COVID-19 case update for South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - There have been 31 new cases of COVID-19 since yesterday, and three new deaths were recorded in El Dorado County. All other counties around Lake Tahoe are updated on Fridays only.

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 918 cases - +0 - The 14-day new case rate is 29 with 214 per 100,000 residents.
El Dorado Hills - 3434 cases - +7 - The 14-day new case rate is 69 with 162 per 100,000 residents.

Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 798 cases - +1 - The 14-day new case rate is 22 with 234 per 100,000 residents.
North County - 911 cases - +2 - The 14-day new case rate is 40 with 276 per 100,000 residents.
Greater Placerville - 3032 cases - +1 - The 14-day new case rate is 74 with 202 per 100,000 residents.
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 2930 cases - +4 - The 14-day new case rate is 75 with 212 per 100,000 residents.
South County - 240 cases - +0 - The 14-day new case rate is 4 with 39 per 100,000 residents.
Lake Tahoe region - 3731 cases - +2 - The 14-day new case rate is 62 with 205 per 100,000 residents.
(17) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 138)

7 aged 0-17, 13 aged 18-49, 5 aged 50-64, 6 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 14)

The active case count is 715 - (-25). 56 assumed recoveries (15,431)

Because the CDPH source used for the number of negative test results, adjusted case rate, testing positivity, and health equity was not updated again today, these measures are not updated in today's count.

To date, 160 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were three new deaths reported today:

Female, 65+ from Lake Tahoe Region
Female, 65+ from El Dorado Hills
Female 50-64 from Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz

This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

There are 10 (-0) hospitalized with 1 (-2) in the ICU. Of these patients, 5 are hospitalized at Marshall, 5 at Barton. Of the ICU patients, 1 is at Barton, 0 at Marshall in Placerville.

Currently, the State's website says there are 5 available ICU beds in the county, 1 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 4 at Marshall. Barton has said there are plenty of beds available even if the state's website doesn't show it.

Rates (no updates today):
Adjusted case rate: 13.5
Positivity rate: 4.4%
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 5.5%

Vaccine measures:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 106,880 (55.4%) (+.1%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 116,972 (60.6%) (+.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, November 9, 2021:

7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 17.7 per 100,000
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 4.6 per 100,000
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 1,245

To view the El Dorado County Dashboard, visit HERE.