Coronavirus update, Nov. 13: Stanislaus details recent cases by ZIP code; trend poor
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Stanislaus County once again exceeded a key limit for avoiding a return to tighter rules on business and other activities. Meanwhile, its online dashboard has ZIP code data that now tracks hotspots, the number of cases in the last 30 days.
The state reported 79 new cases in the county Wednesday, nearly double the desired 40. Stanislaus could return to the purple tier, the most restrictive of the four on the state rating system. It advanced last month to red and is appealing to state officials to stay there.
The state, which offers fuller data on the number of total tests, reported that the single-day infection rate was 8.48% on Wednesday, based on 931 tests. The seven-day rolling rate was 7.66%, up from 7.25% on Tuesday. The 14-day rate was 6.31%, up from 6.05%, according to the state website.
The ZIP code data shows 196 cases in the western and southern portions of Turlock in the past 30 days. The ZIP code (95380) includes neighborhoods on both sides of West Main and areas south of East Hawkeye Avenue. The northern part of Turlock (95382) has 140 new cases in the past month.
With 175 new cases, the 95355 ZIP code in Modesto, east of Coffee Road and north of Scenic Drive, emerged as a recent hot spot in the city. West and south Modesto (95351) has 150 new cases. Modesto ZIP codes have a total of 716 cases in the past month.
Ceres (95307) and Patterson (95363) each have 147.
The Health Services Agency reports that 18,852 residents countywide have tested positive as of Thursday. Another 109,936 tested negative, and 17,751 are presumed recovered.
Deaths in the county were unchanged at 410 on Thursday.
Hospitalizations of confirmed COVID patients in the five county hospitals were at 70, up from 61 on Wednesday. The number of available adult intensive care unit beds was 10, down from 15.
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Of the positive cases through Thursday:
- 54% are female
- 46% male
- 8% are 14 years or younger
- 16% are ages 15 to 24
- 20% 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 6,974 positive cases
- Turlock has 2,649
- Ceres has 2,312
- Patterson has 985
- Riverbank has 930
- Oakdale has 451
- Newman has 379
- Waterford has 286
- Hughson has 196
- Supervisorial District 5 has 1,196
- District 3 has 1,063
- District 2 has 885
- District 1 has 417
- District 4 has 148
In other nearby counties:
- San Joaquin County has 500 COVID-19-related deaths among 23,224 cases.
- Merced County has 166 deaths among 10,313 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 443 cases and eight deaths.
- Mariposa County has 89 cases and two deaths.
As of Thursday evening, there were 1,006,195 confirmed cases in California and 18,141 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 10,557,551 U.S. cases and 242,436 deaths.
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