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RECENT DEATH DATES: 
Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Thursday Dec.17, 2020:
- Total cases (since March) – 33,072
- Total active confirmed cases – 5,831
- Recovered cases – 26,951
- Total tested – 726,907
- Deaths – 290
- Nobody under 30 years old has died – 141 deaths in nursing homes
- There are currently 18 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 196
- Occupied ICU beds – 141 (50 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 25 (13%)
- Available ventilators – 200
PREVIOUS DAY NUMBERS SHOWN BELOW:
Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Wednesday Dec.16, 2020:
- Total cases (since March) – 32,526
- Total active confirmed cases – 5,830
- Recovered cases – 26,406
- Total tested – 719,886
- Deaths – 290
- Nobody under 30 years old has died – 141 deaths in nursing homes
- There are currently 18 active COVID-19 outbreaks in Contra Costa nursing homes
Contra Costa County COVID-19 Hospital Data:
- COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized – 188
- Occupied ICU beds – 141 (48 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 25 (13%)
- Available ventilators – 206
You would think with all of these statistics that reporting deaths from the Chinese virus would be a lot faster. All of the new deaths reported are from over a week ago. They seem to know all new facts daily but deaths.
I know you are just the messenger but we only went up 1 active case since yesterday?
Good catch JimmyJam – I believe that’s a notch in the data caused by Thanksgiving day where there was relatively little testing and thus very few new cases. The county ignores the last 7 days of data as test results are coming in. Thus the number of recovered and active cases is based the numbers from 8 to 21 days ago. 21 days ago was Thanksgiving day.
Here’s a graph that shows the 14-day rolling sum of the new cases per day. It’s similar to how active cases is computed. You can see the notch in the data from Thanksgiving day. https://imgur.com/a/pTQR9D9
Can anyone else make sense of these published numbers from CC Health?
Date COVID in Hospital ICU Occup/COVID ICU ICU Avail. Total ICU
12/14 177 133/44 50 183
12/15 185 130/44 45 175
12/17 196 141/50 25 166
Total ICU should equate to the sum of the occupied and those available.
So in 4 days we have 8 more total people in ICU but we have 25 fewer ICU beds available. We now somehow have 17 fewer ICU beds in the County than 3 days ago? The math doesn’t work unless you want the metric to drop below 15% available. Did staff somehow get redirected?
Just saying….
@joeblow – Focusing on just the line for 12/17
196 COVID-19 patients in the hospital
141 patients in ICU (both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19)
50 COVID-19 patients in ICU
25 available ICU beds
166 beds in the ICU (this is 141 Patients in ICU plus 25 available ICU beds)
I’m guessing that CC county hospitals are loaning ICU staff to hospitals in other counties that are in desperate circumstances. CC county hospitals are still running at 82% to 83% capacity (18% to 17% available capacity). We have 25 ICU beds fully staffed and waiting for patients. The staff keeps busy working with the existing patients.
The conspiracy theory is that ICU administrators are deliberately defunding the ICU to drive the COVID-19 numbers in ways that are useful to the administrators.
CDC’s survival rate by age
0-19 99.997%
20-49 99.98%
50-69 99.5%
70 + 94.6%
It’s a free country. You’re free to wear a mask, stay at home and order Instacart, but you’re NOT free to impose you’re insanity on me.
Insanity is what we’re seeing in the hospital, growing at a non-sustainable rate. Every day, we’re getting an influx of Covid, in addition to everything else that we usually see. The system is struggling to keep up with demand (ie opening up makeshift patient rooms) and staff is doing everything they can (ie working overtime),, but are also burning out/getting sick. I’m glad you’re seeing the stats regarding what good healthcare can do for these patients, but I can guarantee that you have no idea what it takes to keep these numbers down. These patients are sick- and no, they’re not just 70+, and now you’ll have nurses taking care of more patients, with an increased acuity. Since you enjoy research, look up patient mortality in relation to increased RN patient ratios, and that’s not in relation to a pandemic. You deciding to not wear a mask and socially distance has a huge impact on your loved ones, neighbors, and the hospital system. It only seems to matter once it affects you or your family.
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