Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Agency for Health and Human Services, with data until April 20.
Vaccination progress:
- More than 2.58 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been delivered to the region and more than 2.35 million have been registered as administered. This number includes both county residents and those working in San Diego County.
- Overall, nearly 1.32 million residents in the county received at least one photo of the two-dose vaccine. This represents 49% of those eligible.
- Of those vaccinated so far, nearly 847,000 residents in the county, or 31.5% of San Diegans aged 16 and over, are completely immunized.
- The goal is complete vaccination 75% of San Diego County residents aged 16 and over or 2,017,011 people. To date, 65.3% of the target population has received at least one vaccine and 42% 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 dispatched and the number of vaccinations administered is approximately what is expected to be used 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.
State values:
- The state-adjusted adjusted case rate in San Diego County is currently 6.1 cases per 100,000 residents (as of April 20).
- The county remains at the Orange or Tier 3 level under the new guidance of the state. The California Department of Public Health indicates 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 vulnerable people. , especially among vaccinated individuals, and both test positivity and adjusted case rates show an increase in transmission. Currently, this is not the case in the region.
- Currently, the percentage of test positivity is 2.4%, 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 27.
Community outbreaks:
- Eight new outbreaks were confirmed on April 20: two in a restaurant / bar, two in food / retail, one in a kindergarten / preschool / child care setting, one in a government setting, one in a setting business and one in a TK-12 within the classroom.
- In the last seven days (April 14 to April 20), 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 cases of COVID-19 in a setting and in people from different households in the last 14 days.
Testing:
- 16,947 tests were reported to the county on April 20, and the percentage of new positive cases was 2%.
- The average continuous 14-day percentage of positive cases is 1.7%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The daily average of 7 days of tests is 12,872.
Cases, hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU:
- 263 COVID-19 cases were reported to the county on April 20. The total for the region is now 275,631.
- 15,186 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
- 1,676 or 0.6% of all cases and 11% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
Deaths:
- Seven new COVID-19 deaths were reported on April 20. The total of the region is 3,681.
- Four women and three men died between April 4 and April 19.
- Of the people who died, two were 80 years old or older, one was 70 years old, two were 60 years old, one was 50 years old and one was 40 years old.
- They all had underlying medical conditions.
More information:
More detailed summaries of the data found on County coronavirus-sd.com website are updated daily around 17:00.