Contra Costa is now reporting 462 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 20 more than yesterday.
The county has also confirmed there have been seven coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa.
Below is a city-by-city breakdown of coronavirus cases for Contra Costa County:
It’s interesting that the number of people in hospitals with the corona virus in our county was 31 last Thursday. Today, it’s reported as 30. Given the much higher numbers we’re seeing in New York and LA County, it looks like we’ve been lucky so far.
As much as I hate to admit it, Newsom’s shutdowns and social distancing orders saved immunerable lives.
We still need an economic restart strategy to take effect within the next month or so. I would either roll back to the SIP of seniors and high risk groups, or a Selective Service-type lifting of restrictions i.e. All the citizens with March birthdays are released.
Hospital beds are being freed up if the person doesn’t need ventilation. So they are suffering at home. So far they dont have any data on how many people die at home from this – but they are still collecting lots of data.
Bob, respect to you for giving newsome some credit. I’m sure you don’t agree with him much, but it’s good that you can still be appreciative when he does something positive.
It’s not luck. The Bay Area started social distancing and sheltering in place on March 16. Newsom ordered the rest of the state to shelter in place on March 19. New York’s stay at home order didn’t take effect until March 22. Those days made all the difference.
I agree with you REASON. Our governor has made hard and unpopular moves and has saved lives like we will not know until this is over. So thankful, but not out of the woods by a longshot. Hang in there all. As Betty Davis said: “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
NO
So we put everyone out of work, shut down everyone’s livelihood, financially ruined countless lives all for the equivalent of an Orinda AIRBNB houseparty.
Look at NY and ask yourself that question again.
The numbers are low because of the shutdown, not despite of it.
Typical low IQ post by someone with zero common sense. This early shutdown is what saved California from having a massive outbreak all at once.
Could it be possible that the increase in the number of Coronavirus cases in Contra Costa County has increased because we are testing more people?
YES! Absolutely! Could it also be that are death numbers are going up because if you die in a car accident, and have tested positive for SARS2, you are counted in the SARS2 death count? YES again!
Curve flattening, number of deaths predicted for California by Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
last week prediction was 5,068,
revised downward earlier this week to 1,783,
revised downward again today to 1,611.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/california
Just came across this . . . NY evidently has half population of CA yet has fatality rate 14 times greater.
Stay at home order in NY was made 3 days after similar order in CA.
Was covid-19 here in CA earlier than first thought ? ?
Read the article,
https://www.ksbw.com/article/new-study-investigates-californias-possible-herd-immunity-to-covid-19/32073873
yes that Victor Davis Hanson fellow makes perfect sense. I’m just reading in the article you linked:
“Hanson said he thinks it is possible COVID-19 has been spreading among Californians since the fall when doctors reported an early flu season in the state. During that same time, California was welcoming as many as 8,000 Chinese nationals daily into our airports. Some of those visitors even arriving on direct flights from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China.”
I’m sure during that time there was no travel between China and New York, or for that matter between California and New York.
As article states CA is number one destination for Chinese tourism, while some went further east majority were in CA. Also worth noting since British Columbia / Vancouver began taxing foreign buyers a 15% property transfer tax, after home prices shot up 32% in a year buyers shifted south. When Seattle market overheated foreign buyers shifted south again.
Believe most travelers from China spent majority of their time within CA. All it takes is a single virus infected individual, given incubation period 2 – 24 days, to spread it.
sure you would only need one to spread it, but in order to achieve herd immunity as you seem to suggest you would need to spread it to a sizable part of the population and how do you think that would not have spread to NY but just within CA?
actually according to this:
Where do Chinese tourists go in the US?
The average Chinese visitor spends 18 days and $7,000 per trip to the U.S., according to the U.S. Travel Association. The top American destinations are New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, D.C., and Boston, Barnes says.May 31, 2019
Maybe there are seasonal differences, I can’t tell. But given the author of your article I highly suspect this is to lay base that all is fine in CA because of heard immunity and there is no need to SIP.
