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.

EL DORADO COUNTY
There have been 19 new cases of COVID-19 and two new deaths recorded since yesterday in El Dorado County. This brings the total of COVID-19 cases in the county to 26,515. This does not include all at-home tests that may have been positive. Case rates continue to drop.

There are now 7.8 new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 residents in the county, the lowest in weeks.

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

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 1412 cases - +0
El Dorado Hills - 5959 cases - +5
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 1288 cases - +1
North County - 1376 cases - +0
Greater Placerville - 4688 cases - +2
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 4716 cases - +5
South County -385 cases - +0
Lake Tahoe region - 6400 cases - +3

(3) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 257)

5 aged 0-17, 10 aged 18-49, 4 aged 50-64, 0 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 24)

1,206 additional negative test results
38 assumed recoveries (25,815)
1543 assumed active cases

To date, 199 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were two new deaths recorded today: A male, 65+ from the Tahoe Region; and a male, 65+ from Shingle Springs, Cameron Park, Rescue. This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

There are 8 (+1) hospitalized with 5 (-0) in the ICU in El Dorado County. Barton Hospital has 4 (+1) hospitalized COVID patients, Marshall Hospital in Placerville has 4 (+0). Barton has 3 ICU patients, Marshall has 2. 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: 7.8 per 100,000 (-1.2)
Positivity rate: 4.7% (-.2%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 6.3% (-.9%)

Vaccine measures (based on county population, eligible and not eligible).
There are currently 180,786 residents age 5+ that are eligible:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 116,418 (60.3%) (+0%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 127,732 (66.1%) (+0%)

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

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 17.4 per 100,000 (-9.0)
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 7.6 per 100,000 (-4.1)
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 5,384 (+44)

DOUGLAS COUNTY

From January 30 to February 12, 2022, there were 331 confirmed cases reported in Douglas County. This represents approximately nineteen of all Quad-County cases during this two-week period. There was a sixty-one 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 twenty-three. This indicates that, on average, there have been twenty-three new cases each day throughout Douglas County. Douglas
County is seeing a decrease in the average number of cases reported each week. Forty-nine percent of cases were female, and fifty-one percent were male. The average age of Douglas County cases was forty-seven years old.

There were twenty-three student case investigations completed from January 30 – February 12, 2022. Of these student cases, ninety-six percent attended school while infectious. There were four school faculty members that
tested positive for COVID-19. Of these faculty cases, fifty percent attended school while infectious.

WASHOE COUNTY

Daily New Cases: 32 (-32)
Deaths: 1,159 (+14)
Ages 5+ fully vaccinated: 64.98% (+0%)
Percent of fully vaccinated people testing positive: 7.66% (+.14%)
Breakthrough Cases: 120,345 (+842)

PLACER COUNTY

Average Daily New Cases: 38.57 (-11.29)
Deaths: 586 (+18)
Total Reinfections: 1,553 (101)
Total Cases: 62,259 (+307)
Post-vaccination cases: 14,752 (+401)
Percent of populations vaccinated: 66.1% (+.1%)