State Officials Announce Latest COVID-19 Facts
From the California Department of Public Health:
Today, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) released the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state.
Projected ICU capacity remains below 15% in the Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions which remain under the Regional Stay at Home Order. The order will be lifted for a region once its four-week ICU projection shows a capacity of greater than or equal to 15%. Re-entry framework for a region that has recently exited the Regional Stay at Home Order is being finalized.
Current Status of Regional Stay at Home Order in Affected Regions
- San Joaquin Valley: Remains under order; four-week ICU capacity projections do not meet criteria to exit order.
- Southern California: Remains under order; four-week ICU capacity projections do not meet criteria to exit order.
- Bay Area: Remains under order; four-week ICU capacity projections do not meet criteria to exit order.
The ICU capacity projections are based on four factors: current estimated regional ICU capacity available, measure of current community transmission, current regional case rates and the proportion of ICU cases being admitted. Decreasing community transmission and increasing the health system capacity can help a region’s projected ICU capacity so they can exit the order.
Counties within the Greater Sacramento and Northern California regions are under the tiering system and rules of the Blueprint for a Safer Economy. Read the full Regional Stay Home Order, Supplement to the Order, and frequently asked questions.
Due to high rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations impacting the health care system, California is also under a Limited Stay at Home Order. The order applies to all counties that are currently under the Regional Stay at Home Order and those in Tier One (Purple) of the Blueprint for a Safer Economy. The Limited Stay at Home Order will expire after the Regional Stay At Home Order has been terminated in all regions of the state.
Hospital Surge Order
CDPH updated the Hospital Surge Public Health Order to clarify when hospitals must make notifications to state and local authorities on January 15. The update included technical updates and updates on when specific terms of the order take effect. The updated order continues to require some non-essential and non-life-threatening surgeries to be delayed in counties with 10% or less of ICU capacity under the Regional Stay at Home Order where the regional ICU capacity is at 0%. Examples of procedures that may be delayed include carpal tunnel release and non-urgent spine surgeries. Surgeries for patients who have serious and urgent medical conditions will continue. Examples of procedures that will continue include serious cancer removal and necessary heart surgeries.
The order requires hospitals statewide to accept patient transfers from facilities that have implemented contingency or crisis care guidelines as long as those transfers can be done capably and safely. On December 28, 2020 CDPH provided guidance to health care facilities on implementing the Crisis Care Continuum Guidelines issued in June 2020.
Counties Currently Impacted by the Hospital Surge Order:
San Joaquin Valley: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Benito, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare.
Southern California: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura
Statewide COVID-19 Data as of Today
- California has 3,109,151 confirmed cases to date. Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.
- There were 24,111 newly recorded confirmed cases Saturday.
- The 7-day positivity rate is 8.1% and the 14-day positivity rate is 9.8%.
- There have been 40,285,715 tests conducted in California. This represents an increase of 315,596 during the prior 24-hour reporting period.
- As case numbers continue to rise in California, the total number of individuals who will have serious outcomes will also increase. There have been 36,790 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.
- As of January 23, providers have reported administering a total of 2,191,111 vaccine doses statewide. Numbers do not represent true day-to-day change as reporting may be delayed. As of January 23, a total of 4,135,625 vaccine doses, which includes the first and second dose, have been shipped to local health departments and health care systems that have facilities in multiple counties.
Tracking COVID-19 in California
State Dashboard – Daily COVID-19 data
County Map – Local data, including tier status and ICU capacityData and Tools – Models and dashboards for researchers, scientists and the public
Blueprint for a Safer Economy – Data for establishing tier status
ADDITIONAL DATA & UPDATES
Vaccinate All 58In order to increase the pace of COVID-19 vaccine distribution to those at greatest risk, the state is prioritizing individuals 65 and older to receive the vaccine as demand subsides among health care workers. This effort will help to reduce hospitalizations and safe lives. For more information on the vaccine effort, visit the Vaccinate All 58 webpage.