Well lets see, if one infected person interacts with 5 people and 3 of them become infected and each of those 3 interact with 5 more people and as that continues. And lets say every other day five of the infected travel to other cities in CA.
An perhaps some of those infected use rush hour mass transit expanding the infection rate. Now rate of infection is not exponential but spread would be impressive when incubation period is factored in. Keep in mind also how mobile our society is.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
New cases just today,
New York 8,787
New Jersey 3,021
It is interesting to me that the virus may have started earlier than we thought. I can’t remember exactly when, but I noticed my sense of smell was altered in recent months. I wonder if the virus caused it. I’ve heard it might be one of the symptoms.
CA is ROCKING the numbers.
The idiot Conservative states are seeing their number of cases increase and are now above CA with a fraction of the population…
I guess God truly does only help those that help themselves.
Is that so? How about we look at the coronavirus death rate of a small sample of blue and red states:
Blue
NY 4.16%
NJ 3.17%
MI 4.71%
CA 2.54%
MA 2.34%
IL 3.06%
Red
TX 1.94%
TN 1.81%
VA 1.81%
NC 1.81%
AL 2.84%
UT 0.7%
WV 0.87%
The number of cases, death rate, etc., all rely on accurate state reporting, which at this time is incomplete at best.
It appears to me the death rate is based on the general health and age of the population and the number of cases is directly tied to population density, which may be the ONLY reason CA appears to be doing fairly well FOR NOW.
I hope you folks remember that most epidemiologists predict a new wave of infections WHENEVER we finally ‘get back to business’. This ‘pause’ has flattened the rate of infection, allowing doctors and researchers to investigate new treatments, test kits and vaccines. All of that should reduce deaths.
I hope/pray that the Governor and President will announce ASAP an end to SIP, beginning May 1st. This would allow employers time they need to get ready to receive workers, supplies, etc…and become economically productive again. If we don’t do this soon, we’re going to find that there are items even more ‘essential’ than toilet paper which will no longer be available. Our ‘supply chain’ is actually a very complicated web, easily damaged and difficult to repair.
The numbers for the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak at the Carlton Senior Living facility in “Pleasant Hill” need to be added.
When this improves, which it IS doing. Can we organize a petition, with the threat of a lawsuit, to ask the MDUSD to reconsider opening the schools in early May? They pulled the plug WAY to soon without evaluating the situation week by week. Poor leadership following poor leadership of the CCHD.
I would sign that petition along with one to remove the superintendent for failing in his job.
You’re funny…. Even the judges are kick’n it….
As much as I’d like to see HS seniors experience their proms and grad nights, in the larger scheme of things, including the inevitable increase in Wuhan Flu cases and the additional deaths of our fellow Americans that will no doubt result, I think keeping the schools closed is a sacrifice worth making. I feel for the kids, but they’ll live. Perhaps the dances and grad nights can be postponed until July?
Many smart people with access to far more data than the general public are looking at the numbers and are puzzled at the data from California. Our numbers are far lower than other areas and lower than expected even when the timing of the shutdown is taken into consideration. Let’s hope that remains the case.
One possibility was that California experienced an unusual wave of flu cases in November. I suspect health authorities are now trying to locate many of those victims to run COVID-19 antibody tests on to see if perhaps many of them have been exposed to COVID-19 at a much higher rate than the general population.
My neighborhood is not social distancing. My neighbors are chit-chatting with each other in the street & children are playing with other children.
Out on the main street, groups of families (5 people) are walking which is fine, but they come upon another group of people & they all walk thru each other on the sidewalk.
Fast food clerks are not changing their gloves after each customer. So they grab a customers credit card, run it, hand it back, then do the same with the next customer with the same gloves. So their gloves are touching all the customers.
So many people wearing face masks keep adjusting the masks with their hands multiple times… almost every few seconds they adjust it.
@ Well???!!, NO.
1152526 is the population in Contra Costa County.
People tested for COVID-19 are 6023 (according to data above).
Without being a pro-mathematician is obvious the fact how the number
of sick or carry virus people is a far way of reality when you play with those
two numbers.
We need more tests. Free tests.