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Summer surge hitting Solano County hospitals, test positivity far surpassing US and CA rates

By Roger Straw, Monday, July 26, 2021

Solano County on Monday, July 26: 289 new COVID infections over the weekend.  Hospitalizations up dramatically.  Test positivity nears 17%!

Solano County COVID dashboard SUMMARY:
[Sources: see below.  See also my ARCHIVE spreadsheet of daily Solano COVID updates.]

Solano County reported no new deaths today.  The County total is now 245 deaths since the pandemic began.  But the County reported  289 new COVID cases over the weekend, 96 per day!  Solano is clearly experiencing a “summer surge” in cases.

TREND: Cases-per-day dramatically up in July

Cases-per-day were trending downward in recent months, but are now rising sharply, especially over the last week:

Solano’s 451 ACTIVE cases is down from Friday’s remarkable high of 647, but still higher than anything since February 19, 2021.  Active cases have risen alarmingly in just two weeks, up from 289 cases on July 12.

Test Rate INCREDIBLY HIGH – compare with US & CA

Our 7-day average percent positivity rate was up alarmingly again today from a shocking 14.9% on Friday to an even more surprising 16.8% today, the County’s highest rate since January 29, 2021.  We would be decidedly back in the PURPLE TIER with rates this high.  COMPARE: The US 7-day % positive rate today is at 5.3%, and the California rate is 3.8%. [Source: Johns Hopkins]

Hospitalizations – fewer ICU Beds and Ventilators available

CURRENT hospitalizations jumped today from 33 to 45 persons CURRENTLY hospitalized with COVID.   ICU beds available fell dramatically today from 50% to only 32%. And the County reported fewer ventilators available today, down from 80 to 69.  These numbers confirm the spike in hospitalizations, see below…

The County updates the intake/discharge total of CURRENTLY hospitalized cases with every report, but never reports on the cumulative total of hospitalized COVID patients over the course of the pandemic.  That total must be independently discovered in the County’s occasional update of the Hospitalizations by Age Group chart which was not updated today, and now shows a total of 1,309 persons hospitalized since the beginning of the outbreak, in the following age groups:

Age Group Hospitalizations % of Total
0-17 27 2%
18-49 327 25%
50-64 342 26%
65+ 613 47%
TOTAL 1,309 100%

Hospitalizations are also recorded on the County’s demographic chart labeled “Hospitalizations by Race / Ethnicity.”  The chart was not updated today.  Here are the current numbers.  Interestingly, the total doesn’t square with totals by age groups.

Race / Ethnicity Hospitalizations % of Total
Asians 184 15%
Black / African American 200 16%
Hispanic / Latinx 327 27%
White 406 34%
Multirace / Others 86 7%
TOTAL 1,203 99%
SUMMER SURGE – Masks, Social Distancing & Vaccination

COVID is clearly circulating again and surging in Solano County!  Some California counties are returning to mandatory masks for all in crowded places, and today the State of California issued a policy for state employees and health care workers, requiring them to either get vaccinated or be tested weekly for the virus.  In the Bay Area, Solano County is the only holdout against even RECOMMENDING masks in public indoors spaces.  My personal plan is to mask indoors in public even though I’m vaccinated, and I’d recommend it for you, too.  This thing ain’t over yet!

Cases by City on Monday, July 26:
  • Benicia added 8 new cases today, a total of 1,092 cases since the outbreak began, 4.0% of its population of 27,570.
  • Dixon added 7 new case today, total of 1,997 cases, 10.1% of its population of 19,794.
  • Fairfield added 74 new cases today, total of 9,560 cases, 8.2% of its population of 117,149.
  • Rio Vista added 4 new cases today, total of 421 cases, 4.5% of its population of 9,416.
  • Suisun City added 38 new cases today, total of 2,487 cases, 8.4% of its population of 29,447.
  • Vacaville added 82 new cases today, a total of 9,341 cases, 9.5% its of population of 98,807.
  • Vallejo added 76 new cases today, a total of 10,476 cases, 8.8% of its population of 119,544.
  • Unincorporated remained steady today, a total of 108 cases (population figures not available).

