Weekly wrap up of COVID-19 cases for counties around Lake Tahoe

Weekly roundup of COVID-19 around Lake Tahoe. All are for the week except El Dorado data, which is from yesterday. South Tahoe Now will start to carry only weekly updates every Friday due to the declining cases and hospitalizations.

EL DORADO COUNTY

There have been 11 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 26,692. This does not include all at-home tests that may have been positive.

There are now 3.6 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 - 1434 cases - +2
El Dorado Hills - 6030 cases - +2
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 1298 cases - +0
North County - 1390 cases - +1
Greater Placerville - 4716 cases - +1
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 4743 cases - +2
South County - 391 cases - +2
Lake Tahoe region - 6425 cases - +1

(0) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 265)

Ages of new cases: 1 aged 0-17, 5 aged 18-49, 1 aged 50-64, 4 aged 65+

662 additional negative test results
17 assumed recoveries (26,208)
280 assumed active cases

To date, 202 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were no new deaths recorded. This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

There are 3 (-0) hospitalized with 2 (+2) in the ICU in El Dorado County. Barton Hospital has 2 (-0) hospitalized COVID patients, Marshall Hospital in Placerville has 1 (-0). Barton has 1 ICU patient, Marshall has 1. 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 are 3 available ICU beds in the county, 2 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: 3.6 per 100,000 (-.5)
Positivity rate: 2.6% (-.1%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 4% (-.7%)

Vaccine measures (based on county population, eligible and not eligible).
There are currently 180,786 residents age 5+ that are eligible:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 116,452 (60.3%) (+0%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 127,648 (66.1%) (+0%)

As of Tuesday, March 15, 2022 (updated on Tuesdays):

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 8.4 per 100,000 (-.7)
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 2.8 per 100,000 (-.6)
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 5,423 (+29)

DOUGLAS COUNTY

From February 27 to March 12, 2022, there were 60 confirmed cases reported
in Douglas County. This represents approximately thirty-three percent of all
Quad-County cases during this two-week period. There was a fourteen
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 89423. The zip codes at Lake Tahoe: 89448 - 4 cases, 89449 - 2 cases, 89413 - 0.

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

There were two student case investigations completed from February 27 – March 12, 2022. Of these student cases neither attended school while infectious. There were no school faculty members that tested positive for
COVID-19.

WASHOE COUNTY

Weekly New Cases: 185
Deaths: 1,172 (+3)
Ages 5+ fully vaccinated: 61.5% (-4.2%)
Percent of fully vaccinated people testing positive: 8.03% 7.83% (+.20%)
Breakthrough Cases: 21,339 (+511)

PLACER COUNTY

Average Daily New Cases: 22.14 (-2.54)
Deaths: 604 (+10)
Total Reinfections: 1,595 (+26)
Total Cases: 62,628 (+186)
Post-vaccination cases: 14,885 (+61)
Percent of populations vaccinated: 66.1% (+0%)