COVID-19 update from San Diego County – 16-04-2021

Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Agency for Health and Human Services, with data until April 15.

More than 2.39 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to the region and almost 2.23 million were registered as administered. This number includes both county residents and those working in San Diego County.
Of those vaccinated to date, more than 784,000 residents of the county, or 29.2% of San Diegans aged 16 and over, are completely immunized.
In total, more than 1.25 million people in the county received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine. This represents 46.6% of those eligible.
The goal is complete vaccination 75% of San Diego County residents aged 16 and over or 2,017,011 people. To date, 62.2% of the target population has received at least one vaccine and 38.9% are fully vaccinated.
Those who received the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine, which is currently pending in the county, due to the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration, is added to the total of fully vaccinated San Diego.
The difference between the doses given and those used in a vaccine is about what is expected to be given in the next seven days and the doses to be entered into the registration system.
More information about the distribution of vaccines can be found in the county vaccination dashboard. For vaccination opportunities, visit www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.

The state-adjusted case rate in San Diego County is currently 6.0 cases per 100,000 residents (as of April 13).
The county remains at the Orange or Tier 3 level under the new guidance of the state. The California Department of Public Health recently recommended that unless there are mitigating circumstances, such as low vaccine absorption, a county will move to a more restrictive level only if hospitalizations increase significantly among people. vulnerable, especially among vaccinated individuals and in both tests. positivity and adjusted case rates show a worrying increase in transmission. This is not currently the case in the region.
Currently, the percentage of test positivity is 2.5%, placing the county in level 3 or Orange level.
The value of the county’s health equity, which analyzes the positivity of testing for the areas with the lowest health conditions, is 3.0% and is also in the Orange or Tier 3 level.
CDPH evaluates counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20th.

Three new community outbreaks were confirmed on April 15, one in a business, one in a residence and one in a restaurant / bar.
In the last seven days (April 9 to April 15), 17 community outbreaks have been confirmed.
The number of Community outbreaks remains above the trigger of seven or more in seven days.
A community outbreak is defined as three or more cases of COVID-19 in a setting and in people from different households in the last 14 days.

18,038 tests were reported to the county on April 15, and the percentage of new positive cases was 2%.
The average continuous 14-day percentage of positive cases is 1.8%. The target is less than 8.0%.
The daily average of 7 days of tests is 13,144.

317 COVID-19 cases were reported to the county on April 15. The total for the region is now 274,566.
15,104 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
1,673 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Nine additional deaths from COVID-19 were reported on April 15. The total of the region is 3,662.
Most of these deaths have occurred in the last few months (one in December, four in January, one in February, one in March, and two in April), but have just been added to the list after a rigorous revision of death certificates that were incorrect. or incomplete. and required analysis of patients’ medical records to determine if there were COVID-19 deaths.
Four women and five men died between December 29, 2020 and April 14, 2021.
Of the people who died, four were 80 years old or older, two were 70 years old, one was 60 years old, one was 50 years old and one person was 40 years old.
They all had underlying medical conditions.

More detailed summaries of the data found on County website coronavirus-sd.com are updated daily around 17:00.

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