Contra Costa is now reporting 1,066 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 18 more than yesterday.
There have been 32 coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa.
Below is a city-by-city breakdown of coronavirus cases for Contra Costa County:
RELATED STORY FROM MONDAY: DAILY UPDATE: 1,048 Confirmed Cases Of Coronavirus In Contra Costa County – Same Amount As Yesterday
RELATED INFO FROM MONDAY (cases by city):
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Since Governor Newsom continues to allow the Bay Area to be locked down by unelected bureaucrats, here are their phone numbers.
I suggest a call to tell them to line their policies up with the statewide policies, and distance themselves from Santa Clara Co. and Dr. Sara Cody.
https://cchealth.org/healthservices/administration.php
And, since they have hidden their emails, you can register the same complaints here:
https://cchealth.org/contact/
Thanks, I can use this to let them know what a great job they are doing. I am so blessed to be living in California where lives count more than money
Los Angeles county is NOW extending until JULY. And we all know how that goes- Anything LA can Do Gavin will extend Longer. Plus China has confirmed the virus came from an old bat. Pelosi immediately retorted ” I have not been to China in the last 12 months” tee hee
Great Bud, that is how democracy works.
Hope you enjoy sitting at home in your mask until November.
Thanks, I will definitely make use of this and let them know my thoughts.
So according to my trusty abacus, 5% of people tested for coronavirus actually have/had it. So a lot of people were either well or paranoid, or else had something else. Only 1% of infected people remain in the hospital. 3% of people who got tested and were infected died. And surveillance testing indicates a high level of asymptomatic infections.
Therefore, although a nasty disease, not likely to end the human race. If you smoke, have uncontrolled/mismanaged diabetes or high blood pressure, are really old or have a compromised immune system, by all means stay home. If you want to cower-in-place, go ahead.
As for the rest of us? LET MY PEOPLE GO! Back to work, back to Church, back to restaurants, stores, etc…
@Chuckie – can’t wait to see you back at church and riding mass transit. Good times ahead for you!
And there goes Dan again spouting off cause he does not like the truth.
LET MY PEOPLE GO!
If my church opened this weekend, I would be there. I do not fear this mongering that our leadership and media are trying to portray. You may not understand this, wait, I know you don’t.
What truth do I object to? I agree, the numbers are the numbers. I agree that the quantity of overall cases is probably under reported and the overall death rate is probably lower than reported. My position is, and will continue to be that this is a highly contagious disease that has either impacted the health or finances of everybody world wide. There is no way about that. We, as a society, need to find a way to operate in a way that values and respects the economy and public health. The two are not and cannot be mutually exclusive. The government can allow business to open but if people don’t feel safe, they wont go and bullying them will not solve the issue.
@ Dan
“The government can allow business to open but if people don’t feel safe, they wont go and bullying them will not solve the issue.”
But the government does not allow the businesses to open, (HINT:
this is what has impacted the finances) regardless of whether or not people will go. How about opening the businesses and letting you and me decide if we want to go.
Better yet, let me decide if I want to go. Your posts indicate that you’ve already made the choice to stay inside.
@ Professor – I’m not sure what the debate is. The local health officials have said that the stay will be lifted on June 1. Hope to see you at your favorite restaurant.
This bat virus thingy is hard on my liver.
When the shelves of the liquor section are empty, people will rebel. Used to be what I have in the house would last a month or two. That same quantity only lasts a couple of weeks. Good thing the Liver (eventually) regenerates!
Contra Costa County population (2019): 1.154 Million
Contra Costa County deaths from Wuhan Virus: 32
o·ver·re·act
/ˌōvə(r)rēˈakt/
verb: respond more emotionally or forcibly than is justified
You need to know how many people have been tested, there is NO overreacting when you don’t know all the numbers.
Guess you’re not related to, or friends with one of the 32 victims.
@ Bud E – 32 deaths in 3 months plus out of a population of 1.5 million is all you need to know…stay inside if you like but don’t push your agenda on others.
@ Old-school guy – as sad as any death is, it is still not a reason to shut down the economy and keep everybody inside. Everybody experiences death nobody is immune.
@Old-school guy:
I was friends with an individual who died last month in a vehicle accident. Terribly sad. Less sad than if he had died of Covid-19? No.
@Liberty – are you a constitutional scholar? What law school did you graduate from and where do you practice?
Our country is based on three equal and independent branches of government. The judiciary branch is charged with determining whether laws are constitutional. Leave it to the court system. The last thing we need is another federal investigation.
On a side note, the public health officials work for the county which is overseen by the Board of Supervisors. This may come as a surprise to a constitutional scholar like yourself but the vast majority of laws are not written by elected officials – they are written by lobbyists or staffers. If a County Supervisor doesn’t agree with the order, the Supervisor should step in. If you have an issue with the county department of health, you have an issue with an elected official.
