COVID-19 cases for South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County

There have been 35 new cases of COVID-19 and two new deaths recorded since yesterday in El Dorado County. All other counties around Lake Tahoe are updated weekly on Fridays. This brings the total of COVID-19 cases in the county to 16,653.

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 949 cases - +1 - The 14-day new case rate is 16 with 118 per 100,000 residents.
El Dorado Hills - 3552 cases - +4 - The 14-day new case rate is 68 with 160 per 100,000 residents.

Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 831 cases - +3 - The 14-day new case rate is 14 with 149 per 100,000 residents.
North County - 958 cases - +0 - The 14-day new case rate is 20 with 138 per 100,000 residents.
Greater Placerville - 3117 cases - +12 - The 14-day new case rate is 52 with 142 per 100,000 residents.
Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue - 3027 cases - +7 - The 14-day new case rate is 65 with 184 per 100,000 residents.
South County - 255 cases - +1 - The 14-day new case rate is 7 with 67 per 100,000 residents.
Lake Tahoe region - 3833 cases - +8 - The 14-day new case rate is 72 with 238 per 100,000 residents.
(-1) awaiting address confirmation (total awaiting address confirmation is 131)

2 aged 0-17, 20 aged 18-49, 11 aged 50-64, 2 aged 65+; (0) date of birth unknown (total date of birth unknown is 14)

The active case count is 646 - (+10). 1,038 additional negative tests. 25 assumed recoveries (16,007)

To date, 171 El Dorado County residents have died from COVID-19. There were two new deaths recorded today. This count does not include deaths still under investigation.

The new deaths:
Female, 65+ from Greater Placerville
Male, 50+64 from El Dorado Hills

There are 4 (-0) hospitalized with 3 (-2) in the ICU in El Dorado County. Barton Hospital has 3 of the hospitalized patients, Marshall Hospital has 1. Barton has an ICU patient. There is one suspected case of COVID in Barton.

Currently, the State's website says there are 4 available ICU beds in the county, 0 at Barton Health in South Lake Tahoe, 4 at Marshall in Placerville. Barton has said there are plenty of beds available even if the state's website doesn't show it.

Rates:
Adjusted case rate: 9.8 (-1.8)
Positivity rate: 4.1% (+.3%)
Health equity quartile positivity rate: 6.3% (+1.3%)

Vaccine measures (based on county population, eligible and not eligible):
Cumulative fully vaccinated: 108,934 (56.4%) (+0.1%)
Cumulative with at least one dose: 120,673 (62.5%) (+0.1%)

According to Statewide data from October 31, 2021 to November 6, 2021, unvaccinated people were 13.1 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.

149 (77%) of the 193 documented hospitalizations that occurred in cases with episode dates between May 1, 2021 and November 24, 2021 were in individuals who were not fully vaccinated.

Deaths by Vaccination Status

According to Statewide data from October 24, 2021 to October 30, 2021, unvaccinated people were 15.8 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people.

15 out of the 169 confirmed COVID-19 deaths occurred in fully vaccinated individuals.
42 (74%) of the 57 COVID-19 confirmed deaths that have occurred and been confirmed between May 1, 2021 and the update on November 24, 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 30, 2021:
7-day average daily case rate among El Dorado County residents who are not fully vaccinated: 15.6 per 100,000 (down 2.3)
7-day average daily case rate among fully vaccinated residents in El Dorado County: 4.0 per 100,000 (down 2.1)
Estimated number of post-vaccination cases to date: 1,393 (+44)

To view the El Dorado County Dashboard, visit HERE.