Coronavirus, Covid 19, Solano County CA

COVID-19 in Solano County – 14 new cases over the weekend, 1855 tested

Monday, April 13: fourteen new cases no new deaths, total now 135 cases, 2 deaths:

Solano County Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Updates and Resources.  Check out basic information in this screenshot. IMPORTANT: The County’s interactive page has more.  On the County website, you can click on “Number of cases” and then hover over the charts for detailed information.

Last report (Friday, April 10):

Summary:

Solano County reported 14 NEW POSITIVE CASES over the weekend and today – total is now 135.  No new deaths in Solano County – still stands at 2.

Over the weekend:

    • 5 new cases were reported on Saturday 4/11
    • 4 new cases were reported on Sunday 4/12
    • 5 new cases were reported today, Monday 4/13

As of today:

    • 1 additional positive case was a young person under 19 years of age, total of 2.
    • 13 additional cases were persons 19-64 years of age, total of 106 cases, 79%, of the 135 total (no new deaths, total of 1).
    • No additional cases were persons 65 or older, total of 27 cases, 20% of the 135 total (including 1 death)

ACTIVE CASES:  Only 25 of the 135 are active cases. This is 8 fewer than previously reported on Friday, 4/10. On that day, 6 fewer than the previous day were classed as active.  Taken together would seem to be a dramatic reduction.  Good news!

HOSPITALIZATIONS: 36 of the cases have resulted in hospitalizations (2 more than previously reported on 4/10).

CITY DATA: Vallejo added 6 new cases, total of 50; Fairfield added 1 case, total of 34; and Vacaville added 3 new case, total of 24.  Smaller cities are still not assigned numerical data: all show <10 (less than 10).  NOTE that the county’s 3 major cities account for only 10 of today’s 13 new cases, so 3 of today’s new cases must have come from our four smaller cities or unincorporated areas.  Residents and city officials have been pressuring County officials for city case counts for many weeks.  Today’s data is welcome, but incomplete.

A new NUMBER OF RESIDENTS TESTED panel was added to today’s report.  1,855 residents have been tested as of today, approximately 4 tenths of 1% of Solano County’s population of 447,643 (2019).

The blue bars in the chart, “Daily number of cases on the date that specimens were collected” shows why the County is interpreting a flattening of the curve.  Note that the daily date in that chart refers to the date a sample was drawn and so reflects the lag time in testing.

 

Solano’s upward curve in cumulative cases – as of April 13

The chart above gives a clear picture of the infection’s trajectory in Solano County.  Our COVID-19 curve continues on its uphill climb!

Everyone stay home and be safe!

Climate emergency, Coronavirus, Covid 19, Keeping Watch on Earth News

Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like

Los Angeles Times, by Sammy Roth, March 30, 2020


Both the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are global crises with the power to derail economies and kill millions of people. Society has moved far more aggressively to address the coronavirus than it has the climate crisis. But some experts wonder if the unprecedented global mobilization to slow the pandemic might help pave the way for more dramatic climate action.

Leah Stokes, a political scientist at UC Santa Barbara, pointed out that aggressive steps to reduce planet warming emissions — such as investing in solar and wind power, switching to electric cars and requiring more efficient buildings — wouldn’t be nearly as disruptive to everyday life as the stay-at-home orders that have defined the novel coronavirus response.  [continued – view article in PDF format…]

Benicia CA, California, Coronavirus, Covid 19, Solano County CA, Stay-at-home

False reports that Gov. Newsom extended stay-at-home order through May 15

By Roger Straw, April 12, 2020

A number of news outlets are reporting that California Governor Gavin Newsom extended the coronavirus stay-at-home order through May 15.

But as of today, nothing on the Governor’s coronavirus page confirms the extension.  Nor do any reliable news sources confirm the extension.

The story seems to have arisen in connection with actions taken by several southern California jurisdictions which extended the order through May 15, including Los Angeles County and the City of Santa Clarita.

California’s statewide stay-at-home order, issued on March 19, remains in effect “until further notice.”

Here in Benicia, we are also under Solano County orders to stay at home.  Solano County’s current extension order was issued on March 30, and continues through April 30.  The City of Benicia declared an emergency on March 15, and has repeatedly issued guidelines supporting the County’s order.

Contra Costa County, Coronavirus, Covid 19, San Francisco Bay Area, Senior care, Solano County CA

Coronavirus: New Death At Orinda Nursing Home; Outbreak Worsens At Pleasant Hill Senior Center

[BenIndy Editor: I can find no reports of coronavirus infections in Solano County senior facilities.  Hope and pray for our elders in this pandemic!  – R.S.]

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KPIX5 CBS SF Bay Area, April 10, 2020

PLEASANT HILL (CBS SF) — Contra Costa health officials reported Friday another resident death amid a growing outbreak of coronavirus at two senior care facilities.

The county reported 21 people have been infected at Carlton Senior Living at 175 Cleaveland Road in downtown Pleasant Hill. Eight of those confirmed positive are residents and 13 are staff members, according to Contra Costa Health Services.

In addition, CCHS said a second person has died at Orinda Care Center, where earlier this week 50 people had tested positive for COVID-19.

CCHS said it was working closely with management of the senior living facilities to contain the spread of the virus.  The county said both CCHS and John Muir Health have provided infection control guidance as well as PPE supplies for residents and staff, and was working to offer COVID-19 testing.

As of Friday morning, county health officials reported 511 total cases of coronavirus in Contra Costa, including people who have recovered. There have been nine deaths in the county because of the illness.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday the state has identified seven sites with hundreds beds to take care of senior care residents who are forced from their current facilities, including the USNS Mercy hospital ship.

There are 1,224 major senior care facilities statewide; of those, 191 were being monitored by state health officials where there have been 1,266 individuals and staff members who have contracted the virus, Newsom said.

There are also 7,464 smaller care facilities statewide, Newsom said, where 94 are being monitored with outbreaks that have 370 residents and staffers ill with the coronavirus.

“You may consider those numbers and say that sounds relatively modest,” said Newsom of the numbers of infections in senior care facilities. “That doesn’t show the entire picture. There have been some appropriate headlines about certain areas of the state of  California and specific facilities that have become hot spots, where we have seen a disproportionate number of people contracting the disease and number of people tragically passing away. What we have done is … put in new guidelines that have been backed up by staff, what I would refer to as SWAT Teams, of infectious disease control professionals, working with the CDC and others, to saturate those areas of concern and focus.”

Newsom added the additional staff focusing on senior centers was working to “quickly identify those individuals, isolate, quarantine, and ultimately trace and track the pattern of the infection.”

“We are making calls in an unprecedented way,” said Newsom. “It’s not an exaggeration, 1,500 field offices every single day, calling every single nursing facility in the state.”

The governor also said “SWAT teams” of infectious disease specialists will be dispatched to the most serious outbreaks and deals had been made to temporary staffing agencies to fill in when a facilities caregivers are sidelined by positive coronavirus results.