Coronavirus update, Jan. 23: Stanislaus hospital cases slip below 300. Deaths at 782
Hospital cases of COVID-19 went below 300 for the first time in several weeks Friday, a glimmer of hope in the winter surge.
Another nine residents have died, for a total of 782 since last spring, the Health Services Agency reported.
The county’s five hospitals had 295 patients with confirmed cases of the virus Friday, compared with 307 on Thursday. It’s the first time it’s dipped below 300 since early December. The number of available staffed adult intensive care beds was at five, down from seven the day before.
The county added 252 cases Friday for a total of 43,644 since March. Stanislaus also has 365,626 negative test results and 39,272 residents who are presumed recovered.
The state reported that the Stanislaus seven-day positivity rate was at 15.68%, down from 15.81% a day earlier. The 14-day rate was 17.72%, down from 18.32%.
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 Friday, the San Joaquin and Southern California regions were at 0%. The Bay Area was at 6.5%, the Sacramento area at 7.8% and the rest of Northern California at 32.6%.
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 Friday, 36,550 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, up from 33,850 on Thursday. 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 Friday:
- 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 15,915 positive cases
- Turlock has 5,816
- Ceres has 4,548
- Patterson has 2,179
- Riverbank has 1,961
- Oakdale has 1,366
- Newman has 997
- Waterford has 506
- Hughson has 458
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,280
- District 5 has 2,097
- District 2 has 1,775
- District 1 has 1,000
- District 4 has 326
- San Joaquin County has 808 COVID-19-related deaths among 59,395 cases.
- Merced County has 324 deaths among 25,048 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,443 cases and 40 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 346 cases and four deaths.
As of Saturday morning, there were 3,124,420 confirmed cases in California and 36,365 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 24,823,197 U.S. cases and 414,124 deaths.
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This story was originally published January 23, 2021 at 6:08 AM.
