Click on the image above to see how many cases of COVID-19 each city has in Contra Costa County.
The information was provided by the Contra Costa County Health Department.
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Click on the image above to see how many cases of COVID-19 each city has in Contra Costa County.
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I know my kids know people that believe they are infected but hospitals just tell them to stay home unless fever or feel really bad. Not even an offer to go get tested.
There is no need to get tested. Stay away from others and it will be contained.
@Kad, then why are celebrities, political figures, and even tigers getting tested? Containment without testing is only a half-hearted effort I believe, especially if you can be positive without symptoms! I also read an account of an older couple that were sick and went to the hospital and were turned away without testing. When the husband was finally admitted and diagnosed with Covid-19, it was too late. He and his wife died six minutes apart. Very scary. I know the testing is not easily accessible but this is something that needs to be considered.
If your symptoms are bad enough then you will get tested regardless of whether you’re celebrity or political figure or whoever. One of the guidelines is a fever over 100. It doesn’t mean that other people don’t have the virus, But if your symptoms are relatively mild they’re not gonna take up the resources to test them. Plus one of the most consistent symptoms is a high fever so without it it most likely is just the flu or cold.
Hey look!!!
Actual somewhat useful information from Cc Health
Concord is gigantic and we are one of the most clean cities. What’s up with the rest of y’all ewww
Walnut Creek has John Muir and Kaiser that people are sent to, so it would be higher number posting.
Can we get a metrics with how many people have since recovered that would be amazing
Here is a better stat I would want to know. Where were all these people tested at? Because if the majority went to like kaiser Walnut Creek, now your going to have a spread there. Good info to know.
That last column is confusing. What if a city doesn’t have 100,000 population? Please educate me. Thanks in advance.
It’s the rate of infection per 100,000 people.
Rate = number of infections divided by the city’s population.
So if a city had 100 residents and 50 were infected, the rate would be 0.5. To adjust it to 100,000 people, the result would be 50,000.
Thanks for that answer. I think it would have been better if they did it for every 10,000 myself. So 33 cases per 100,000 countywide for a population of 1.15 million ain’t too shabby.
@ConcordMike – In this case it’s better to use per 100,000 as the ratios are two digits for nearly all cities. If we used per 10,000 then many cities in that list would be at 2 per 10,000 or 3 per 10,000 and people would not know which of those are more or less impacted by COVID-19 than the others.
I suspect the table should have included an explanation that the right hand column is the infection rate. El Cerrito and Concord are the least impacted by COVID-19 and Orinda plus Pacheco are the most. Orinda needs an asterisk as nearly all of their infections are in a senior living facility. I’m not sure what’s happening in Pacheco.
Common core math?
No, not really, it’s because either the health department thinks people won’t understand or better yet will understand percentages.
Solid numbers seem really scary (in the right column), but do the math.
Take the number of positives in your city & divide it by the population.
I’ll do mine (Concord):
25 divided by 125,205: .0001996…….. Or .02% of the population.
19 sounds a lot more scary than .02% of the population (thats not 2%, thats .02%).
To put the above numbers into perspective, in 2018, 3651people were killed by automobile accidents in CA. or .0033 (.33%) of the population. So, as of right now/in normal times, you are 16x more likely to die this year in an automobile accident and you are to even get the virus, let alone die from it.. Granted the virus numbers will change. The big question is by how much.
But like I keep saying, if they don’t test every sick person, the numbers don’t mean squat.
Concord has gone way down hill. Idk about calling it a clean city. Grew up there and it’s completely different. When I talk to people it has a horrible reputation now. Idk what the stats say but crime, school, costs of living, traffic, roads are all worse. You aren’t getting what you pay for.
Hmmmm……well aren’t you just a nice bright peach. Bless your heart.
@Hmmm, Funny!
I don’t think that “Schmee” was talking about the cleanliness of the streets in Concord. They were clearly talking about the low infection rate per 100,000.
You could say the same about almost any city in the country unless you grew up in a city that has since gentrified. Where I grew up was orchards and now it is all houses. With people come all the negative items you mention.
