Coronavirus update, Jan. 6: Stanislaus deaths reach 638. Hospital cases rise again
Latest facts on COVID-19 in Modesto area
Stanislaus County reported seven COVID-19 deaths for the second straight day Tuesday and another rise in hospital patient counts.
A total of 638 residents have died since the first one last April, the county Health Services Agency said.
The county added 184 positive tests Tuesday, for a total of 36,439. Stanislaus also has 316,908 negative test results and 32,273 residents who are presumed recovered from the virus.
The county’s five hospitals had 340 confirmed cases Tuesday, up from 328 the previous day. The number of ICU beds available to adults rose from one to three.
Tight ICU capacity is why a stay-home order has been in place since Dec. 6 in Stanislaus and 11 other counties in the San Joaquin Valley Region.
The seven-day positivity rate for Stanislaus was at 16.87% and the 14-day rate at 15.86% – both rates higher than the previous day. The single-day rate of 25.81% was the third time it’s been above 21% in the last five days, according to state data.
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:
- 53.9% are female
- 46.1% male
- 7.5% are 14 years or younger
- 16.2% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.7% are 25 to 34,
- 17.5% are 35 to 44,
- 15.1% are 45 to 54
- 12% are 55 to 64
- 6.5% are 65 to 74
- 3.5% are 75 to 84
- 2% are 85 or older.
- Though they make up 47 percent of the population, Latinos represented 63.7 percent of the positive cases.
Geographically:
- Modesto has 13,039 positive cases
- Turlock has 4,929
- Ceres has 3,882
- Patterson has 1,763
- Riverbank has 1,610
- Oakdale has 1,107
- Newman has 781
- Waterford has 426
- Hughson has 362
- Supervisorial District 3 has 1,874
- District 5 has 1,765
- District 2 has 1,506
- District 1 has 801
- District 4 has 247
- San Joaquin County has 672 COVID-19-related deaths among 49,306 cases.
- Merced County has 266 deaths among 20,774 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,063 cases and 22 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 277 cases and four deaths.
As of Wednesday morning, there were 2,500,302 confirmed cases in California and 27,519 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 21,052,689 U.S. cases and 357,385 deaths.
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This story was originally published January 6, 2021 at 5:34 AM.