You may not like this, but please, stop making it out to be a crime.
Any day now we will see a press conference exclaiming, “Due to facts and science we are now opening up this and that; moving to phase 3 etc.”
Sort of a face-saving rhetorical presentation; nothing to do with science.
The real lesson here is never underestimate the clout of a local Billionaire.
I have a home and lawn and garden to take care of. We have fantastic neighbors who shop for us but I am going stir crazy. I can’t imagine what it is like to live in an apartment. It is time for everyone to go back to work. If you are in the risk group stay home. Everyone else wear masks and go back to work. Use hand sanitizers and take something to scratch your face if you itch. The whole thing staying at home at this point is crazy. Many people are working everyday or shopping and it doesn’t appear they are getting sick.
The health department is doing us no favors by withholding where these few new cases are coming from. Actually holding back this info is criminal.
So is also being required to wear shirt and shoes into a retail establishment also violating your constitutional freedom? Shut-up and put a mask on.
@ concord mom – you are totally on point. There are much bigger issues at hand. Thank you.
Not unconstitutional.
Just last Wednesday, the Supreme Court declined to lift a lockdown order in Pennsylvania,
Thanks Mom.
I wish we had more information about the status of preparations being made to loosen COVID-19 restrictions. I heard Kaiser has opened their new testing center so that should mean testing capacity is significantly improved. What does the county think we need for available testing capacity in order to open the county? What is the status of hiring for contact tracing? When this is finished can businesses open – and what preparations do businesses need to do to adequately prepare for resuming business?
thank you Ricadoh.
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I personally would not be surprised if it’s 11 deaths from Chateau III.[1] The average age of the residents puts them squarely in the COVID-19 danger zone.
The main data official points that supports 11 deaths this are the county’s Deaths by Age Group
and Cases by Age Group charts which show:
Age 20 or under: 0 deaths out of 69 cases.
Age 21-30: 0 deaths out of 165 cases.
Age 31-40: 0 deaths out of 162 cases.
Age 41-50: 0 deaths out of 177 cases.
Age 51-60: 3 deaths out of 200 cases which is a 1.5% death rate.
Age 61-70: 6 deaths out of 138 cases which is a 4.3% death rate.
Age 71-80: 4 deaths out of 78 cases which is a 5.1% death rate.
Age 81-90: 9 deaths out of 49 cases which is a 18.4% death rate.
Age over 90: 10 deaths out of 27 cases which is a 37.0% death rate.[2]
As there are 36 reported COVID-19 cases among Chateau III residents residents[3] we can project the deaths at 7 if all the residents were age 81-90 to 13 deaths if all of them were over age 90.
Even if the residents were all in 81-90 bracket I would expect a higher than expected death rate compared with the general population in that age group because they were infirm enough that they live at Chateau III.
That’s why I’m saying I’m not surprised by a rumor of 11 deaths as it fits in the ballpark of expected deaths.
The county has never released numbers for Chateau III other than a couple of twitter posts on April 7 and 8 when the outbreak was first spotted.
At some point in mid-April a reporter figured out there had been at least five deaths from Chateau III. County and state level officials are refusing to provide numbers about the assisted living facilities since late April.
[1] Chateau III is now called Carlton Senior Living of Pleasant Hill but the new name is far too long to use multiple times.
[2] The sum of the deaths is 32 which matches the current total from the county. However, the sum of the cases is 1065 which is one less than total of 1066 reported by the county. I sure wish the county would report recoveries so that people could see the true recovered vs. death rates as the active cases are still pending. The death rates I computed assume that all of the active/pending cases will survive.
[3] The was last reported on April 27, 2020. The number of cases may now be higher.
Why doesn’t it surprise me that dan and Ozzie believe Concord Mom is “on point”?
At this point curb-side pickup and any business that can operate with all customers/clients outdoors should be opened. State parks’ outdoor areas should be open, particularly if numbers can be easily controlled (as in the case of Mt. Diablo). I’m in favor of taking this seriously, and I appreciate the fact that we’ve been successful so far, but there’s some tunnel-vision going on here.
Covid-19 is not the only bad thing in life:
kids not getting their vaccines and well-child visits is bad;
round-the-clock contact with domestic abusers is bad;
mental health effects of isolation are bad;
seniors spending their last days isolated from the touch of any loved one – that’s bad;
people unable to be at a loved one’s funeral is bad;
delaying “non-urgent” but important medical care is bad;
the effects (of all kinds) of extending a period of unemployment that hasn’t been seen since the Great Depression – that’s really bad, and gets worse the longer this goes on;
losing the trust of the public by indefinite extension of an emergency measure is bad, and weakens the efficacy of your public health tools as time goes on;
and finally, drastic constriction of liberty is bad, period, and worse the longer it goes on.
