Coronavirus update, Dec. 30: Ten more deaths bring Stanislaus near 600. ICU’s tight
Latest facts on COVID-19 in Modesto area
Stanislaus County announced 10 more deaths to COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing it close to 600 since the pandemic began.
December has brought 168 of the 596 deaths, the county Health Services Agency said. The previous monthly high was the 152 in August.
The county’s five hospitals had 327 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, down from 333 on Monday. That is about 100 more than the peak of the summer surge.
Tuesday brought the unwelcome news that a stay-at-home order will remain in place because of tight ICU space in Stanislaus and 11 other counties in the San Joaquin Valley Region.
The state would have lifted the Dec. 6 order Tuesday if at least 15% of the region’s ICU beds for adults were free. The index has been at zero for 12 straight days.
The county reported 276 new cases Tuesday, for a total of 33,899. Stanislaus also has 300,597 negative test results and 29,365 people who are presumed recovered from the virus.
The 14-day positive rate was at 15.16% and the seven-day rate at 15.06%.
Information regarding vaccinations in Stanislaus County is on the county dashboard at schsa.org/coronavirus/vaccine/.
The demographic breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Tuesday:
- 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 12,243 positive cases
- Turlock has 4,675
- Ceres has 3,656
- Patterson has 1,672
- Riverbank has 1,528
- Oakdale has 1,019
- Newman has 743
- Waterford has 386
- Hughson has 325
- Supervisorial District 3 has 1,759
- District 5 has 1,676
- District 2 has 1,430
- District 1 has 759
- District 4 has 230
- San Joaquin County has 628 COVID-19-related deaths among 44,660 cases.
- Merced County has 248 deaths among 19,066 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 2,841 cases and 21 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 226 cases and four deaths.
As of Wednesday morning, there were 2,232,911 confirmed cases in California and 24,988 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 19,515,528 U.S. cases and 338,656 deaths.
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