Weekly wrap-up of COVID-19 cases at 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 14 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 26,603. This does not include all at-home tests that may have been positive.

There are now 5.8 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 - 1425 cases - +2
El Dorado Hills - 5994 cases - +3
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 1292 cases - +0
North County - 1384 cases - +2
Greater Placerville - 4701 cases - +3
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 4733 cases - +2
South County -386 cases - +1
Lake Tahoe region - 6417 cases - +0

(1) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 258)

Ages of new cases: 0 aged 0-17, 4 aged 18-49, 4 aged 50-64, 6 aged 65+

677 additional negative test results
36 assumed recoveries (26,037)
365 assumed active cases

To date, 202 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 6 (-0) hospitalized with 4 (+1) in the ICU in El Dorado County. Barton Hospital has 4 (-1) hospitalized COVID patients, Marshall Hospital in Placerville has 2 (+1). Barton has 2 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 are 8 available ICU beds in the county, 2 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 6 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: 6.1 per 100,000 (+.3)
Positivity rate: 3.7% (+0%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 4.7% (-.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: 116,481 (60.3%) (+0%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 127,726 (66.1%) (+0%)

As of Tuesday, March 8, 2022 (updated on Tuesdays):

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 9.1 per 100,000 (-8.3)
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 3.4 per 100,000 (-4.2)
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 5,394 (+10)

DOUGLAS COUNTY

From February 20 to March 5, 2022, there were 70 confirmed cases reported in Douglas County. This represents approximately 25% of all Quad-County cases during this two-week period. There was a 23% 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 89410.

The daily cases reported, based on a seven-day average over this two-week period was 5. This indicates that, on average, there have been 5 new
cases each day throughout Douglas County. Douglas County is seeing a decrease in the average number of cases reported each week. Sixty-six
percent of cases were female and 34% were male. The average age of Douglas County cases was 49 years old.

There were 2 student case investigations completed from February 20 to March 5, 2022. None of these students attended school while infectious. There were no school faculty members that tested positive for COVID-19.

According to the Nevada State COVID-19 Dashboard, approximately 54% of Douglas County residents are fully vaccinated as of March 1, 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: 27 (-5)
Deaths: 1,169 (+10)
Ages 5+ fully vaccinated: 65.07% (+.09%)
Percent of fully vaccinated people testing positive: 7.83% (+.17%)
Breakthrough Cases: 20,828

PLACER COUNTY

Average Daily New Cases: 24.71 (-13.86)
Deaths: 594 (+8)
Total Reinfections: 1,569 (+16)
Total Cases: 62,442 (+183)
Post-vaccination cases: 14,824 (+72)
Percent of populations vaccinated: 66.1% (+0%)