CASES BY LOCATION: 
DEATHS BY LOCATION: 
RECENT DEATH DATES: 
Contra Costa County COVID-19 data as of Friday Dec.18, 2020:
- Total cases (since March) – 33,713
- Total active confirmed cases – 6,057
- Recovered cases – 27,359
- Total tested – 734,480
- Deaths – 297
- 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 – 197
- Occupied ICU beds – 140 (58 COVID patients)
- Available ICU beds – 21 (10.2%)
- Available ventilators – 179
PREVIOUS DAY NUMBERS SHOWN BELOW:
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
How is there 1 less occupied ICU bed, but 4 less available ICU beds?
Because it’s all a big LIE.
Most likely a staffing issue. No ICU nurse, no ICU bed.
The occupied number is COVID patients. There are non COVID patients in and out of ICU beds as well.
Because it makes the ratios look better for the County shutdown! I feel if the Hospitals were really concerned they would have staff for all of the beds.
Where do you plan on finding these staff? ICU nurses do not grow on trees.
In the past, traveling nurses could help fill short term staffing issues, but there are probably very few to be found because there is an ICU staffing shortage all over the country.
@Stewart~If California is in such dire straits, then we should bring in the USNS Mercy to Los Angeles port again–with fully staffed personnel…
https://news.usni.org/2020/05/15/usns-mercy-leaves-los-angeles-after-treating-77-patients-some-personnel-will-remain-in-l-a
@Sancho Panza – The Mercy has 80 ICU beds. While it would be a bit of a help, 80 beds across all of California is not going to do much to stem the tide.
@Sancho
1000 bed hospital with over 900 staff and only 77 patients! If they aren’t using the resources that we had before, why spend ALL that money again?!?
@Nana thats even more creative math. The CC website clearly says 21 empty ICU beds and 140 full – 50 Covid and 90 non- Covid patients.
But then the other chart says 10.2% empty…..data never lies except today.
@Nana
You’ve validated my point…the resources are there if we get to that critical point like in March when there were many unknowns about COVID-19 and the outrageous models that predicted many more deaths..
Dr. Warne (Contra Costa Health Officer)spoke about ICU capacity yesterday and said the state is setting the statistic for our county—that it is ‘very flexible’ as the denominator changes from day to day and capacity shift to shift…that there are two criteria: licensed bed capacity and current staff capacity. I see all this data convoluted and we shouldn’t even bother with county stats anymore, we’re ‘one big’ island now and the Health orders will be mandated as such…
25 is not 13% of 166
Neither is
21 10.2% of 161
Yeah, that is weird.
COVID math……not taught in schools but comes from Sacramento.
Try 140+58=198 and 141+50=191 for occupied ICU beds.
If only Trump had …blah blah blah..and donkeys fly.All you did was call him a racist when he tried from the start.
Riding the bandwagon of what he saying huh. Trump didn’t try from the start. The first few weeks when he found out. He was on the golf course. Then what, he said it was nothing. Blow away right. He had to try to put a rush because he knew it was gonna hurt his campaign. If it wasn’t election year. He wouldn’t care. Where is he now? Complaining like always about something. Not doing anything about the virus now. Ya keep repeating what he says and don’t look at what he’s actually doing.
@me …. Trump offered federal support – but your buddy Newscum turned it down.
Look it up, cupcake. Put the blame on your buddy greaseball.
@Me
Trump was called a racist by the entire Dem party for shutting down flights from China, that’s God’s honest truth and you are free to look into it. Not a president protecting his people against an intentionally released Chinese bioweapon (probably), but a racist.
Stopping the virus cold then would have required draconian measures, deeply Unamerican ones, like we saw in countries like Taiwan and South Korea. Forced contact tracing apps on your phone, things like that.
Again, if it’s getting that bad bring in the military. Plenty of doctors and nurses.
Only the federal government can mobilize the military.
The current president seems a bit… disinterested at the moment.
National Guard isn’t a solution. Those people are normal citizens first. If there are ICU personnel in the National Guard, they’re already in hospitals doing their normal job.
California has a total (non-surge) ICU bed capacity (per KFF.org) of 8131, and Defense Secretary Esper in a March interview claimed the military could provide a max of a few thousand beds (nationwide). Given we’re already out of beds and not peaking until January, there’s some likelihood of people not being able to get adequate emergency medical care. Now is definitely not the time to get Covid, or anything else that could land you in ICU.
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821606478/defense-secretary-esper-says-military-has-limited-capacity-to-provide-hospital-b
@Anon
We did that before and NO ONE used them! What were they brought in for? And who paid for them? 1000 bed hospital ship with over 900 staff for 77 patients! Frustrating…
@ Stewart
You sound like that idiot De Blasio when he said the Nation Guard isn’t the military. The United States National Guard is part of the reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force.
