Coronavirus update, Aug. 12: Stanislaus deaths at 177. Supervisor seeks live schools
Latest facts on COVID-19 testing in Modesto area
Stanislaus County announced eight more COVID-19 deaths Tuesday, for a total of 177. Details on the genders and age ranges of these residents were not available.
A total of 10,855 people have tested positive, up 591 from Monday, the county Health Services Agency reported. Another 59,344 have tested negative, and 9,953 are presumed recovered.
Tuesday’s positivity rate of 56.4% was a five-fold jump from Monday’s figure. The rolling 14-day average stood at 21.4% and the seven-day average at 17.6%. Those were up 5 percentage points from the similar data the day before.
The positivity rate since data collection started stood at 15.5% on Tuesday.
Stanislaus has 32.14 deaths per 100,000 residents, third worst among the eight counties of the San Joaquin Valley. Its 197.13 cases per 100,000 people ranks fifth.
The county’s five hospitals reported 197 confirmed cases Tuesday, down from 205 on Monday. Five percent of adult intensive-care beds were available Tuesday.
Most of the county’s detailed dashboard remained offline, meaning no updates on age ranges and hometowns for the positive cases.
In other nearby counties:
- San Joaquin County has 235 COVID-19-related deaths among 13,870 cases.
- Merced County has 74 deaths among 6,102 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 159 cases and two deaths.
- Mariposa County has 63 cases and two deaths.
As of Tuesday evening, there were 578,946 confirmed cases in California and 10,523 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 5,141,879 U.S. cases and 164,545 deaths.
Here is the state tracker.
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This story was originally published August 12, 2020 at 4:38 AM.
