COVID-19 case update for Lake Tahoe area counties

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County health officials say there are 24 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the county, ten of those in the Lake Tahoe area. The remaining 14 new cases are spread out: five are in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue, four in El Dorado Hills, two in Placerville, and one each in Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, Diamond Springs/El Dorado, and South County. Of these 24, three are under the age of 18, 14 are aged 18-49, two aged 50-64 and five aged 65 and older.

There were 217 tests for the virus given since yesterday, and 193 negative tests were returned.

There are 20 assumed additional recoveries leaving 207 assumed active cases.

Two more people have been admitted to the hospital, one of those in the ICU. There are currently no suspected cases in either Barton or Marshall hospitals.

There 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 has dropped to 4.2 percent, and the 14-day rate of new cases is 124. 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 613 cases with 294 of those in the Lake Tahoe area (including South Lake Tahoe, Meyers, Strawberry, and Tahoma).

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 15, 8 in last 14 days (Zip codes 95726, 95720, 95709)
El Dorado Hills - 134, 53 in the last 14 days (Zip Code 95762)
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 25, 4 in the last 14 days (Zip codes 95623, 95619)
North County - 10, 4 in the last 14 days (Zip codes 95664, 95614, 95651, 95635, 95634, 95633)
Greater Placerville - 64, 23 in the last 14 days (Zip codes 95643, 95613, 95667)
Cameron Park, Shingle Springs - 66, 30 in the last 14 days (Zip codes 95672, 95682)
South County - 5, 1 in the last 14 days (Zip codes 95684, 95656, 95629, 95666, 95636)
Lake Tahoe region - 294, 113 in the last 14 days (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 two additional deaths due to COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. The individuals were a male Lyon County resident in his 80’s with underlying conditions and a female Lyon County resident in her 80’s with underlying conditions. CCHHS is also reporting thirteen new cases and twenty-two additional recoveries. This brings the total number of cases to 665, with 526 recoveries and twelve deaths, 127 cases remain active.

The new cases are:
• A female Douglas County resident in her 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 70’s with a connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Douglas County resident in his 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Lyon County resident in his 70’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Lyon County resident in his 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Carson City resident in his 60’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Douglas County resident in her 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Douglas County resident in her 30’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A female Lyon County resident in her 40’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 Lyon County resident in her 40’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Lyon County resident in his 20’s with no connection to a previously reported case.
• A male Carson City resident in his 30’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
-305 Total Cases (+2 from 7/29)
-51 Active (-6 from 7/29)
-247 Recovered (+8 from 7/29)
-7 Deaths (+0 from 7/29)

Douglas County - 26 (+2) are in the 89448 and 89449 part of Lake Tahoe
-162 Total (+5 from 7/29)
-36 Active (-3 from 7/29)
-126 Recovered (+8 from 7/29)

Lyon County
-194 Total (+6 from 7/29)
-38 Active (-2 from 7/29)
-151 Recovered (+6 from 7/29)
- 5 Deaths (+2 from 7/29)

Storey County
-4 Total (+0 from 7/29)
-2 Active (+0 from 7/29)
-2 Recoveries (+0 from 7/29)

TOTAL
-665 Total Cases (+13 from 7/29)
-127 Active (-11 from 7/29)
-526 Recovered (+22 from 7/29)
-12 Deaths (+2 from 7/29)
-10 Hospitalizations (-2 from 7/29)

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 179 new COVID-19 cases and three new deaths in Washoe County since yesterday.

Total COVID-19 cases in Washoe County: 5,144 (+179 from 7/29)
Deaths: 113 (+2)
Estimated recoveries: 3,733 (+99)
Active cases: 1,298 (+78)
Currently hospitalized: 84 (-2)
Cases who have discharged from hospital: 363 (+2)

67 (+0) of the confirmed cases to date are in Incline Village with 11 (-2) 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, 47 (+1) in Kings Beach, six (+0) in Olympic Village, 15 (+0) in Truckee.

Their seven-day test rate is 8.5 percent positive, and 14-day case rate is 121.8 per 100,000. Seven-day increase is 17 percent, 14-day increase is 48 percent.

1,822 cases (+32) with 88 (+1) in the Lake Tahoe area
Hospitalized - 59 (-2) with 12 (-1) in ICU
Deaths - 15 (+0)
Negative test results - 36,033 (+388)
Likely recoveries - 1,453 (+58)

Nevada County

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

Confirmed cases - 293 (+5) with 150 (+2) in East County (Truckee area)
Likely recovered - 254 (+11)
Active Cases - 38 (-3)
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