There are 190 MOSs (Military Occupational Specialities) in the US Army and every single one of them is represented in the US Army National Guard from Cooks to Infantry to Medical Doctors. From the home of the 2nd Battalion 75th Rangers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord to Fort Detrick – home to the Military Medical Professionals at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Since 1933 EVERY National Guard member attends BCT (Basic Combat Training) at a US Army Fort or BMT (Basic Military Training) at Lackland Air Force Base right alongside the other professional soldiers and airman.
Over 600 National Guardsmen have given their last full measure of devotion during the the Iraq/Afghanistan war.
In fact, the National Guard was established (December 13, 1630) 140 years prior to the oldest component of the US Military, the US Army (June 14, 1775).
Not everyone Guardsman’s MOS matches their day job either.
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!!
Is this what it takes with these people, a blue collar worker to bring some common sense???
If you have an alleged shortage of ICU beds……YOU CONVERT OTHER ROOMS!!!!
We all know that routine surgeries are not taking place.
This is ridiculous.
Doesn’t matter how many rooms you call ICU if you don’t have the equipment or the years it takes to train staff.
Remember our great dictator telling us that he has field hospitals ready to go when needed? I would think they would have the medical staff to run them. Or maybe that will turn out to be an oversight…
RECALL NEWSOM!
Can’t say it enough. Let’s put the petty tyrant out of a job.
Fill out the form petition.
https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
Glad to see Madam Pelosi take the Trump vacine against the China virus.
Hospitals need to hire more staff but they don’t/didn’t because they are too cheap. It’s been planned for months that we would have a surge in cases yet no one is/was prepared. And hospital staff risk their own health everyday. COVID or no COVID.
There are not enough nurses because many had to choose to stay home with their kids because teachers refuse to teach. It is not a hoax, but the numbers sure are.
I don’t agree with everything that Newsom does however he is doing the best he can in the situation. Blaming Newsom is not where they should be going. Some of you need to look in the mirror, how many people have to die before you see the truth. It is very sad that we have to be divided when this is not a political issue this is a human issue. Wear a mask it’s so simple. It doesn’t mean you’re weak, it doesn’t mean you’re a Democrat, It means you are a human that actually have some compassion not just for yourself, your family, your neighbors but the community as a whole. I sat back and kept quiet but no more. Please don’t bring this into politics anymore, so many people are suffering and it just takes one person to stand up in your circle and wear a mask it means you are a human that actually has some compassion not just for yourself, your family, your neighbors but the community as a whole. I sat back and kept quiet but no more. Please don’t bring this into politics anymore, so many people are suffering and it just takes one person to stand up in your circle and wear a mask
ikr! Just because Grusome Newsome doesn’t follow his own tyranicaly edicts (French laundry) and pushes them like a dictator on us doesn’t make him wrong! Or an idiot! Or a hypocrite! It’s US who are at fault! The half a percent of us not wearing masks are at fault, not our corrupt democrat-run political system!
Opening eyes ,you’re blind as a bat.
Technically it’s not a flu; coronaviruses are considered to cause colds.
I’m confused — mask issues aside.
During the first “flatten the curve” the result was going to be big increase in “contact tracing”.
What happened?
No contacts? Or no tracing?
Stay at home forever.
Open the borders.
Take the vaccine.
Eat the bugs.
Trust in the plan.
All is well.
https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/
That news article is from 2018 and is about the regular flu that suddenly doesnt exist.
Posting that now and hoping you had a covid nugget makes you a dreaming fear mongerer..Your low info’ers will jump on that article as if it’s current that you just tried to push on them.I’m glad that you lefties can’t even be truthful among your cronies..
I personally found the article to be interesting. It’s a reminder that history repeats itself. The 2017-2018 flu season was worse than average with an estimated 45 million symptomatic cases in the USA, 21 million of those called a doctor/nurse about it, 810 thousand in the hospital, and 61 thousand deaths. Those numbers are from https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Compare that with COVID-19 which so far has 17 million cases (both symptomatic and asymptomatic and so it’s not quite the same as the number for the flu) and 312 to 316 thousand deaths. Unfortunately, health authorities do not seem to be reporting hospital and ICU admissions meaning we can’t compare that aspect of the flu to COVID-19.
The flu in 2017-2018 had a 0.14% death rate while COVID-19 is running at 1.8%. Unfortunately, heath authorities are not reporting the number of symptomatic and asymptomatic cases and so we can’t directly compare the death rate other than to know it’s at least ten times worse than a bad flu season.