTCF. I know that COVID-19 is deadly for people age 80 on up but with a small handful of exceptions, the people I know in that age group are sheltering in place to an extreme.
One of the things I have been watching with some interest is a graph that shows just the number of tests vs. the number of new cases. I uploaded copy to https://imgur.com/a/cUuKN4K.
The blue lines are the number of tests per day with the thicker of the two being the 7-day rolling average.
The red lines are the number of new cases per day with the thicker of the two being the 7-day rolling average.
The downward spikes are the weekends where there is much less testing.
I also have a graph of the 7-day rolling average of the positivity rate on https://imgur.com/a/cUuKN4K. The reason for the spike from December 19th to December 29th is that there was much less community testing during the holidays. We continued to do medically necessary tests. Those always have a much higher positivity rate as we are testing people with symptoms to confirm a COVID-19 diagnosis.
The good news is that the positivity rate has stopped climbing and has held steady for at least the first week of January.
Another bit of good news is that the current positivity rate, which is about 10%, is only 2% to 3% higher than the peak rate seen in the last two weeks of July. Hopefully it will start declining.
The bad news is we are still many times higher in positivity rate and number of cases than what it takes to get back to the Red Zone……..where life can start to happen again.
I have said this before and I will say it again. Every day they have the stats down to a tee but for some reason the hospitals don’t tell them how many people died that day from covid. You would think that would be the easiest info to get. Doesn’t make sense.
What kind of new math is the County Health Department using? If you have 156 occupied ICU beds, and 21 available ICU beds, then you have a total of 177 ICU beds in CoCo County. Divide 21 available ICU beds by the total ICU beds (177) and the available % is 11.8%. Yet the CoCo Health Dept. comes up with 4.2%. Please show how they come up with this figure?????
How long does vaccine protection going to last, is this going to be yearly thing like flu shots ?
I don’t think anyone knows for sure yet.
It will likely be yearly. That way they can control us more. They say they don’t know how long it lasts right now…
FEAR PORN 🙄
ICU availability is ~11%, not 4.2% as reported above. Occupied beds = 156. Available beds = 21. That makes for 177 total ICU beds, for an availability of ~11%. What am I missing?
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