@Hmm: I agree. I really like Concord, but it is expensive for what you get. If it weren’t for us wanting and needing to stay near aging parents, we’d be willing to move. Doesn’t seem like the opportunities for my kids are equal to what other areas get. Anyway, a conversation for a different thread…
I’m happy to see the numbers for Concord relatively low. I hope they stay that way!
Some years ago I went to see Ringo Starr at the Concord Pavillion. He opened with, “It’s great to be back here in Con-Cord”.
If Ringo likes visiting Concord, I guess it’s good enough for us!
Peace and Love.
Wear a mask when you are outside and we can stay safe.
A mask only helps a little bit protecting others. It does not protect you.
@concord ygnacio – True, but if we both wear masks we protect one another. A little bit is better than nothing at all.
Thank you for posting details – information, even when disheartening, is much appreciated.
I’d like to see the recovery numbers.
That’s good news in the middle of all of the doom and gloom.
I don’t think the government wants anyone to see the recovery rate because people will become complacent and ignore the edicts from the county and state.
It’s going to be very interesting to look at this a year from now and see the reality rather than media and government hype.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html here ya go
@concord ygnacio – A mast also protects the wearer which is exactly why you are supposed to remove it using the ear or head loops. As you breath in particles of dust and water droplets with coronavirus on them get stuck to the outside of the mask. No mask can stop 100% but even a loosely wrapped scarf traps particles.
Keep in mind that an infected person will shed billions of virus particles. The air in the immediate vicinity is contaminated, ground around them gets contaminated, all of their clothing is contaminated, and everything they touch and brush up against gets contaminated. If a single virus particle gets into your lungs then you are infected. The virus then replicates rapidly and within a day or two you will be shedding the virus yourself and likely will contaminate others.
That’s why I’m surprised to see that people continuing to use park and trail benches, drinking fountains, etc. Things that the public touches are guaranteed to be contaminated. As the ground for sidewalks and trails is infected you should disinfect your shoes before you get into the car or your house. If you don’t then you’ll have to assume the car and/or home are also contaminated. That’s why we had all of those videos of people in China spraying disinfectant on their sidewalks and streets.
China has experience with previous epidemics. Their lockdowns may seem extreme to us but they were able to stop the virus and have already restarted their economy. The USA is not even doing rigorous social distancing, which only slows the virus down slightly, much less a lockdown. That’s why COVID-19 has been impacting us for months and will continue to impact us for more months with a far higher death toll. The Chinese slammed the door shut when they had 300 cases. We have over 300,000 active cases in the USA and nearly 10,000 dead. Many people are still singing “la la la, it will go away by itself.” They are right, after the infection and death numbers hit their natural peaks as the county is not taking steps to stop the virus. Trump’s plan was called “15 Days to Slow the Spread” (announced on March 16th when we had 3000 infected and 60 dead) This was revised to a plan called “45 Days to Slow the Spread.” He’s not willing to pull the trigger on a plan to stop the virus. To use his words “Our country wasn’t built to be shut down.”
The hope now is that enough people will be alive when it’s over to have a somewhat functional economy.
What utter tripe…China, seriously? Only the most colossal moron would give a SHRED of credence to the numbers they cite…yeah sure, nation of 1.4 BILLION and they’re holding steady at 82K cases 3K deaths. Somewhere Jon Lovitz is saying, “yeah, that’s the ticket!” Of course no one has yet to explain that in a nation where you MUST have a smartphone so the CCP can track and “score” you, where they average 4 million new user accounts per MONTH, how it is they “lost” 21 MILLION user accounts in the 3 months that just happened to coincide with their Wu Flu. Even if we just right off the bat said the 21M is exaggerated, it’s only half, okay that’s 10M…and if we further were so gracious as to believe that 99% of those could be explained away in some benign fashion, and that only 1% were due to deaths from Wu Flu, that’s still 100K. And in my opinion that’s WAY underestimating the actual number of deaths, which I believe is likely in the 300K range.
And as for HOW China has “stopped” the spread? Uh, let’s see, dragging people from their homes and throwing them in “virus hotels” to die…or literally welding apartment doors shut so infected people can’t leave. Then when Trump did act and ban incoming travel from China on January 31st, what did whiner leftists such as Pelosi and De Blasio do? They called him racist, xenophobe, and well into late FEBRUARY were telling people to COME ON DOWN TO CHINATOWN. But I get it, Orange Man Bad, so by all means, do carry on.
