Coronavirus Update, Jan. 25: Infection rates continue to fall; hospitalization steady
Stanislaus County’s COVID-19 infection rates and hospitalizations held steady on Sunday.
The county’s 14-day rolling positivity rate dropped for a fourth straight day to 16.85%, falling slightly from the day before although above the state rate of 9.8%. Stanislaus has the 29th highest infection rate among California’s 58 counties over the past seven days, according to the Los Angeles Times tracker.
Its seven-day rate fell to 12.94%, down from 14.43% the day before.
The county added 246 cases Sunday for a total of 44,184 since March. Stanislaus has 371,642 negative test results and 39,816 residents who are presumed recovered.
There were no deaths reported for the fourth straight Sunday.
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Stanislaus County health care facilities remained at 282. There were five available staffed adult intensive care unit beds, down from nine the day before.
Declining numbers also were seen at the state level, where the number of available staffed adult ICU beds rose. That was also seen in four of the five regions, including the San Joaquin Valley, which stood at 1.3%. The Bay Area was at 23.4%, the Sacramento area at 11.9% and the rest of Northern California at 41.2%. Southern California remained at 0%.
The stay-at-home order, which, in part, is based on regionwide ICU capacity, could reportedly could be lifted by Gov. Gavin Newsom as soon as Monday.
As of Sunday, 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/.
California has administered 2,199,908 doses, up from 2,008,220 the day before, according to the CDC tracker. The doses administered per 100,000 state residents is 5,568, which ranks 38th in the country, up from 39th the day before.
Here are the demographic breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Saturday:
- 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 16,030 positive cases
- Turlock has 5,859
- Ceres has 4,577
- Patterson has 2,195
- Riverbank has 1,977
- Oakdale has 1,371
- Newman has 1,002
- Waterford has 510
- Hughson has 461
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,302
- District 5 has 2,114
- District 2 has 1,795
- District 1 has 1,002
- District 4 has 327
- 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 351 cases and four deaths.
As of Monday morning, there were 3,168,528 confirmed cases in California and 36,846 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 24,128,378 U.S. cases and 419,225 deaths.
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This story was originally published January 25, 2021 at 5:14 AM.
