Coronavirus update, Nov. 28: Stanislaus hospital use dips slightly; 164 new cases
Latest facts on COVID-19 testing in Modesto area
Stanislaus County had a small but welcome decline in hospital use for COVID-19 cases, along with 164 more positive tests.
The state reported that the county’s positivity rate stood at 9.4% on Thursday, based on 1,744 tests. The rolling seven-day average was 12.06%. The 14-day average was 11.74%.
The state requires a positivity rate of under 8 percent to advance to the next less restrictive tier in its system.
Two more Stanislaus residents have died of the virus, for a total of 424 as of Friday, the county Health Services Agency announced.
The county has 21,460 people who have tested positive, 220,690 who tested negative and 19,307 who are presumed recovered.
A total of 172 people were hospitalized Friday with confirmed cases of the virus, down from 177 the day before. The number was around 40 for much of early fall but has risen on most November days. Nine intensive care beds for adults were available Friday, up from four.
The demographic breakdowns of the positive tests as of Friday:
- 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 7,562 positive cases
- Turlock has 2,879
- Ceres has 2,348
- Patterson has 1,093
- Riverbank has 987
- Oakdale has 496
- Newman has 413
- Waterford has 280
- Hughson has 200
- Supervisorial District 5 has 1,216
- District 3 has 1,139
- District 2 has 913
- District 1 has 451
- District 4 has 142
In other nearby counties:
- San Joaquin County has 502 COVID-19-related deaths among 25,675 cases.
- Merced County has 179 deaths among 11,537 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 981 cases and eight deaths.
- Mariposa County has 128 cases and two deaths.
San Joaquin and Merced counties have not updated since Wednesday.
As of Saturday morning, there were 1,188,502 confirmed cases in California and 19,090 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 13,094,011 U.S. cases and 264,866 deaths.
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