Coronavirus update, April 15: Stanislaus reaches 1,023 deaths, 53,692 positive tests
Stanislaus County added three deaths to COVID-19 and 42 new cases Wednesday, the Health Services Agency said.
A total of 1,023 residents have died since last April. Stanislaus has 53,692 positive tests, 538,419 negative test results and 52,228 people who are presumed recovered.
On the state dashboard Tuesday, where numbers reflect the previous day, the positive rate was 5.59%, up from 3.97% a day earlier. The rolling seven-day rate was 4.04%, up from 3.92%. The 14-day rate was 4.1, down from 4.26%.
According to the Los Angeles Times tracker, the county has the ninth highest rate of infection in the last seven days among the state’s 58 counties. Its rate of deaths over the last week ranks eighth.
Stanislaus stayed in the red tier with Tuesday’s weekly reassessment by the state of each county’s status. It is the third most restrictive in the four-tier plan for business and other activities.
Other details:
Hospital cases: There were 80 patients with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county’s five hospitals Wednesday, up from 78 the day before. Twelve staffed intensive care beds were available to adults, up from six.
Vaccines: As of Wednesday, 176,870 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, unchanged since March 26. This includes 85,429 doses to health care providers and 91,441 to public health.
Here is this week’s county vaccination schedule.
- Thursday, April 15: Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 L St., Modesto; 1st dose, Pfizer (please make appointment but walk-ins available while supplies last), 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (or until supplies run out)
- Thursday, April 15: Waterford Community Center, 540 C St.; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (or until supply runs out); 2nd dose Moderna (no appointment needed)
- Thursday, April 15: Valley Mountain Regional Center, 1820 Blue Gum Ave., Modesto; drive-thru clinic for 1st dose Pfizer; appointment needed; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (or until supply runs out)
- Friday, April 16: Gladys L. Lemmons Senior Community Center, 450 East A St., Oakdale; 1st dose, Moderna (please make appointment but walk-ins available while supplies last); 2nd dose (no appointment necessary), 9 a.m.-4 p.m., (or until supplies run out)
- Friday, April 16: Hammon Senior Center, 1033 West Las Palmas Ave., Patterson; 1st dose, Moderna (please make appointment but walk-ins available while supplies last), 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2nd dose (no appointment necessary) (or until supplies run out)
Saturday, April 16: Stanislaus State University, 1 University Circle, Turlock; 1st dose, Pfizer (please make appointment but walk-ins available while supplies last); 2nd dose Pfizer (no appointment necessary) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (or until supplies run out)
California has administered 23,721,226 vaccines as of Wednesday, up from 23,227,199 on Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker. The state ranks 25th in the country, having administered 60,035 doses per 100,000 residents. New Hampshire ranks first, Alabama 50th among the states.
It’s important to note that if you’ve had part or full vaccination, wearing a mask and keeping with all the safety precautions like social distancing is still recommended by the Centers for Disease for Control and Prevention. Also, those who have had COVID-19 still need to be vaccinated.
Case demographics: Here are the breakdowns of the positive tests in Stanislaus County as of Wednesday:
- 53.5% are female
- 46.5% male
- 8.4% are 14 years or younger
- 16.4% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.2% are 25 to 34
- 17.2% are 35 to 44
- 14.8% are 45 to 54
- 12.1% 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 20,117 positive cases
- Turlock has 7,250
- Ceres has 5,428
- Patterson has 2,559
- Riverbank has 2,491
- Oakdale has 1,808
- Newman has 1,185
- Waterford has 643
- Hughson has 586
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,826
- District 5 has 2,551
- District 2 has 2,250
- District 1 has 1,285
- District 4 has 428
Here’s a look at the numbers from nearby counties through Wednesday:
- San Joaquin County has 1,334 COVID-19-related deaths among 71,229 cases.
- Merced County has 450 deaths among 31,128 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 4,062 cases and 64 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 417 cases and seven deaths.
As of Wednesday morning, there were 3,708,716 confirmed cases in California and 60,717 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 31,422,228 U.S. cases and 564,405 deaths.
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This story was originally published April 15, 2021 at 4:43 AM.
