The rate of adjusted COVID-19 cases in San Luis Obispo County fell to 9.4, according to updated reopening values released on Tuesday.
This meets the state criteria to allow the resumption of outdoor sports. Last week, the state issued new guidelines saying that organized and recreational youth sports and adult recreational sports can resume on February 26 in counties where COVID-19 case rates are at or below 14 cases per 100,000 people.
Last Tuesday, the adjusted SLO County case rate was 15.6. It has fallen every week since the state home order was lifted in Southern California, and the county has returned to purple.
The county’s positivity rates also fell this week, both the overall positivity rate and the positivity index of the healthy place index (HPI), now at orange levels (3.2% and 3.8%, respectively). ). Another week like this and the county could move to a less restrictive level.
County Public Health Officer Dr. Penny Borenstein previously said SLO County could move from purple to red if both positivity rates remain at orange levels for two weeks. Otherwise, the county’s adjusted case rate will need to reach 7 or less.
San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Health
Public health officials in San Luis Obispo County also reported 42 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the county’s total number to 19,500 confirmed cases since Feb. 23.
The county also added an additional COVID-19 death. So far, SLO County has recorded 221 deaths attributed to the virus.
Health officials say 22 people are currently hospitalized. Another 596 are recovering at home, and health officials say 18,642 people have recovered.
Nineteen of the 38 licensed beds and ICU staff in the county are currently occupied. Seven of them are taken by patients with COVID-19.
Breakdown of cases by location:
- Paso Robles – 3,859
- San Luis Obispo – 3,660
- California Men’s Colony (detainees) – 2,377
- Atascadero – 1,817
- Nipomo – 1,467
- Arroyo Grande – 1,375
- Grover Beach – 803
- Ocean – 669
- 589. Templeton
- San Miguel – 481
- Bears – 446
- Morro Bay – 400
- Cal Poly (campus residents) – 341
- Pismo Beach – 309
- Atascadero State Hospital (patients) – 206
- Cambria – 174
- Shandon – 138
- Saint Margaret – 128
- Creston – 80
- Cayucos – 68
- Avila Beach – 27
- San Simeon – 21
- Bradley – 7
The locations of an additional 50 cases are under investigation, and another eight are listed as ‘other’, which includes communities with less than five cases. The Department of Public Health does not identify these locations.
COVID-19 community testing sites are currently open to the public in San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles, Morro Bay, Grover Beach and Nipomo.
Appointments are available, but now accessories are also accepted. Click here to schedule an appointment.
San Luis Obispo County currently vaccinates health care workers and residents age 65 and older. For details on how to make an appointment, click here.
For more information on the county’s COVID-19 response, visit readyslo.org.