Safe Schools for All
Governor Gavin Newsom launched the Safe Schools for All Hub as a one-stop shop for information about safe in-person instruction. For more information on the transparency, accountability and assistance measures related to California’s Safe Schools for All plan, visit the Safe Schools for All Hub.
Travel AdvisoryCDPH has issued an updated travel advisory. Postponing travel and staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others from COVID-19. Non-essential travelers from other states or countries are strongly discouraged from entering California and should adhere to the state’s self-quarantine procedures for 10 days.
Health Care Workers
As of January 23, local health departments have reported 82,574 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 324 deaths statewide.Health Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing inequities in health that are the result of structural racism and poverty, and the disproportionate prevalence of underlying conditions such as asthma and heart disease among Latinos and African Americans. California is committed to understanding these inequities to help ensure the best health outcomes for all Californians. View COVID-19 Race & Ethnicity Data and Cases and Deaths by Age Group. Visit the new Health Equity Dashboard.Testing Turnaround Time
The testing turnaround time dashboard reports how long California patients are waiting for COVID-19 test results. During the week of January 10 to January 16, the average time patients waited for test results was 1.5 days. During this same time period, 61% of patients received test results in one day and 85% received them within two days.Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
As of January 18, 176 cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) have been reported statewide. MIS-C is a rare inflammatory condition associated with COVID-19 that can damage multiple organ systems. MIS-C can require hospitalization and be life threatening.
Your Actions Save Lives
Protect yourself, family, friends and your community by following these prevention measures:
- If you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, muscle or body aches), call your health care provider.
- If you believe you have been exposed, get tested. Free, confidential testing is available statewide.
- Stay home except for essential activities and follow state and local public health guidance.
- Keep interactions to people who live in your household.
- Wear a cloth face mask when out in public.
- Avoid non-essential travel and stay close to home; self-quarantine for 10 days after arrival if you leave the state.
- Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
- Avoid close contact with people who are sick and stay home from work, school and other people if you feel ill.
- Add your phone to the fight by signing up for COVID-19 exposure notifications from CA Notify.
- Answer the call or text if a contact tracer from the CA COVID Team or your local health department tries to connect.
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“The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing inequities in health that are the result of structural racism and poverty”
Uh yeah, you’re unhealthy and fat because of racism, lol what the actual fuck?
Haven’t you heard? Everything is racist now. No one is responsible for xiself anymore.
More like you’re working an essential job with no ability to work from home or take time off and no or awful health insurance, because of racism. And you eat empty carbs, making you unhealthy and fat, because it’s much cheaper than good food and is all you can afford, because racism.
That last part is BS. I can feed my whole family all day with healthy raw ingredients for the price of a single McDonalds meal. 250 servings of brown rice is $14, that is 6 cents a serving, 50lbs of #2 potatoes is $12, that is 12 cents a serving. A 50lb sack of flour is $14 and will last us around 7 months feeding the sourdough daily with everyone getting their fill of skillet crumpets daily. Most vegetables can be had for around 30cents a serving, some like onions or #2 carrots are closer to 15cents and chicken or pork can be had for around 30-50 cents a serving. We drink water and are perfectly happy with it.
Bushy thinks all black people work at airports and eat kfc and drink grape soda and also probably doesn’t know ANY black people
If racism is the cause, then the governments don’t actually have to fix anything like enouraging manufacturing as opposed to service industries, encouraging illegal immigration, creating ultra expensive housing, discouraging quality hospitals and reducing doctor numbers, etc. All they have to do is nag incessantly. The most important thing is it’s not any elected officials fault.
If you pious intone that people are racist because they oppose State encouraging undocumented immigrants in huge numbers and you simultaneously demand restricted building of houses, manufacturing and other infrastructure for employing them in well paying jobs needing educated citizens, then you can rest assured it’s all other people who are racist. But don’t be surprised when the result of this schizophrenic belief system is the latest rush of people without local language skills,whoever they are, entering the country find themselves in low paying service jobs, crowded housing and complaining about the lack of opportunity because that is the inevitable result. In fact it’s a self fulfilling prophecy in action.
