Contra Costa County continues to trend in the right direction when it comes to COVID-19, county health services director Anna Roth told the Board of Supervisors this week.
“Our case rates have continued to go down this last month,” Roth said. “We’re now at 7.9 cases per 100,000 (residents); that’s compared to 13.2 cases per 100,000 a month ago, so that’s a 40 percent decrease.”
“Testing has gone down a little bit, but we are still at 5,500 new tests per day; that’s compared to about 6,700 per day a month ago,” Roth said.
Cases in county detention facilities have dwindled to zero and countywide hospitalizations are down as well.
“We are at 59 patients hospitalized currently, compared to 83 a month ago,” Roth said. “We have 18 people in critical care, and that’s compared to 37 a month ago.
The county is now administering about 3,800 vaccinations per day, 775 of which are first doses.
Some mask restrictions have eased this week in Contra Costa, in settings not open to the general public like gyms and offices. No more than 100 people can gather without masks, and the owner of the private facility must verify that everyone going maskless is fully vaccinated.
For restaurants and other indoor public venues, the county must enter the yellow tier of infection rate as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have fewer than 95 COVID-19 hospitalizations countywide (Contra Costa has 59) and either have a countywide vaccination rate of at least 80 percent (Contra Costa is at about 73 percent) or be eight weeks past the date the FDA approves vaccines for children ages 5 to 11.
So, Roth said:
“Testing has gone down a little bit, but we are still at 5,500 new tests per day; that’s compared to about 6,700 per day a month ago,” Roth said.
But my question is:
How many were positive or negative for Covid?
Because to me, that would make a big difference.
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You could go to the CC Health Dept web site and get that information.
Student athletes, fully vaccinated or not are required to test weekly to participate in school sports. Likely accounts for a good percentage of weekly testing in CCC.
Per CChealth dashboard as of 10/25, 2.2% average new test positive rate. https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/overview
Unvaccinated employees in indoor businesses like restaurants are required to test weekly as of November 1. Are their repeating weekly tests still counted as “new?”
It’s all theater, these ‘mandates’ will never, ever end in CoCoCo. Because it’s not about any virus, it’s all about control.
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Flu and cold season is here so we have to wonder how many flu and cold cases will be counted as covid? 🙄
The coco commies gotta keep their covid-19 boogie man alive for as long as possible.
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Good questions. I’ve wondered the same about the other counties v. CCC. It boils down to one woman: Kim McCarl. She has pushed the vaccine passport mandate in this county and is one of six on the health board. Remember this, Ms. McCarl is a communications officer, not a doctor and she does not believe in natural immunity or even medical exemptions. The entire board is discriminating and dividing families and friends—they have been doing this for over 1.5 years. McCarl was hired in March 2020 and seems to have become quite the authority on vaccines, virology and immunology. Dr. Farnitano’s salary is almost a half million—do you think anyone of these nincompoops have lost a paycheck or felt the brunt of their inept decisions?
Good questions. I’ve wondered the same about the other counties v. CCC. It boils down to one woman: Kim McCarl. She has pushed the vaccine passport mandate in this county and is one of six on the health board. Remember this, Ms. McCarl is a communications officer, not a doctor and she does not believe in natural immunity or even medical exemptions. The entire board is discriminating and dividing families and friends—they have been doing this for over 1.5 years. McCarl was hired in March 2020 and seems to have become quite the authority on vaccines, virology and immunology. Dr. Farnitano’s salary is almost a half million—do you think anyone of these nincompoops have lost a paycheck or felt the brunt of their inept decisions?
It’s time to pass out pink slips the the ringleaders of the COVID-19 fear mongering.
Let’s Go Brandon
Let’s go Faritano!!! You Quack!
“Cases” as in illness or positive swabs? Never can get a straight answer from them on this, also ,if cases are going down, I bet that signals them they need more control and another lock down is coming…come on, you know by now thats how this works.
Over here in our free state, we have been worshiping mask-free since Easter. We dine in mask free, shop, drive, walk and live mask free. You can wear a mask if you like and no one will attack you, but it is a matter of free choice and what you do with your own body. I got vaccinated but I know that there are people everywhere who have not because the mandates don’t make sense anymore than the settled-science that gets unsettled each day.
As someone else noted, a lot of people have joined the Branch Covidian church. I, for one do not like their theology.