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

Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Agency for Health and Human Services, with data until April 18.

More than 2.39 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine were delivered to the region and almost 2.32 million were registered as administered. This number includes both county residents and those working in San Diego County.
Of those vaccinated so far, more than 821,000 county residents, or 30.6% of San Diegans aged 16 and over, are completely immunized.
In total, more than 1.29 million people in the county received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine. That is 48.1% of those eligible.
The goal is complete vaccination 75% of San Diego County residents are 16 years of age or older or 2,017,011 people. To date, 64.1% of the target population has received at least one vaccine and 40.7% 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 administered and those used in a vaccination is approximately what is expected to be administered 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, state-calculated case rate in San Diego 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 advised 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. Currently, this is not 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.

No new community outbreaks were confirmed on April 18.
Five new outbreaks of the community were confirmed on April 17, one in a business setting, one in an emergency services setting, one in a faith-based agency setting, one in a restaurant / bar setting and one in a retail setting.
Two new community outbreaks were confirmed on 16 April, one in a care / preschool / childcare setting and one in a faith-based agency setting.
In the last seven days (April 12 to April 18), 21 outbreaks of 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 COVID-19 cases in a setting and in people from different households in the last 14 days.

6,982 tests were reported to the county on April 18, and the percentage of new positive cases was 2%.
The average continuous percentage of 14 days of positive cases is 1.8%. The target is less than 8.0%.
The daily average of 7 days of tests is 12,877.

152 COVID-19 cases were reported to the county on April 18. The total for the region is now 275,112.
15,144 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
1,676 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

No new deaths were reported with COVID-19. April 18. The total of the region is 3,674.
No further deaths were reported on April 17.
Twelve additional deaths were reported on April 16.
Seven of these deaths occurred in December and five in April. The December deaths were just added to the list after a rigorous review of death certificates that were incorrect or incomplete and required analysis of patients’ medical records to determine if they were COVID-19 deaths.
Five women and seven men died between December 10, 2020 and April 14, 2021.
Of those reported dead on Saturday, four were 80 or older, four were 70, two were 60 and two were 50.
Eleven had underlying medical conditions and one did not.

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

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