Got my 1st vaccine yesterday. Doesn’t seem to have altered my genome, and, it didn’t cause my immediate death, or, an attack of anaphylaxis: didn’t really seem to do much of anything, except I had a headache after 4-5 hours, and my arm is about as sore as when getting my Pneumonia and Flu vaccine.
I do feel a bit cranky today. The flu shot is worse.
Signed, A fat 68 year old man.
And remember, it’s 3.1 million cases that we KNOW ABOUT… there’s absolutely many more than that, which dilutes the mortality rate to way less than 1.1%.
It has about .26 percent mortality rate. Always has. Since week one. It’s the same today. Unless it mutates into a more deadly whatever it’ll will stay at .26 That’s 2.6 people dead out of 1,000. That’s 1 person dying out of every 384 people that get infected. I don’t even think I know 384 people.
Where are you getting these numbers?
Northern CA man dies hours after getting vaccine.
This you ????
https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/california/northern-california-man-dies-hours-after-getting-coronavirus-vaccine/amp/
“It’s unknown where he got his vaccine or which vaccine he received, as officials have yet to say. ”
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““My first inclination is that it’s probably not related to the vaccine,” Blumberg told FOX40. “We know that the severe allergic reactions that occur following immunization, the vast majority of those occur 15-30 minutes following immunization.”
Blumberg says that if it happened several hours later it is “probably not the severe allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, that we worry about.””
It was a joke, bro
The noise-to-signal ration on here makes sarcasm very difficult to detect.
I’m missing the joke part.
“Many people have died after receiving our vaccine but it is always completely coincidental.” ~pharma rep
There are risks to getting any vaccine. The judgement is whether the risk is greater on not getting one. If many (actually a relatively few) die from vaccinations, many more die from lack of vaccinations. No “pharma rep” ever guarantees nothing can possibly go wrong with a vaccine or that any individual is guaranteed perfect immunity. All they ever say is that the net saving of lives is by far greater for a population who is vaccinated.
Its possible that Im not very bright ,or CVD fatigued like everyone. 😔 But do all the different measures, stats, tiers, 15 percents of somethings make sense to you all? I read recently that Ca. stats/data are not being shown to “us” as we would be “confused”. At this point? Im just folding on trying to get it. Maybe that was the goal .
“Facts”. Yeah. How about dropping the threshold cycle of the rtPCR test to 25 (like other countries with a low number of “infections”) and watch the “cases” and “deaths” practically disappear?
Too much freedom, too early? Apparently. Will we ever see “normal” again?
I have my doubts.
Although there is a bit of truth to the idea that increasing the number of cycles increases false positives, there is no indication that other countries run less cycles. If you have any information that shows that is not just an assumption, I would like to see the reference.
Well, If its not Covid, SOMETHING caused an epidemic-level uptick in pneumonia related deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2020-2021/NCHS02.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/
A bit more than a bit actually. Unfortunately the data showing what cycle threshold other countries are using is curiously VERY hard to find. Just the numbers themselves do show some indication though as well as various “studies”.
Here is one from Japan, for example, that works through different cycle thresholds. In this case, as an attempt to verify the accuracy of a different type of test(antigen).
Towards the bottom (table 5), you’ll see that the rtPCR test was used at various thresholds in the study. They are: less than 20, 20-24, 25-29, and greater or equal to 30.
Nothing close to 40. If they were testing county-wide at 40, as the u.s appears to be, then certainly they would have numbers up to maybe 45?
I believe the last figure might refer to 32 which is the cycle universally known( except in the u.s apparently) to be the highest possible with any kind of accuracy.
