Coronavirus update, Feb. 18: Stanislaus hospital cases go back down. Deaths at 910
Stanislaus County reported five more deaths to COVID-19 on Wednesday as total cases approached 50,000.
The county Health Services Agency put deaths at 910 since the pandemic arrived last spring. Stanislaus added 138 cases Wednesday, for a total of 49,266. The county also has 429,062 negative test results and 46,808 people who are presumed recovered.
The single-day positive rate was 8.61%, up from the previous day’s 7.33%, according to state data. The seven-day rolling rate was 7.93%, down from 8.26%. The 14-day rate was 9.61%, down from 9.97%.
According to the Los Angeles Times COVID-19 tracker, Stanislaus County has the eighth-highest rate of infection per 100,000 residents in the last week among the state’s 58 counties. Its rate of death if 15th highest. Since the pandemic’s start, its infection rate is 15th highest and death rate fourth highest.
The county’s five hospitals reported 158 patients with confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday, down from 167 on Tuesday. The count has stayed under 200 for 12 straight days and was over 300 in early January. The number of staffed adult ICU beds was at seven, up from five.
A long-term projection of easing ICU capacity prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom on Jan. 25 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.
Here is the Stanislaus County vaccination schedule for the remainder of the week:
- Modesto: Second doses Friday, first and second doses Thursday. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Modesto Centre Plaza.
- Turlock: Second doses only Thursday. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Geer Road entrance to Stanislaus State University.
- Oakdale: First dose only Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Gladys Lemmons Community Center
- Patterson has no clinics scheduled.
As of Wednesday, 55,550 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, unchanged for several days. This includes 26,625 doses to health care providers and 28,925 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 6,323,011 vaccines as of Wednesday, up from 6,210,992 on Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker. The state ranks 32nd in the country, having administered 16,003 doses per 100,000 residents. Alaska ranks first, Alabama 50th among the states.
Here are the demographic breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Wednesday:
- 53.6% are female
- 46.4% male
- 8.2% are 14 years or younger
- 16.4% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.4% are 25 to 34
- 17.2% are 35 to 44
- 14.9% are 45 to 54
- 12% 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 18,126 positive cases
- Turlock has 6,652
- Ceres has 5,057
- Patterson has 2,393
- Riverbank has 2,277
- Oakdale has 1,577
- Newman has 1,109
- Waterford has 586
- Hughson has 542
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,545
- District 5 has 2,349
- District 2 has 2,067
- District 1 has 1,152
- District 4 has 364
- San Joaquin County has 1,018 COVID-19-related deaths among 65,659 cases.
- Merced County has 382 deaths among 28,306 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 3,857 cases and 55 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 388 cases and seven deaths.
As of Thursday morning, there were 3,506,402 confirmed cases in California and 47,936 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 27,827,801 U.S. cases and 490,717 deaths.
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This story was originally published February 18, 2021 at 5:37 AM.
