Coronavirus update, March 30: Stanislaus deaths approach 1,000 as tier status awaits
Stanislaus County announced four deaths to COVID-19 on Monday, bringing its total to 996 residents since last April.
The county added 81 cases, for a total of 52,473. The Health Services Agency also reported 504,991 negative test results and 50,981 people who are presumed recovered.
Stanislaus will get its weekly update Tuesday on the state’s four-tier system of COVID-19 restrictions. It improved last week from the worst, purple, to the next worst, red. Staying there depends on meeting several criteria.
Other details:
Hospital cases: The county’s five hospitals had 84 patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday, up from 80 on Sunday. Eight staffed intensive care beds were available to adults, down from 15.
Positive rates: On the state dashboard Monday, where numbers reflect the previous day, the county showed a single-day positivity rate of 4.07%, up from 3.99% a day earlier. Its seven-day rate was 5.39%, down from 5.7%. The 14-day rate was 6.81%, up from 6.76%.
According to the Los Angeles Times daily tracker showed, the county is 20th among the 58 counties when it comes to new cases over the past seven days. It ranks 20th in deaths over the past seven days.
Vaccines: As of Monday, 176,870 doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been allocated to Stanislaus County, unchanged since Friday. This includes 85,429 doses to health care providers and 91,441 to public health.
Here is the county vaccination schedule for the week of March 28 to April 3 (they are also available at some stores and health-care providers):
- Tuesday, Modesto: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 L St. First doses of Pfizer.
- Tuesday, Oakdale: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Gladys Lemmons Senior Center, 450 East A St. First doses of Moderna.
- Tuesday, Crows Landing: 3 to 7 p.m., West Stanislaus Fire District, 22012 G St. First doses of Moderna.
- Wednesday, Turlock: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Geer Road entrance to Stanislaus State University. First and second doses of Pfizer.
- Thursday, Modesto: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Modesto Centre Plaza, 1000 L St. First and second doses of Pfizer.
- Friday, Patterson: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Hammon Senior Center, 1033 W. Las Palmas Ave. First and second doses of Moderna.
- Friday, Oakdale: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Gladys Lemmons Senior Center, 450 East A St. First and second doses of Moderna.
- Saturday, Turlock: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Geer Road entrance to Stanislaus State University. First and second doses of Pfizer.
More information is on the county dashboard at http://schsa.org/coronavirus/vaccine/.
California has administered 17,703,550 vaccines as of Monday, up from 17,335,016 on Sunday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracker. The state ranks 29th in the country, having administered 44,805 doses per 100,000 residents. New Mexico 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 Monday:
- 53.6% are female
- 46.4% male
- 8.4% are 14 years or younger
- 16.3% 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 19,524 positive cases
- Turlock has 7,097
- Ceres has 5,336
- Patterson has 2,516
- Riverbank has 2,435
- Oakdale has 1,749
- Newman has 1,161
- Waterford has 633
- Hughson has 574
- Supervisorial District 3 has 2,756
- District 5 has 2,505
- District 2 has 2,183
- District 1 has 1,242
- District 4 has 416
Here’s a look at the numbers from nearby counties through Monday:
- San Joaquin County has 1,259 COVID-19-related deaths among 69,550 cases.
- Merced County has 435 deaths among 30,521 cases.
- Tuolumne County has 4,031 cases and 62 deaths.
- Mariposa County has 410 cases and seven deaths.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 3,663,913 confirmed cases in California and 59,030 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. There were 30,332,259 U.S. cases and 550,071 deaths.
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This story was originally published March 30, 2021 at 4:49 AM.