Also: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/isfa-cww012221.php
🕯🌳Antigenic (Drift) copying errors by the virus will cause it to be around for years to come. Some people are are right to compare to the flu in instances. Before the flu was brought under control they went through the same process but because of the Antigenic (Drift) or simply mutation it changes and every year like the flu a vaccine will have to be created. 🖖🖖
Antigenic drift refers to the gradual accumulation of point mutations during annual circulation of influenza as a consequence of the high error rates associated with RNA-dependent RNA polymerase during virus replication. From: Infectious Diseases
So … can a mRNA vaccine have Antigenic drift and what would that mean?
Previous tests of mRNA “vaccines” on animal subjects have shown very positive results against the initial virus and very negative effects against subsequent iterations of the virus.
What tests and how long were the tests evaluated? So messaging RNA can’t drift? Says who?
What happens if it thaws out and is given anyway in order to save someones booty politically?
Lots of questions and so few answers.
My understanding is the mRNA primed the immune system for the specific virus but when a variant infected the host the immune system overreacted.
Search : mRNA ferrets SARS
The thing is your speaking of the virus, but I’m speaking of the possibility of a mutation occurring long or short term, of or in the Messaging of the mRNA, which is what the vaccine is.
From my perspective people trust the science even when there hasn’t been much science studied.
example
You go to your doctor and get a shingles shot, next day you find out you can finally get your covid vaccine, how do they react together does the messaging RNA pick up on the shingles? And then what?
Viruses like covid can change not just your messenger RNA, but your actual nucleaic DNA.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/12/coronavirus-may-sometimes-slip-its-genetic-material-human-chromosomes-what-does-mean
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
It seems now that Gavin needs to explain his criteria for evaluating the shutdowns to us dummies, well….. look what happened.
The recall is moving along quite well.
Health or politics?
California lifts virus stay-at-home orders, curfew statewide
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/california-lifts-virus-stay-at-home-orders-curfew-statewide/?trk_msg=4J7S2I3LM8O4L81QU4I6TLCDJS&trk_contact=9BJIFDA52N6DI17FT70JT5ABG8&trk_sid=7R0O0SSH8FISIR1N15AUQG0AU0&utm_email=C4DCF5A3246124E0748DA4E38A&g2i_eui=hWtcry%2b1OC7XmN4b3Uoq3Q%3d%3d&g2i_source=newsletter&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pressdemocrat.com%2farticle%2fnews%2fcalifornia-lifts-virus-stay-at-home-orders-curfew-statewide%2f&utm_campaign=pd_breaking
Please tell me…
With massive evictions coming eventually, all the lost jobs and open borders, a lack of tests and vaccines …Drugs pouring in, violence in Washington and Oregon How do you see the future?
Cum by ya! right?
I think essentially what we want to argue is the cure worse than the poison i.e. shutting people lives down and losing our freedoms. Some places have it worse than others. Age groups also older people vs kids.
That is really hard to put into a statistic.
Also trying to figure out how many people have had the disease. I would rather more because it get us to heard immunity. Others seem to think it’s less. I’ve been trying to find recent trials of testing general population not because of exposure or symptoms to accurately test for antibodies. Vaxinated or natural immunity does seem to have a shelf life. It will be different for everyone.
The funny thing 90( no link sorry)percent don’t follow the restrictions. They do because they have to but you can tell majority are over it and first chance to disregard mask are off or not on properly. Can’t really stop the heard mentality or human evolution. We have had it to good for to long life is not guaranteed.
The herd just wants to be heard! 🐂
I personally believe that my family and many of my friends have already “had it”. We didn’t and will not ever “get tested” because it’s not important. It’s been decades but I seem to recall getting the flu once. Did I “get tested”? Duh.
I stayed home and when it passed, I didn’t.
There is evidence that being asymptomatic implies you will not spread anything. Plenty.
No “restrictions” needed. Just a little old-fashioned common sense upstairs.
But since I’m already a “quack”…..this isn’t REALLY about a virus, is it?