Weekly wrap-up of COVID-19 cases around Lake Tahoe

COVID-19 case update for counties around Lake Tahoe: Daily for El Dorado County, and weekly wrap-up for Douglas, Washoe, and Placer counties.

EL DORADO COUNTY
There have been 39 new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths recorded since yesterday in El Dorado County.

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 898 cases - +2 - The 14-day new case rate is 32 with 236 per 100,000 residents.
El Dorado Hills - 3379 cases - +5 - The 14-day new case rate is 76 with 179 per 100,000 residents.
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 786 cases - +4 - The 14-day new case rate is 27 with 287 per 100,000 residents.
North County - 883 cases - +8 - The 14-day new case rate is 33 with 228 per 100,000 residents.
Greater Placerville - 2973 cases - +6 - The 14-day new case rate is 61 with 167 per 100,000 residents.
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 2872 cases - +5 - The 14-day new case rate is 83 with 235 per 100,000 residents.
South County - 238 cases - (-1) - The 14-day new case rate is 9 with 87 per 100,000 residents.
Lake Tahoe region - 3687 cases - +7 - The 14-day new case rate is 83 with 274 per 100,000 residents.
(3) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 133)

7 aged 0-17, 17 aged 18-49, 7 aged 50-64, 8 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 14)

The active case count is 758 - (-0), 1,662 additional negative test results, 28 assumed recoveries (15,091).

To date, 155 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were no new deaths reported today. This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

There are 8 (-2) hospitalized with 6 (+1) in the ICU. Of these patients, 4 are hospitalized at Marshall, 4 at Barton. Of the ICU patients, 4 are at Barton, 2 at Marshall in Placerville.

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 has said there are plenty of beds available even if the state's website doesn't show it.

Rates:
Adjusted case rate: 15.4 (+.8)
Positivity rate: 4.7% (-.1%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 6.2% (-.6%)

Vaccine measures:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 105,880 (54.8%) (+.1%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 115,971 (60.1%) (+.1%)

According to Statewide data from October 5, 2021 to October 11, 2021, unvaccinated people were 9.9 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

The following counts are based on El Dorado County Public Health COVID-19 case investigation findings:

Currently, El Dorado County Public Health prioritizes investigating cases less than 18 years of age, 65 years of age, and older and cases living or working in vulnerable settings (example: working in healthcare or living in an assisted living community). El Dorado County Public Health does not investigate every case of COVID-19. For this reason, El Dorado County Public Health is not able to confirm that a hospitalization history does or does not exist for every case.

These counts are grouped by episode date and only cases with a documented hospitalization history (yes, hospitalized or no, not hospitalized) are included in these counts. The running total provided below will be updated on the last Thursday of every month.

118 (77%) of the 153 documented hospitalizations that occurred in cases with episode dates between May 1, 2021 and October 28, 2021 were in individuals who were not fully vaccinated.

Deaths by Vaccination Status
According to Statewide data from September 28, 2021 to October 4, 2021, unvaccinated people were 15.0 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

- 10 out of the 155 confirmed COVID-19 deaths occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.
- 32 (76%) of the 42 COVID-19 confirmed deaths that have occurred and been confirmed between May 1, 2021 and the update on October 28, 2021 have occurred in individuals who were not fully vaccinated.

A death in a fully vaccinated individual is defined as a confirmed COVID-19 death that occurred in an individual who was considered to be a post-vaccination case at the time of death. A post-vaccination case is defined as a case that has received a positive molecular (eg. PCR) test for SARS-CoV-2 and whose episode date occurs 14 or more days after the date they completed their full one-dose or two-dose COVID-19 vaccination series.

COVID-related deaths are counted as soon as they are reported to and confirmed by El Dorado County Public Health. Because determining whether a death occurred in a fully vaccinated person takes time to verify and deaths in fully vaccinated people occur relatively rarely, these cases will be carefully verified then reported in batches (aggregated) rather than separately. This is to avoid the risk of inadvertently releasing identifiable personal health information. For the time being, this count will be updated approximately monthly, on the last Thursday of every month.

As of Tuesday, October 26, 2021:

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 22.8 per 100,000
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 6.5 per 100,000
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 1,136

To view the El Dorado County Dashboard, visit HERE.

QUAD COUNTIES

For the week of 10/21 - 10/27/2021 we are reporting 15 deaths, 238 new cases, and 175 additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. This brings the total number of cases to 19,983, with 15,367 recoveries and 333 deaths; 4,283 cases remain active.

Carson City (*Population: 56,546)
-8,759Total Cases (+91 from 10/20)
-1,388 Active (+30 from 10/20)
-7,214 Recovered (+57 from 10/20)
-157 Deaths (+4 from 10/20)

Douglas County (*Population: 49,695)
-4,604 Total (+39 from 10/20)
-1,006 Active (-15 from 10/20)
-3,541 Recovered (+50 from 10/20)
-57 Deaths (+4 from 10/20)

Lyon County (*Population: 57,987)
-6,416 Total (+105 from 10/20)
-1,1836 Active (+33 from 10/20)
-4,466 Recovered (+66 from 10/20)
-114 Deaths (+6 from 10/20)

Storey County (*Population: 4,465)
-204 Total (+3 from 10/20)
-53 Active (+0 from 10/20)
-146 Recoveries (+2 from 10/20)
-5 Deaths (+1 from 10/20)

TOTAL (*Population: 168,693)
-19,983 Total Cases (+238 from 10/20)
- 4,283 Active (+48 from 10/20)
-15,367 Recovered (+175 from 10/20)
-333 Deaths (+15 from 10/20)

*Population information taken from the Nevada Health Response Dashboard found at https://nvhealthresponse.nv.gov/

WASHOE COUNTY

(compared to last Friday)

Active Cases: 8,806 (-1,062)
Daily New Cases: 179 (+73)
Vaccinated Residents: 65.13% (+.51%)
Breakthrough Cases: 4,412 4,147 (+265)
Vaccinated Persons Testing Positive: 1.66% (+.9%)
Deaths to Date: 901 (+11)

PLACER COUNTY

Active Cases: 1,720 (+1,002)
Daily New Cases: 75.57 (+22.86)
Fully Vaccinated Residents: 234,809 (+ 1,821)
Breakthrough Cases: 3,075 (+168)
Deaths to Date: 415 (+19)