Coronavirus update, Feb. 1: Stanislaus County’s key numbers at near two-month low
Infection rates and total hospitalizations tied to COVID-19 continued to dip in Stanislaus County on Sunday at the close of what’s been the deadliest month of the pandemic.
The county announced zero deaths for the fifth straight Sunday, leaving the total for the month at 212, ahead of the previous record of 188 in December. Nearly half of the 828 reported fatalities since the county’s first in April have come in the last two months.
Despite that somber news, the county’s 14-day positivity rate dropped to 13.8%, its lowest since Dec. 4, according to the state dashboard. The 6% decline from the previous 14 days outpaces the state’s 4.8% decrease over the same period.
There were 238 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases in the area’s health care facilities, the lowest total since the 215 reported on Dec. 7. There were two available staffed adult intensive care unit beds, up from zero on Saturday.
The 282 positive test results announced Sunday raised the total to 46,122. Stanislaus also has 390,910 negative test results and 42,388 people who are presumed recovered from the virus.
The county’s seven-day rolling positivity rate fell slightly to 14.75% from the day before after a single-day rate of 10.25%.
Over the last seven days, Stanislaus County’s infection rate per 100,000 residents ranks 19th among the state’s 58 counties and rate of death is 19th, according to the Los Angeles Times COVID-19 tracker. Its overall death rate per 100,000 residents remains fourth in the state. Its infection rate per 100,000 residents is 16th.
A long-term projection of easing ICU capacity prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday to lift the stay-home order in the 12-county San Joaquin Valley Region. Stanislaus remains in the purple tier, the most restrictive for business and gatherings.
As of Friday, 41,200 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County. This includes 19,660 doses to health care providers and 21,540 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/.
California has administered 3,285,351 doses as of Monday morning, up from 3,095,781 on Sunday morning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker. The state ranks 39th in the country, having administered 8,315 doses per 100,000 residents. Alaska ranks first, Idaho 50th among the states.
Here are the demographic breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Sunday morning:
- 53.7% are female
- 46.3% male
- 8% are 14 years or younger
- 16.5% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.5% are 25 to 34
- 17.3% are 35 to 44
- 15% are 45 to 54
- 11.9% are 55 to 64
- 6.6% 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 16,856 positive cases
- Turlock has 6,152
- Ceres has 4,804
- Patterson has 2,290
- Riverbank has 2,084
- Oakdale has 1,432
- Newman has 1,043
- Waterford has 539
- Hughson has 494
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,401
- District 5 has 2,225
- District 2 has 1,896
- District 1 has 1,062
- District 4 has 338
- San Joaquin County has 853 COVID-19-related deaths among 61,901 cases.
- Merced County has 350 deaths among 26,230 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,549 cases and 49 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 367 cases and five deaths.
As of Monday morning, there were 3,324,264 confirmed cases in California and 40,928 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 26,188,167 U.S. cases and 441,331 deaths.
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This story was originally published February 1, 2021 at 5:55 AM.
