COVID-19 case update for Lake Tahoe area counties

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County health officials say another 185 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since yesterday. Of those, 58 are in El Dorado Hills, 32 in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue, 11 in North County, 11 in Greater Placerville, nine in Diamond Springs/El Dorado, 13 in Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, four in South County, 51 in Lake Tahoe region. There four less awaiting address confirmation (total still awaiting address confirmation is 14).

One of those new cases, 17 are under the age of 18, 96 are aged 18-49, 40 are aged 50-64, and 32 aged 65 or older.

Another 816 people were tested for the coronavirus and 631 negative tests results were received.

There have been another 41 assumed recoveries with 736 assumed active cases.

There are currently eleven COVID-19 patients hospitalized with four of them in the ICU and two suspected cases hospitalized.

To date there have been four deaths.

The county moved into the purple tier November 17.

To view the interactive dashboard: http://eldoradocounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/b5315baf88c34be996a16c6f0b8fdcfb

The County dashboard shows cases by episode date, not by the date El Dorado County Public Health was notified about the new case. Episode date is the earliest of the following dates: (symptom onset date, diagnosis date, specimen collection date, date received, or date of death) and serves as the best approximation of the date of infection.

The 7-day positivity rate for El Dorado County is 8.5 percent positivity and the 14-day rate of new cases is 262 (+2) xxx (these figures do not include today's data).

With respect to the tier assignment measures:
Adjusted case rate: 18
Positivity rate: 7.4%
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 7.7%

The Lake Tahoe region of the county is in the High Tier (case rate per 100,000 population over the previous 14 days of 100) and is joined there by El Dorado/Diamond Springs, Shingle Springs/Cameron Park/Rescue, El Dorado Hills, Placerville and now Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz and North County, South County is in the Moderate Tier (case rate per 100,000 population over the previous 14 days of 26-99). No region is in the low tier (25 or less per 100,000 for last 14 days).

County-wide there have been 2,315 cases with 830 of those in the Lake Tahoe area (including South Lake Tahoe, Meyers, Strawberry, and Tahoma).

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 98, 43 in last 14 days, 317
per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95726, 95720, 95709)

El Dorado Hills - 628, 195 in the last 14 days, 459 per 100,000 rate (Zip Code 95762)

Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 70, 18 in the last 14 days, 249 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95623, 95619)

North County - 78, 36 in the last 14 days, 249 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95664, 95614, 95651, 95635, 95634, 95633)

Greater Placerville - 252, 61 in the last 11 days, 167 per 100,000 (Zip codes 95643, 95613, 95667)

Cameron Park, Shingle Springs, Rescue - 322, 93 in the last 14 days, 263 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95672, 95682)

South County - 23, 7 in the last 14 days, 67 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95684, 95656, 95629, 95666, 95636)

Lake Tahoe region - 830, 209 in the last 14 days, 691 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 96150, 96142, 95735, 95721, 96151, 96152, 96154, 96155, 96156, 96157, 96158, 95646)

Quad-Counties - Carson City, Douglas, Storey, Lyon

These figures are from Wednesday as their offices were closed Thursday and Friday.
The total number of cases is 4,314, with 2,062 recoveries and 33 deaths; 2,062 cases remain active.

Carson City
-2,241 Total Cases (+80 from 11/24)
-1,252 Active (+80 from 11/24)
-975 Recovered (+0 from 11/24)
-14 Deaths (+0 from 11/24)

Douglas County (Cases in the Lake Tahoe area - 59 (+0) and 0 active cases (+0)
-856Total (+46 from 11/24)
-349 Active (+46 from 11/24)
-504 Recovered (+0 from 11/24)
-3 Deaths (+0 from 11/24)

Lyon County
-1,165 Total (+34 from 11/24)
-438 Active (+34 from 11/24)
-711 Recovered (+0 from 11/24)
-16 Deaths (+0 from 11/24)

Storey County
-52 Total (+1 from 11/24)
-23 Active (+1 from 11/24)
-29 Recoveries (+0 from 11/24)

TOTAL
-4,161 Total Cases (+161 from 11/24)
-2,062 Active Cases (+161 from 11/24)
-2,219 Recovered (+0 from 11/24)
-33 Deaths (+0 from 11/24)

Gender and age break down of the cases by county as well as the cases by zip code is available at https://gethealthycarsoncity.org/novel-coronavirus-2019/.

Hospital data from Wednesday:

In Carson City there are currently 45 (+4) people hospitalized with 10 (+0) of them in the ICU. There are 2 suspected cases of COVID-19 in the hospital.

In Douglas County there are currently 11 (+2) people hospitalized with COVID-19 with 2 (+1) of them in the ICU along with no suspected cases in the ICU.

Washoe County

The Regional Information Center is reporting 815 new COVID-19 cases and eight new deaths in Washoe County since Wednesday.

Total COVID-19 cases in Washoe County: 24,079 (+815) from 11/25
Deaths: 266 (+8)
Estimated recoveries: 14,864 (+117)
Active cases: 8,949 (+690)
Currently hospitalized: 241 (+11) and suspected COVID-19 hospitalized: 12
Currently in ICU: 63 (+3)

153 (+5) of the confirmed cases to date are in Incline Village with 41 (+5) active ones, and on new active case and two recovered cases in Crystal Bay.

Hospital data from Wednesday:

Number of licensed in-person beds and occupancy - 1518 - 71%
Number of staffed in-patient beds and occupancy - 1305 - 83%
ICU Beds - 233
Occupied ICU Beds - 138 - 59%

Placer County

There have been 130 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in Placer County since Wednesday.

Lake Tahoe area cases - 65 (+1) are in Tahoe City, 174 (+1) in Kings Beach, 21 (+0) in Olympic Valley, 38 (+0) in Truckee, 18 (+0) in Carnelian Bay.

Their seven-day test rate is 6.5 percent positive, and average daily case rate for last 7 days is 20.6 per 100,000. Seven-day increase is 6.7 percent, 14-day increase is 18.5 percent.

South Placer - 154.4 cases per 100,000
Mid Placer - 102.7 cases per 100,000
East Placer - 81.1 cases per 100,000

6,354 cases (+130) with 340 (+5) of those in the Lake Tahoe area
Hospitalized - 114 (+19) with 12 (+6) in ICU
Deaths - 68 (+0)
Negative test results - 154,068 (+2,580)
Likely recoveries - 5,264 (+173)

Nevada County

There data will not be updated until Monday. Below is from Wednesday.

There are 52 new cases of COVID-19 in Nevada County with 8 of those new cases near the Truckee area since yesterday.

Confirmed cases - 1,131 (+52) with 429 (+8) of those in East County (Truckee area)
Likely recovered - 867 (+41)
Active Cases - 307 (-21)
Deaths - 9 (+0)
Hospitalizations - 13 (+3)
Patients tested for the week - 27,339 (+0)

Alpine County

Due to the positivity of current tests, the Alpine County Public Health Officer expects them to move from the orange tier to red tier within days.

Confirmed Cases - 50 (+3)
Active Cases - 7 (+1)
Likely recovered - 43 (+2)
Deaths - 0
Hospitalized - 1 (+0)