Coronavirus Update, Jan. 19, 2021: Stanislaus County surpasses San Joaquin in deaths
Stanislaus County on Monday surpassed its more populous neighbor to the north, San Joaquin County, in total deaths related to COVID-19, according to state data.
Ten more deaths were reported by Stanislaus County, bringing to 749 the total number of fatalities since its first in April. San Joaquin County has 748 reported deaths.
According to the California State Department of Finance, the July population estimates put Stanislaus County at 551,264 residents and San Joaquin at 769,322.
San Joaquin County has not released new data since Friday, and is expected to update its statistics on Tuesday.
Stanislaus County’s overall death rate per 100,000 residents is third highest in the state behind Imperial and Inyo counties, respectively, and just head of Los Angeles County. San Joaquin County is eighth and Merced fifth.
At the rate of death over the last two months, total fatalities related to COVID-19 by April could surpass the number of average deaths a year in the county caused by cancer. From 2014 to 2018, the county averaged 895 deaths a year due to cancer, second to heart disease (1,207), according to the county’s Health Services Agency.
Stanislaus County’s positivity rate dropped slightly on Monday while its hospitalization of residents with confirmed coronavirus cases ticked upward.
The state reported Stanislaus County’s 14-day rate was at 19.85%, down from 20.30% the day before but up 3.8% from the previous 14 days. Its single-day rate on Sunday was 13.1%. The state’s overall 14-day rate is 12.2%.
Meanwhile, the county reported 323 hospitalizations of residents with confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday afternoon, up from 318 the day before. The number of available staffed adult intensive care unit beds was at three, down from five the day before.
The county Monday reported 211 new cases and has 42,548 total cases since reporting its first in March. There have been 356,275 negative test results and 37,102 residents who are presumed recovered.
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 a projection of 15%. As of Saturday, the San Joaquin and Southern California regions were at 0%. The Bay Area was at 3.4%, the Sacramento area at 6.2% and the rest of Northern California at 24%.
Based on future projections, Gov. Gavin Newsom lifted the month-long order in the Sacramento Region, citing the stabilization of the 13-county area’s ICU capacity.
In terms of vaccinations, as of Saturday, 33,850 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, up from 25,225 in previous days. Of those, 18,960 were to health care providers and 14,890 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 and Phase 1B, Tier 1, which includes those over the ages of 65, community health workers, public health field staff, in-home supportive services and dental and oral health clinics, among others.
There are three groupings, or tiers, of residents or worker classifications in Phase 1A, two in Phase 1B and one in Phase 1C.
Information regarding vaccinations in Stanislaus County is on the county dashboard at http://schsa.org/coronavirus/vaccine/.
Here are the demographic breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Monday:
- 53.6% are female
- 46.4% male
- 7.7% are 14 years or younger
- 16.5% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.6% are 25 to 34
- 17.4% 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 15,485 positive cases
- Turlock has 5,686
- Ceres has 4,456
- Patterson has 2,132
- Riverbank has 1,917
- Oakdale has 1,327
- Newman has 962
- Waterford has 497
- Hughson has 441
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,205
- District 5 has 2,044
- District 2 has 1,739
- District 1 has 972
- District 4 has 319
- San Joaquin County has 748 COVID-19-related deaths among 56,484 cases.
- Merced County has 296 deaths among 23,492 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,359 cases and 38 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 346 cases and four deaths.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 2,991,731 confirmed cases in California and 33,623 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 23,938,290 U.S. cases and 397,611 deaths.
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This story was originally published January 19, 2021 at 5:00 AM.
