Coronavirus update, Jan. 13: Stanislaus County on brink of 700 deaths, 40,000 cases
Latest facts on COVID-19 in Modesto area
Stanislaus County reported another 13 deaths to the virus Tuesday, raising the total to 699 residents since last April.
The county also added 493 positive tests and had a notable increase in the number of hospital patients, the Health Services Agency said.
January already has brought 83 deaths, about a third of the way into the month. It is on a pace to far surpass December’s 188 deaths, the most so far for any month in the pandemic. Of the 58 counties in California, Stanislaus has the ninth highest rate of deaths in the last seven days, according to the Los Angeles Times tracker. Tuolumne County which has 36 overall deaths, has the highest rate in the last week.
The Stanislaus County’s five hospitals had 343 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, up from 329 on Monday. It was the largest one-day increase this month.
The new positive tests brought the Stanislaus total to 39,709. It also has 337,439 negative test results and 34,592 residents who are presumed to have recovered from the virus.
A stay-at-home order has been in place since Dec. 6 because of tight ICU capacity in Stanislaus and 11 other counties in the San Joaquin Valley Region. The threshold to get out of the order is 15%. Through Tuesday, the San Joaquin and Southern California regions were at 0%. The Bay Area was at 4.7%, the Sacramento area at 9.4% and the rest of Northern California at 17.6%.
Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the monthlong order in the Sacramento Region, citing the stabilization of the 13-county area’s ICU capacity.
Stanislaus’ rolling seven-day positive rate was at 19.21% and the 14-day rate at 18.03% – both figures down from Monday.
Information regarding vaccinations in Stanislaus County is on the county dashboard at http://schsa.org/coronavirus/vaccine/.
As of Tuesday, 25,225 doses have been allocated to the county – 16,215 to healthcare providers and 9,010 to public health. The numbers do not include federal allocations to staff and residents at nursing care facilities and some provided directly to hospital systems.
The county is vaccinating residents considered to be in Phase 1A, Tiers 1, 2 and 3, which includes community health workers, public health field staff, in-home supportive services and dental and oral health clinics, among others. There were no immediate details on how many vaccinations were given and what percentage of those offered in Phase 1A, Tiers 1 and 2 were immunized.
There are three groupings, or tiers, of residents or worker classifications in Phase 1A, two in Phase 1B and one in Phase 1C.
The demographic breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Tuesday:
- 53.9% are female
- 46.1% male
- 7.6% are 14 years or younger
- 16.4% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.8% are 25 to 34
- 17.5% are 35 to 44
- 15% are 45 to 54
- 12% are 55 to 64
- 6.5% are 65 to 74
- 3.4% are 75 to 84
- 1.9% 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 14,173 positive cases
- Turlock has 5,308
- Ceres has 4,134
- Patterson has 1,937
- Riverbank has 1,781
- Oakdale has 1,202
- Newman has 869
- Waterford has 464
- Hughson has 404
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,027
- District 5 has 1,904
- District 2 has 1,616
- District 1 has 897
- District 4 has 287
- San Joaquin County has 724 COVID-19-related deaths among 53,994 cases.
- Merced County has 285 deaths among 22,649 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,251 cases and 36 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 331 cases and four deaths.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 2,804,663 confirmed cases in California and 31,157 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 22,849,962 U.S. cases and 380,821 deaths.
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From around the state, nation and world
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