Coronavirus update, Nov. 6: Daily case total returns to desired range in Stanislaus
Latest facts on COVID-19 testing in Modesto area
Stanislaus County acheived a key milestone for the first time in nearly a week, keeping new COVID-19 cases at 40 or fewer.
The state reported that only 34 new cases were added Wednesday. The number should average 40 if the county is to avoid moving back into the purple tier in the state ranking system. It has the tightest rules on business and other activities.
The county announced another death Thursday, bringing the total to 405 since the first was reported April 10.
According to the state dashboard, which differs from the county dashboard in that it reports more negative tests, the single-day positivity rate was 3.68% on Wednesday. That is based on 34 positive cases out of 923 tests. The rolling 14-day positivity rate was 4.84%.
The county last month advanced out of the purple tier and into the less-restrictive red tier. It has to maintain low rates and per capita numbers in order to stay there or advance to orange.
As of Thursday, the county Health Services Agency said 18,204 residents have tested positive, 106,112 tested negative and 17,378 are presumed recovered.
The number of COVID-19 patients in the five Stanislaus County hospitals was at 54 on Thursday, down from 57 on Wednesday. The county had just four intensive care beds available for adults, down from 10.
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Of the positive cases:
- 54% are female
- 46% male
- 7% are 14 years or younger
- 16% are ages 15 to 24
- 21% are 25 to 34,
- 18% are 35 to 44,
- 15% are 45 to 54
- 12% are 55 to 64
- 6% are 65 to 74
- 3% are 75 to 84,
- 2% are 85 or older.
- Though they make up 47 percent of the population, Latinos represented 64 percent of the positive cases.
Geographically:
- Modesto has 6,725 positive cases
- Turlock has 2,479
- Ceres has 2,260
- Patterson has 938
- Riverbank has 899
- Oakdale has 425
- Newman has 372
- Waterford has 276
- Hughson has 189
- Supervisorial District 5 has 1,154
- District 3 has 1,034
- District 2 has 843
- District 1 has 403
- District 4 has 145
In other nearby counties:
- San Joaquin County has 494 COVID-19-related deaths among 22,556 cases.
- Merced County has 163 deaths among 9,916 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 318 cases and seven deaths.
- Mariposa County has 81 cases and two deaths.
As of Thursday evening, there were 958,223 confirmed cases in California and 17,872 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 9,611,293 U.S. cases and 234,949 deaths.
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