Coronavirus update, Jan. 22: Stanislaus reports seven deaths. Hospitals level off
Stanislaus County reported seven deaths to COVID-19 on Thursday, and a continued leveling off in the hospital patient count.
A total of 773 residents have died since the pandemic emerged last spring, the Health Services Agency reported.
The patient count at the county’s five hospitals was at 307 on Thursday, up from 304 the previous two days. The numbers are down from early January but still of concern. The number of available staffed adult intensive care beds was at seven, up from six the day before.
The county Thursday reported 271 new cases for a total of 43,392 since March. Stanislaus also has 362,987 negative test results and 38,822 residents who are presumed recovered.
The state reported that the Stanislaus seven-day positivity rate was at 15.81%, down from 17.33% a day earlier. The 14-day rate was 18.32%, up from 18.9% and a 1.8% increase from the previous 14 days. The state’s 14-day rate is 11.0%, down 2.3% from the previous 14 days.
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 Thursday, the San Joaquin and Southern California regions were at 0%. The Bay Area was at 7%, the Sacramento area at 8.3% and the rest of Northern California at 28.1%.
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.
As of Thursday, 33,850 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, unchanged for several 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.
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 Thursday:
- 53.7% are female
- 46.3% male
- 7.8% are 14 years or younger
- 16.5% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.6% are 25 to 34
- 17.3% 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 15,813 positive cases
- Turlock has 5,795
- Ceres has 4,523
- Patterson has 2,164
- Riverbank has 1,951
- Oakdale has 1,357
- Newman has 991
- Waterford has 504
- Hughson has 451
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,264
- District 5 has 2,085
- District 2 has 1,766
- District 1 has 993
- District 4 has 323
- San Joaquin County has 806 COVID-19-related deaths among 59,096 cases.
- Merced County has 320 deaths among 24,788 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,417 cases and 40 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 346 cases and four deaths.
As of Thursday morning, there were 3,100,027 confirmed cases in California and 35,797 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 24,633,790 U.S. cases and 410,383 deaths.
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This story was originally published January 22, 2021 at 6:10 AM.
