COVID-19 case update for Lake Tahoe area counties

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County health officials today said there have been ten new cases of COVID-19 in the county. Three in Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, three in Placervile, two in the Lake Tahoe region, one in El Dorado Hills and one in Diamond Springs/El Dorado. Of the new cases, five are aged 18-49, four aged 50-64 and one aged 65 or over, and eight of the new positive cases are female, two male.

The county was notified 124 test results came back as negative, and there have been 16 likely recoveries.

One person has been discharged from the hospital, leaving one case in the ICU with no suspected cases.

The are currently 203 assumed active cases.

Here is a new interactive dashboard for COVID-19 that shows all current data in both Spanish and English. The new 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 which serves as the best approximation of the date of infection:
- symptom onset date
- diagnosis date
- specimen collection date
- date received
- date of death

The rate of new cases in El Dorado County, as shown on the dashboard pictured above, or found HERE, is the number of cases received in the state’s electronic lab reporting system (CalREDIE) over a 14-day period. The 14-day case rate being used to make the determination for whether or not a county is on the monitoring list is being calculated using episode date.

The 7-day positivity rate for El Dorado County is 4.8 percent, and the 14-day rate of new cases is 123. The Lake Tahoe and El Dorado Hills regions are High (case rate per 100,000 population over the previous 14 days of 100 or greater). Much of the balance of the county is Moderate (case rate per 100,000 population over the previous 14 days of 26-99).

The new dashboard also shows a graph of all cases, to date, or the estimated date a person become infected.

County-wide there have been 589 cases with 284 of those in the Lake Tahoe area (including South Lake Tahoe, Meyers, Strawberry, and Tahoma).

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 14 (Zip codes 95726, 95720, 95709)
El Dorado Hills - 130 (Zip Code 95762)
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 24 (Zip codes 95623, 95619)
North County - 10 (Zip codes 95664, 95614, 95651, 95635, 95634, 95633)
Greater Placerville - 62 (Zip codes 95643, 95613, 95667)
Cameron Park, Shingle Springs - 62 (Zip codes 95672, 95682)
South County - 4 (Zip codes 95684, 95656, 95629, 95666, 95636)
Lake Tahoe region - 284 (Zip codes 96150, 96142, 95735, 95721, 96151, 96152, 96154, 96155, 96156, 96157, 96158, 95646)

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

Carson City Health and Human Services (CCHHS) is reporting sixteen new positive cases and twenty-seven additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. This brings the total number of cases to 652, with 504 recoveries and ten deaths, 138 cases remain active.

The new cases are:
• A male Douglas County resident in his 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Douglas County resident in her 60’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Douglas County resident in his 60’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Carson City resident in her 20’s with a connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Carson City resident in his 20’s with a connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Lyon County resident in his 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Douglas County resident in his 70’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Douglas County resident under the age of 18 with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Douglas County resident in his 40’s with a connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Carson City resident in his 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Douglas County resident in his 50’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Douglas County resident in her 50’s with no connection to a previously reported case.

Carson City Health and Human Services is working to identify close risk contacts to prevent further spread of the disease. Due to medical privacy requirements and to protect their identity, no further information about the cases will be released.

Carson City
-303 Total Cases (+3 from 7/28)
-57 Active (-8 from 7/28)
-239 Recovered (+11 from 7/28)
-7 Deaths (+0 from 7/28)

Douglas County - 24 (+0) are in the 89448 and 89449 part of Lake Tahoe
-157 Total (+8 from 7/28)
-39 Active (+0 from 7/28)
-118 Recovered (+8 from 7/28)

Lyon County
-188 Total (+5 from 7/28)
-40 Active (-3 from 7/28)
-145 Recovered (+8 from 7/28)
- 3 Deaths (+0 from 7/28)

Storey County
-4 Total (+0 from 7/28)
-2 Active (+0 from 7/28)
-2 Recoveries (+0 from 7/28)

TOTAL
-652 Total Cases (+16 from 7/28)
-138 Active (-11 from 7/28)
-504 Recovered (+27 from 7/28)
-10 Deaths (+0 from 7/28)
-12 Hospitalizations (+0 from 7/28)

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/. Statewide numbers can be found at the Nevada Health Response website (nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/).

Washoe County

The Regional Information Center is reporting 104 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths in Washoe County since yesterday.

Total COVID-19 cases in Washoe County: 4,965 (+104 from 7/28)
Deaths: 111 (+3)
Estimated recoveries: 3,634 (+98)
Active cases: 1,220 (+3)
Currently hospitalized: 86 (-1)
Cases who have discharged from hospital: 361 (+13)

67 (+1) of the confirmed cases to date are in Incline Village with 13 (-1) active ones, and one active and one recovered case in Crystal Bay.

Placer County

There have been 68 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in Placer County since yesterday.

Lake Tahoe area cases - 10 (+0) are in Tahoe City, 46 (+0) in Kings Beach, six (+0) in Olympic Village, 15 (+1) in Truckee.

Their seven-day test rate is 8.5 percent positive, and 14-day case rate is 124.5 per 100,000. Seven-day increase is 17 percent, 14-day increase is 49 percent.

1,790 cases (+105) with 87 (+2) in the Lake Tahoe area
Hospitalized - 61 (+5) with 13 (-1) in ICU
Deaths - 15 (+0)
Negative test results - 35,645 (+160)
Likely recoveries - 1,395 (+53)

Nevada County

There were three new cases of COVID-19 in Nevada County with two of those in the Truckee area.

Confirmed cases - 288 (+3) with 148 (+2) in East County (Truckee area)
Likely recovered - 243 (+13)
Active Cases - 41 (-1)
Deaths - 1 (+0)
Hospitalizations - 1 (+0)
Patients tested for the week - 12,346 (+0)

Alpine County

Confirmed Cases - 2 (+0)
Active Cases - 0 (-0)
Likely recovered - 2 (+0)
Deaths - 0
Hospitalized - 0