Coronavirus update, July 30: Stanislaus deaths top 100. Modesto cases pass 3,000
Latest facts on COVID-19 testing in Modesto area
Stanislaus County announced five more deaths to COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing its total to 103.
There was no immediate victim information regarding gender, age or prior medical conditions.
The county has reported 59 deaths in July, well over half of the total since the first death in April.
As of Wednesday, 8,492 residents have tested positive for COVID-19, an increase of 204 from Tuesday, according to the county Health Services Agency.
Another 50,222 people have tested negative, and 7,209 are presumed recovered.
Wednesday’s positivity rate of 41.04% was up sharply from the 5.08% on Tuesday. The rate since data collection began in March is 14.5%.
The rolling 14-day average was 22.8% on Wednesday, compared with 22.75% on Tuesday. The rolling seven-day average was 25.8%, versus 22.99% on Monday.
There are 192 confirmed patients in the five county hospitals, down from 195 on Monday. Nearly 95 percent of the adult intensive care unit beds were being used Wednesday.
Of those who tested positive, 55% are female, 45% male. Fourteen percent are 20 or younger, 20% are 21 to 30, 19% are 31 to 40, 17% are 41 to 50, 14% are 51 to 60, 7% are 61 to 70, 4% are 71 to 80, 4% are 81 to 90, and 2% are older than 90.
Though they make up 47 percent of the population, Latinos represented 60 percent of the positive cases.
Modesto has 3,018 positive cases, 1,095 are in Ceres, 1,071 are in Turlock, 403 are in Patterson, 370 are in Riverbank, 172 are in Oakdale, 152 are in Waterford, 134 are in Newman, and 88 are in Hughson. Of the cases in unincorporated areas, 546 are in supervisorial District 5, 512 are in District 3, which includes Salida, 348 are in District 2, 161 are in District 1, and 44 are in District 4.
- San Joaquin County has 146 COVID-19-related deaths, up 13 from the day before, among 11,209 cases.
- Merced County has 35 deaths among 3,906 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 132 cases and two deaths.
- Mariposa County has 51 positive cases and two deaths.
As of Thursday morning, there were 484,913 confirmed cases in California and 8,908 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 4,427,493 U.S. cases and 150,716 deaths.
Here is the state tracker.
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This story was originally published July 30, 2020 at 4:28 AM.
