Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Agency for Health and Human Services, with data until December 21.
ICU capacity and order of stay at home:
- The current ICU capacity for the Southern California region is now 0.0% and will be updated daily by the state.
- The Regional Stay Home Order is still in force and prohibits meetings of any size with people from other households and adds restrictions for several sectors.
- The order will last at least three weeks or until the capacity of the ICU region reaches or exceeds 15%. The order will be evaluated by the state after a period of three weeks.
Community outbreaks:
- Five new community outbreaks were confirmed on December 21: two in business, one in kindergarten / preschool / child care, one in the TK-12 school and one in the government.
- In the last seven days (December 15 – December 21), 39 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:
- 24,031 tests were reported to the county on December 21, and the percentage of new cases confirmed by the laboratory was 10%.
- The average continuous 14-day percentage of positive cases is 9.7%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The daily average of 7 days of tests is 28,584.
- People at higher risk of COVID-19 who are with or without symptoms should be tested. People with any symptoms should be tested. Healthcare and key workers should also receive a test, as well as people who have had close contact with a positive case or live in communities that are severely affected. Those who have recently returned from travel or who have attended holiday meetings are also urged to be tested.
Cases:
- 2,381 new cases were reported to the county on December 21. The total for the region is now 132,098.
- 5,492 or 4.2% of all cases required hospitalization.
- 1,155 or 0.9% of all cases and 21% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
deaths:
- 28 new deaths from COVID-19 were reported to the county on December 21. The total for the region is now 1,311.
- 16 men and 12 women died between December 9 and December 21, and their ages ranged from the early 1950s to the mid-1990s.
- All but one had underlying medical conditions.
More information:
More detailed summaries of the data found on County website coronavirus-sd.com are updated daily around 17:00.