COVID-19 cases for Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - There have been 73 new cases of COVID-19 in El Dorado County since yesterday. Due to the rising cases, Barton Memorial Hospital has reinstated its Incident Command to prepare for the increase in the number of people who need care in our community due to COVID-19. The Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) is an incident management system, which supports hospitals and healthcare organizations in their emergency management planning, response, and recovery capabilities for unplanned and planned events.

The 14-day case rates and number of the population per 100,000 residents are continuing to climb closer to data seen at the height of the pandemic in Winter 2020. It is already higher than last summer. At no time during the winter were all areas of El Dorado County in the red, or high spread, category.

While COVID-19 once seemed to target older people, community members and visitors of all ages are now being infected, including children too young to receive the vaccine, according to Barton Health. Similar to national trends, the majority of hospitalizations continue to be among those who are not vaccinated.

The new cases for El Dorado County:

12 in El Dorado Hills; 4 Diamond Springs, El Dorado; 9 in North County; 17 in Greater Placerville; 13 in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue; 1 South County; 21 in Lake Tahoe region; (-8) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 138)

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 609 cases - +4 - The 14-day new case rate is 32 with 236 per 100,000 residents.
El Dorado Hills - 2618 cases - +12 - The 14-day new case rate is 158 with 372 per 100,000 residents.
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 559 cases - +4 - The 14-day new case rate is 46 with 489 per 100,000 residents.
North County - 580 cases - +9 - The 14-day new case rate is 48 with 332 per 100,000 residents.
Greater Placerville - 2147 cases - +17 - The 14-day new case rate is 141 with 365 per 100,000 residents.
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 2056 cases - +13 - The 14-day new case rate is 125 with 3353 per 100,000 residents.
South County - 165 cases - +1 - The 14-day new case rate is 24 with 231 per 100,000 residents.
Lake Tahoe region - 3101 cases - +21 - The 14-day new case rate is 270 with 893 per 100,000 residents.
-8 awaiting address confirmation, total 138

11 aged 0-17, 32 aged 18-49, 20 aged 50-64, 10 aged 65+; 0 date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 13)

The active case count is 1197 - +79. 732 additional negative test results
- 42 assumed recoveries (10,76)

To date, 122 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were no news deaths today.

There are 16 (-1) hospitalized with 6 (+1) in the ICU. Of these patients, 13 are hospitalized at Marshall, 3 at Barton. Of the ICU patients, 3 are in Barton, 3 at Marshall in Placerville.

Barton Health want to reassure the community they have room in their ICU and at times the actual numbers and State's figures don't match up due to timing. Currently the State's website says there are 3 available ICU beds in the county, 2 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 1 at Marshall.

Barton Hospital is keeping all patients in negative pressure rooms in the ICU at this time, though only counting actual ICU patients in the figures above. They have more negative pressure ICU rooms should they be needed.

Rates:
Adjusted case rate: 26.4 (+2.3)
Positivity rate: 11.6% (+.4%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 15.7% (+.4%)

Vaccine measures:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 94,455 (48.9%) (+0.1%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 106,952 (55.4%) (+.1%)

To view the County's COVID-19 page, visit HERE.