COMPARE: From the most recent report on Solano County’s COVID Dashboard, Friday, July 23:

The data on this page is from today’s and the previous Solano County COVID-19 Dashboard.  The Dashboard is full of much more information and updated weekdays around 4 or 5pm.  On the County’s dashboard, you can hover a mouse or click on an item for more information.  Note the tabs at top for “Summary, Demographics” and “Vaccines.”  Click here to go to today’s Solano County Dashboard.

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Vaccination rate in Solano County? Dead last among Bay Area and nearby counties.

By Roger Straw, July 24, 2021

What is our vaccination rate and how do we compare with other California counties?

The numbers are always changing, of course.  And Solano County doesn’t report it on  their COVID Dashboard.  So I went digging.  Pretty interesting…

Los Angeles Times – Tracking coronavirus vaccinations in California

I went to latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/covid-19-vaccines-distribution/#county-comparison and scrolled down a bit to Vaccinations by county.

There you will see that as of 9:23am on July 24, among all Californians, 52.7% are fully vaccinated, meaning they have either received both shots of a two-dose regime from Pfizer or Moderna, or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Solano County had administered 458,724 doses of vaccine.  58.4% of county residents had received at least one dose, but only 48.8% were fully vaccinated.

Our fully vaccinated rate of 48.8% puts us right around average, ranking 27th among California’s 58 counties.  Our one-dose measure ranks us a little better, 22nd out of 58 counties.

It’s interesting to compare Solano to our Bay Area neighbors: among the fully vaccinated, Solano ranks dead last among our 9 Bay Area and nearby neighbor counties.

Rank County Doses administered At least 1 dose Fully vaccinated
1 Marin 381,136 78.20% 72.20%
2 San Francisco 1,221,452 76.10% 69.60%
3 Santa Clara 2,655,770 74.50% 68.30%
4 San Mateo 1,045,079 73.80% 67.10%
5 Contra Costa 1,484,380 69.90% 65.10%
6 Alameda 2,127,975 70.80% 64.80%
7 Napa 178,871 69.50% 61.10%
8 Sonoma 621,710 67.00% 60.40%
9 Santa Cruz 328,312 65.50% 57.00%
10 Yolo 245,168 62.00% 55.10%
11 Sacramento 1,564,963 56.20% 50.00%
12 Solano 458,724 58.40% 48.80%

Only Sacramento County has fewer residents who have received only 1 dose.

And… vaccination rates by Solano cities and zip codes – Benicia at 80%!

I tracked down Benicia’s vaccination rate on the State of California’s Open Data Portal.  It’s complicated, and I can’t for the life of me figure out how I got there, but here’s the page you want: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/ca.open.data/viz/LHJVaccineEquityPerformance/MapView.  This will open a map showing the instruction, “Click anywhere to load an interactive data experience.”  You click on the map and another map that looks identical opens.  But this map is interactive – click the + (plus sign) 2 or 3 times to enlarge the map, and then you can hover your mouse over our Solano cities and zips for detailed information.  Here’s what I found hovering over Benicia (click the image to enlarge).

In Benicia, zip code 94510, we have a vaccination rate among the 24,819 of us who are 12 years and older… of 80%!

You can explore the map to see your city’s zip code.  But I’ll save you a trip – here are the Solano cities/zips I was able to find AS OF TODAY.  Note that these numbers are all higher than the LA Times numbers above.  I suspect that is because this data calculates a percentage based on residents 12+ while the LA Times most likely uses total population.

Solano County zip code 12+ Population Share of population vaccinated
Benicia 94510 24,819 80%
Vallejo 94589 26,451 74%
Vallejo 94590 31,869 70%
Vallejo 94591 48,466 71%
Vallejo / Mare Island 94592 830 86%
Vallejo all zips 107,616 75%
Suisun City 94585 24,994 62%
Green Valley/Ffield 94534 33,547 80%
Fairfield 94533 62,858 61%
Travis AFB 94535 2,546 18%
Vacaville 95687 59,036 52%
Vacaville 95688 31,725 64%
Elmira 95625 74 100%
Dixon 95620 18,303 64%
Rio Vista 94571 10,004 71%

Something is surely off about the Travis numbers.  Is the Air Base not reporting?

Interesting that EVERYONE in Elmira is vaccinated!

Benicia CA, Coronavirus, Covid 19, Delta variant, Hospitalizations, Solano County CA, Solano County Health Department, Vaccine

Solano sees over 300 new infections in last 2 days, test positivity skyrockets to 14.9%

By Roger Straw, Friday, July 23, 2021

Solano County on Friday, July 23: 308 new COVID infections in just 2 days!  One new hospitalization.  Test positivity nears 15%!

