Weekly recap of COVID-19 cases in counties around Lake Tahoe

Weekly roundup of COVID-19 around Lake Tahoe. All except El Dorado County are for the week and El Dorado data is from yesterday.

EL DORADO COUNTY

There have been 71 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths recorded since yesterday in El Dorado County. This brings the total of COVID-19 cases in the county to 25,395. This does not include all at-home tests that may have been positive. Case rates continue to drop.

There are now 58.8 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents in the county.

There is an interactive dashboard for the county with extra details here: See HERE.

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 1339 cases - +15
El Dorado Hills - 5623 cases - +26
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 1191 cases - +6
North County - 1323 cases - +5
Greater Placerville - 4390 cases - +29
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 4410 cases - +27
South County -370 cases - +1
Lake Tahoe region - 6126 cases - +22

(-60) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 622)

9 aged 0-17, 19 aged 18-49, 20 aged 50-64, 23 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 22)

1,935 additional negative test results
368 assumed recoveries (22,227)
3012 assumed active cases

To date, 189 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were no new deaths recorded today. This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

There are 20 (-1) hospitalized with 5 (+0) in the ICU in El Dorado County. Barton Hospital has 4 hospitalized COVID patients, Marshall Hospital in Placerville has 16. Barton has 0 ICU patients, Marshall has 5. There is no tracking of patients transferred from El Dorado County hospitals to regional hospitals, or county residents at other hospitals.

Currently, the State's website says there is 1 available ICU bed in the county, 0 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 1 at Marshall in Placerville. Bed capacity fluctuates daily based on many factors; therefore, the data posted on the State's site may not be an accurate depiction of the current situation.

Rates:
Case rate: 58.8 per 100,000 (-5.9)
Positivity rate: 18.1% (-1.5%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 22.3% (-4.0%)

Vaccine measures (based on county population, eligible and not eligible).
There are currently 180,786 residents age 5+ that are eligible:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 115,040 (59.6%) (+.1%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 126,691 (65.6%) (+.0%)

As of Tuesday, February 1, 2022 (updated on Tuesdays):

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 140.3 per 100,000 (-31.9)
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 68.5 per 100,000 (-6.3)
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 4,755 (+538)

DOUGLAS COUNTY

From January 16– January 29, 2022, there were 1211 confirmed cases reported in Douglas County. This represents approximately 23 percent of all Quad-County cases during this two-week period. There was a six percent decrease from the previous two-week period. The zip code in Douglas County that reported the highest number of cases during this two-week period was 89460.

The daily cases reported, based on a seven-day average over this two-week period was 86. This indicates that, on average, there have been 86 new cases each day throughout Douglas County. Douglas County is seeing a decrease in the average number of cases reported each week. Fifty-four percent of cases
were female, and forty-six percent were male. The average age of Douglas County cases was forty-one years old.

The zip codes at Lake Tahoe: 89413 (+6), 89449 (+97), and 89448 (+37) new cases during this period.

There were 94 student case investigations completed from January 16 to January 29, 2022. Of these student cases, 74 percent attended school while infectious. There were 13 school faculty members that tested positive for COVID-19. Of these faculty cases, 85 percent attended school while
infectious.

According to the Nevada State COVID-19 Dashboard, approximately fifty-three percent of Douglas County residents are fully vaccinated as of January 26, 2022. Carson City Health and Human Services continue to work with community stakeholders on vaccination outreach to increase vaccination rates among the community.

WASHOE COUNTY

Daily New Cases: 321 (-477)
Deaths: 1,094 (+35)
Active Cases: 26,042 (+2,577)
Ages 5+ fully vaccinated: 64.19% (+.34%)
Percent of fully vaccinated people testing positive: 6.84% (+1.45%)
Breakthrough Cases: 17,942 (+3,875)

PLACER COUNTY

Average Daily New Cases: 389.14 (-196.43)
Deaths: 536 (+13)
Total Reinfections: 1,313 (+265)
Total Cases: 59,466 (+3,488)
Post-vaccination cases: 13,323 (+1,622)
Percent of populations vaccinated: 64.8% (+.4%)