We should *at least* be opening up low-risk activity like outdoor dining for places with the space to spread out, closing downtown streets so restaurants can use that space; letting *all* kids go to summer camp if they are kept with the same small-sized cohort of other kids.
Lockdown may have been the right call when, for all we knew, we might have been seeding an NYC-type surge. But we know more now. The virus is still here, still bad. But the stay-at-home is just not sustainable, and the longer they push an unsustainable policy the less people are going to comply with the intermediate measures that we will need in order to mitigate (not eliminate) risk going forward.
Agreed. The conversation at this point needs to shift towards discussing the low risk activities that may resume, and notifying communities about the mitigation measures put in place or planned.
The protesters though are really not helping move the discussion forward and really seem counter-productive towards reaching their own stated goals.
You are misinformed @ Liberty. COVID-19 has surpassed death rate for flu in four months. Flu has an RO of approx 1.4 persons infected while COVID-19 has RO of 2.3 persons infected. Covid is more deadly and spreads easier. But go ahead and act a fool, don’t wear a mask, promote falsehoods and put others at risk. That’ll make you a big man.
Love how the usual suspects came out and said the usual things. They must be hornswoggled to find that MOST people do not agree with them, verdict is in> ITS TOO SOON TO OPEN UP! But for people like Chukee and Liberty 1st, NO ONE wants to have sacrificed what we have and turn around and lose it all, just so you can go have a hamburger and a beer. We have tons of indication of how ridiculous people act, even when they have been IMPLORED upon to wear masks and distance. Somehow their liberty is more important than everyone elses lives. 1. You dont have good numbers because al lot of POSITIVES were never correctly tested and they got VERY sick. 2. You will never have all the death count because we were two months into this before we knew anything about the virus or tested, and no tests were done on people already dead as far as I know. 3. Until everyone can get a test readily, and a result readily, no one should be “opening up”. And we need to know we have effective and immediate tracing too. 4. Gavin has already entered the phase up that allows the county to work with how to make SOME few places safe for opening up fairly soo. 5. If YOU cant stand your kids enough to stay home for a couple of months with them, how the heck are the rest of us supposed to stand them? 6. Staying home has been a very good thing for a lot of reasons. People think working 60 to 80 hour work weeks and ignoring the kids is a LIFE?? –Settle down and enjoy a little more time before we hit the skids on the next round of people not cooperating and fighting over something SMALL like wearing a mask to save lives, and cleaning your yard or watching tv. What a bunch of spoiled complainers…. #covid19survivornow
Speaking of masks:
When do we receive the $1 Billion worth of masks our Governor ordered from China?
Why didn’t he buy American?
Will they be distributed pro rata?
“… just so you can go have a hamburger and a beer.”
No chance it’s so that the people making the hamburger and pouring the beer can go back to making a living and providing for themselves, huh?
WC Resident, … Thank You for info !
At upper end of the 4.3% death rate age group and still working with over 300 people. Two cases, limited to contract security personnel who have almost no contact with rest of us. We’ve been working all thru this with masks, distancing, teleconferencing and working from home for those who don’t have to be there to work on breakdowns and keep place running.
Worth a visit,
SF Chronicle website has story,
‘California doesn’t disclose coronavirus deaths at nursing homes’
Mercury news website April 23, Editorial: Newsom must end cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths
An aunt of mine lived alone with only a women coming in to drive her once a week to the hairdresser and to grocery shop. At the age of 104, some of her nieces decided she needed to be in a group setting with medical attention provided. She lasted a little more than a year there. In that period of time, she was heavily medicated with anti-psychotics after trying to escape — anti-psychotics at 104!
She had refused to take medication most of her life having worked in the health care field. Her instincts were correct. Shortly after they insisted she take an antibiotic for an infection she could have only acquired from the health care workers there — likely the first antibiotics she had ever taken in her life — she died.
@ claycord.com go to the states website where it tracks senior facilities positive cases and death. Carlton has 36 tested residents ( not including staff) and over 11 deaths.
as of 05/12:
1,066 confirmed cases (CCC) with 32 deaths = a 3.00% death rate.
Those are confirmed cases. It’s highly likely there have been many more cases of either people with mild symptoms or no symptoms. That would change the fatality rate you have calculated. That fatality rate you calculated only reflects cases that are known due to testing.
It would be really interesting to have some widespread testing for antibodies to find out how many people have had Covid but never diagnosed with it.
Do realize seasonal flu incubation period is much shorter than CV19.
Question, for those who might be familiar with stats.
Average number of deaths from seasonal flu per year in percent so as to compare.
Hope everyone at Claycord is healthy.
An again, Thanks for all you do for our community !
@getagrip:
And you’re 100% certain you know the exact number of Coronavirus infections? It spreads easier, so it stands to reason that the rate of infection is possibly orders of magnitude greater than the data show. How many people have the flu and don’t seek medical attention? The mortality rates of both afflictions are inflated.
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