COVID-19 cases for South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - Cases of COVID-19 continue to surge not only across the country but in California and El Dorado County. There have been 176 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 18,470.

There are now 36 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents in the county.

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

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 1033 cases - +2
El Dorado Hills - 4021 cases - +32
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 906 cases - +3
North County - 1034 cases - +5
Greater Placerville - 3365 cases - +12
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 3323 cases - +16
South County - 281 cases - +1
Lake Tahoe region - 4251 cases - +80

(25) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 246)

17 aged 0-17, 122 aged 18-49, 28 aged 50-64, 9 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 14)

2,357 additional negative test results
38 assumed recoveries (16,807)

To date, 175 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 13 (-4) hospitalized with 6 (+1) in the ICU in El Dorado County. Barton Hospital has 8 of the hospitalized patients, Marshall Hospital in Placerville has 5. Barton has 2 ICU patienst, Marshall has 4. 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 0 available ICU beds in the county, 0 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 0 at Marshall in Placerville. Barton has said there are plenty of beds available even if the state's website doesn't show it.

Rates:
Case rate: 36 per 100,000 (+7.3)
Positivity rate: 11.9% (+2.0%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 10.6% (+2.5%)

Vaccine measures (based on county population, eligible and not eligible). There are currently 180,786 residents age 5+ that are eligible:

Cumulative fully vaccinated: 112,638 (58.3%) (+.0%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 124,072 (64.3%) (+.1%)

As of Tuesday, January 4, 2022:

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 49.3 per 100,000 (+23.0)
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 26.1 per 100,000 (+13.6)
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 2,078 (+383)