Weekly update on COVID-19 cases for counties 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 72 new cases of COVID-19 and one new death recorded since Wednesday in El Dorado County.

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 925 cases - +6 - The 14-day new case rate is 27 with 199 per 100,000 residents.
El Dorado Hills - 3459 cases - +27 - The 14-day new case rate is 79 with 186 per 100,000 residents.
Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 807 cases - +9 - The 14-day new case rate is 23 with 245 per 100,000 residents.
North County - 917 cases - +6 - The 14-day new case rate is 34 with 235 per 100,000 residents.
Greater Placerville - 3045 cases - +10 - The 14-day new case rate is 77 with 210 per 100,000 residents.
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 2944 cases - +11 - The 14-day new case rate is 72 with 204 per 100,000 residents.
South County - 242 cases - +3 - The 14-day new case rate is 5 with 48 per 100,000 residents.
Lake Tahoe region - 3734 cases - +5 - The 14-day new case rate is 55 with 182 per 100,000 residents.
(-5) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 139)

10 aged 0-17, 28 aged 18-49, 25 aged 50-64, 9 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 14)

The active case count is 704 - (+17). 55 assumed recoveries (15,508). 645 additional negative test results.

To date, 161 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There was one new death recorded today, a female, age 65+ from the Lake Tahoe Region. This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

There are 4 (-5) hospitalized with 0 (-1) in the ICU. There are no ICU patients.

Currently, the State's website says there are 4 available ICU beds in the county, 2 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 2 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: 12.3 (+0.1)
Positivity rate: 4.1% (-.1%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 4.0% (-.5%)

Vaccine measures:
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 107,233 (55.5%) (+.1%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 117,672 (60.9%) (+.2%)

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.

QUAD COUNTIES
For the week of 11/4 - 11/10/2021 we are reporting 22 deaths, 350 new cases, and 238 additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. This brings the total number of cases to 20,823, with 15,773 recoveries and 361 deaths; 4,689 cases remain active.

Carson City (*Population: 56,546)
-9,067 Total Cases (+111 from 11/3)
-1,548 Active (+38 from 11/3)
-7,355 Recovered (+68 from 11/3)
-164 Deaths (+5 from 11/3)

Douglas County (*Population: 49,695)
-4,843 Total (+109 from 11/3)
-1,140 Active (+47 from 11/3)
-3,638 Recovered (+54 from 11/3)
-65 Deaths (+8 from 11/3)

Lyon County (*Population: 57,987)
-6,701 Total (+128 from 11/3)
-1,945 Active (+7 from 11/3)
-4,629 Recovered (+112 from 11/3)
-127 Deaths (+9 from 11/3)

Storey County (*Population: 4,465)
-212 Total (+2 from 11/3)
-56 Active (-2 from 11/3)
-151 Recoveries (+4 from 11/3)
-5 Deaths (+0 from 11/3)

TOTAL (*Population: 168,693)
-20,823 Total Cases (+350 from 11/3)
- 4,689 Active (+90 from 11/3)
-15,773 Recovered (+238 from 11/3)
-361 Deaths (+22 from 11/3)

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

WASHOE COUNTY
(compared to last Friday)

Active Cases: 6,669 (-1,030)
Daily New Cases: 146 (-6)
Vaccinated Residents: 65.63% (+.11%)
Breakthrough Cases: 5,019 (+354)
Vaccinated Persons Testing Positive: 1.87% (+.13%)
Deaths to Date: 937 (+26)

PLACER COUNTY

Active Cases: 1,598 (-241)
Daily New Cases: 71.0 (-4.57)
Fully Vaccinated Residents: 237,647 (+ 1,426)
Breakthrough Cases: 3,254 (+179)
Deaths to Date: 444 (+7)