Your trust in the numbers supplied by the Communist Party in China is not shared by our own intelligence agencies nor by an ever-expanding number of Chinese citizens. The expulsion of all Western journalists during the epidemic is probably more than coincidental.
I agree that we need stricter enforcement of social distancing. We also need accelerated testing. This should include both the new diagnostic test which takes minutes rather than days AND an antibody test so that we know who and how many people have recovered. We cannot know the rate of infection or the lethality of this virus by only testing people who have severe enough symptoms to bring them to the hospital or a medical clinic.
An utterly cogent set of observations WC. What will be interesting to see at some point assuming I’m not dead is what the death rates will be in states who’s governors waited and in some cases still haven’t ordered, a shelter-in-place. Red states. And more interesting is how many Trump voters will die, particularly in swing counties before November. There’s a real chance his campaign will be impacted, not only by his bungling of this and credibility issues over all, but because his potential voters may have expired. With the added irony being they were following his lead.
Pete V. seems to have some strong objections to your conclusions, though I stopped reading when Jon Lovitz was quoted. Even I have standards. 😉
Thank you to Contra Costa Health for being more transparent. That alone is comforting.
Possibly more transparent, but the data is fairly meaningless without robust testing being done.
True. Without another column for “number of total sick” (not just tested) the numbers mean nothing.
Medical experts are estimating this coming week will be the peak, where the numbers are going to rise the most. During this week, it is critical that people follow best practices of distancing, washing hands, wearing masks if they can find one or make one
It is Holy Week, so unfortunately many people might feel tempted to ignore distancing recommendations. If people don’t follow the rules, then the peak will be prolonged, and will be worse.
If people do follow the recommendations then the worse part of this crisis will pass, and starting next week the curve will decline. Warmer weather is around the corner, and the virus doesn’t do well in warmer temperatures. So hopefully we don’t have many more weeks to go, if all goes well.
Yes.
If anything, this data shows that the virus is everywhere in the county. No one is exempt from the risk.
Ohhh, but for the temptation of Holy Week. What?
@ Natalie
I like the medical experts say the peak is coming week but our governor, per sfgate, is saying the peak is in May. Is it because he is trying to justify his wanting to close the schools till June, or is it because the medical experts do not have the full picture, or something else?
Sometimes I do not know who to believe.
To say a mask doesn’t help protect you is asinine. .
Yes. Even if you believe you are safe, it is a courtesy to wear one.
Interesting. Stay safe everyone! Important to remember this is still a function of testing too.
That is very interesting information. So the county numbers do not represent one or two hotspots, but that it is widespread. Seems no matter where you live you are within walking distance to someone who has it especially when adding in that 50 percent or more of the people with it don’t have symptoms or just believe it is a minor cold or usual flu.
Hopefully, we will see a pharma or biotech company be able to develop a vaccine that will be validated with a robust, randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial for Covid-19 so that we will be much more prepared come the next “cycle” of this virus next year.
It isn’t going to happen. Look into SV40
The “gold standard” (snicker) IHME-UW model (“Murray model) just got updated this morning for the first time in 4 days, and of course it’s already waaay wrong, totally overestimating hospitalizations, ICU beds, and deaths. Total BS as it’s been from the beginning, yet it’s what we’re following and using as justification to abridge Constitutional rights and crater what was a thriving, robust economy.
Anecdotal, I know, but check out some of the HUNDREDS if not thousands of videos people are posting of practically deserted hospitals, even in “hotspots” like Queens. Medical workers to include nurses and doctors being furloughed, state of Oregon willing to give up 150 ventilators, hospitals that “the models” told us would be overrun by now that are instead ghost towns. Things are just not adding up.
NYC, Detroit, and NOLA are not the whole of America, but yet we’re acting as if that is the case. How interesting that some of the same bodies producing these wildly inaccurate Wu Flu models are the same ones that produce and/or advocate the hysterical “climate change” models…gosh, almost as if there’s some ulterior motive in instilling fear and panic into people.