Coronavirus update, March 18: Daily new cases depict setback for Stanislaus County
Stanislaus County had 91 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, exceeding the rate that could help with reopening the economy.
The county Health Services Agency once again announced two deaths, for a total of 976 residents since last spring.
Part of relaxing the state rules means keeping new cases to an average of 55 a day or fewer. Stanislaus did that with the 42 on Tuesday and 43 on Monday.
The county now has a total of 51,839 positive tests, 482,129 negative test results and 50,179 people who are presumed recovered.
Other details:
Hospital cases: The county’s five hospitals remained at 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. The winter count got a low as 78 on March 6 and topped 300 in early January. Staffed intensive-care beds available to adults were at 13, up from seven Tuesday.
Positive rates: On the state dashboard Wednesday, where numbers reflect the previous day, the county had a 8.04% positive rate, up from 4.36% the day before. The rolling seven-day rate was 6.01%, down from 6.14%. The 14-day rate was 6.27%, the same as the day before.
According to the Los Angeles Times daily tracker showed, the county is sixth among the 58 counties when it comes to new cases over the past seven days. It ranks 16th in deaths over the past seven days.
Vaccines: As of Wednesday, 121,870 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, unchanged for several days. This includes 62,257 doses to health care providers and 59,613 to public health.
The public vaccination clinic schedule for this week:
▪ Thursday, Modesto: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 L St. Second doses of Pfizer.
▪ Thursday, Waterford: 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Waterford Community Center, 540 C St. First doses of Moderna.
▪ Friday, Turlock: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Geer Road entrance to Stanislaus State University. Single doses of Johnson & Johnson.
▪ Friday, Patterson: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Hammon Senior Center, 1003 W. Las Palmas Ave. First doses of Moderna.
▪ Friday, Oakdale: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Gladys Lemmons Senior Center, 450 East A St. First and second doses of Moderna.
▪ Saturday, Modesto: 9 a.m.-5 p.m, Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 L St. First doses of Pfizer.
More information is on the county dashboard at http://schsa.org/coronavirus/vaccine/.
California has administered 13,161,027 vaccines as of Wednesday, up from 12,686,451 on Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker. The state ranks 36th in the country, having administered 33,309 doses per 100,000 residents. Alaska ranks first, Georgia 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:
- 53.6% are female
- 46.4% male
- 8.4% are 14 years or younger
- 16.4% are ages 15 to 24
- 19.3% 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 19,202 positive cases
- Turlock has 7,018
- Ceres has 5,311
- Patterson has 2,486
- Riverbank has 2,401
- Oakdale has 1,714
- Newman has 1,146
- Waterford has 627
- Hughson has 573
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,693
- District 5 has 2,481
- District 2 has 2,154
- District 1 has 1,215
- District 4 has 408
Here’s a look at the numbers from nearby counties through Wednesday:
- San Joaquin County has 1,213 COVID-19-related deaths among 68,301 cases.
- Merced County has 425 deaths among 30,027 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 4,003 cases and 59 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 400 cases and seven deaths.
As of Thursday morning, there were 3,631,320 confirmed cases in California and 56,987 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 29,608,162 U.S. cases and 538,093 deaths.
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This story was originally published March 18, 2021 at 4:52 AM.