Solano County COVID dashboard SUMMARY:
[Sources: see below.  See also my ARCHIVE spreadsheet of daily Solano COVID updates.]

Solano County reported  304 new COVID cases since Wednesday’s report, 152 per day over the 2 days!  We’ve not seen a daily increase this high since Feb. 5, 2021.

TREND: Cases-per-day dramatically up in July

Cases-per-day have trended gradually downward in recent months, but are now rising sharply:

Solano’s 647 ACTIVE cases is dramatically up from Wednesday’s 451, and higher than anything since February 11, 2021.  Active cases have risen alarmingly in just two weeks, up from 289 cases on July 12.

Our percent positivity rate was up alarmingly today from a very high 12.2% on Wednesday to a shocking 14.9% today, the County’s highest rate since January 29, 2021.  We would be decidedly back in the PURPLE TIER with rates this high.  ICU Beds Available rose by 4% today to 50%. The County reported more ventilators available today, up from 77 to 80.

Solano County reported no new deaths today.  The County total is now 245 deaths since the pandemic began.

SUMMER SURGE – Masks and Social Distancing

COVID is clearly circulating again and surging in Solano County!  Some California counties are returning to mandatory masks for all in crowded places.  In the Bay Area, Solano County is the only holdout against even RECOMMENDING masks in public indoors spaces. My personal plan is to mask indoors in public even though I’m vaccinated, and I’d recommend it for you, too.  This thing ain’t over yet!

Hospitalizations on Friday, July 23:

CURRENT hospitalizations remained steady today at 33 persons CURRENTLY hospitalized with COVID.  However, in today’s “Hospitalizations by Age Group” chart, the County reported 1 new hospitalization, a Black / African American person age 50-64.  These charts are only updated “occasionally” according to our Public Health officer, Dr. Bela Matyas.  The County updates the intake/discharge total of CURRENTLY hospitalized cases with every report, but never reports on the cumulative total of hospitalized COVID patients over the course of the pandemic.  That total must be independently discovered in the County’s occasional update on the Hospitalizations by Age Group chart.  As mentioned, that chart was updated today and so I can now report a new total of 1,309 persons hospitalized since the beginning of the outbreak, in the following age groups:

Age Group Hospitalizations % of Total
0-17 27 2%
18-49 327 25%
50-64 342 26%
65+ 613 47%
TOTAL 1,309 100%

Hospitalizations are also recorded on the County’s demographic chart labeled “Hospitalizations by Race / Ethnicity.”  The chart was updated today, adding a Black / African American person.  Here are the current numbers.  Interestingly, the total doesn’t square with totals by age groups.

Race / Ethnicity Hospitalizations % of Total
Asians 184 15%
Black / African American 200 16%
Hispanic / Latinx 327 27%
White 406 34%
Multirace / Others 86 7%
TOTAL 1,203 99%
Cases by City on Friday, July 23:
  • Benicia added 14 new cases today, a total of 1,084 cases since the outbreak began, 3.9% of its population of 27,570.
  • Dixon added 14 new case today, total of 1,990 cases, 10.1% of its population of 19,794.
  • Fairfield added 74 new cases today, total of 9,486 cases, 8.1% of its population of 117,149.
  • Rio Vista added 4 new cases today, total of 417 cases, 4.4% of its population of 9,416.
  • Suisun City added 30 new cases today, total of 2,449 cases, 8.3% of its population of 29,447.
  • Vacaville added 82 new cases today, a total of 9,259 cases, 9.4% its of population of 98,807.
  • Vallejo added 89 new cases today, a total of 10,400 cases, 8.7% of its population of 119,544.
  • Unincorporated areas added 1 new case today, a total of 108 cases (population figures not available).

COMPARE: From the most recent report on Solano County’s COVID Dashboard, Wednesday, July 21:

The data on this page is from today’s and the previous Solano County COVID-19 Dashboard.  The Dashboard is full of much more information and updated weekdays around 4 or 5pm.  On the County’s dashboard, you can hover a mouse or click on an item for more information.  Note the tabs at top for “Summary, Demographics” and “Vaccines.”  Click here to go to today’s Solano County Dashboard.

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Solano County reports 14 more COVID hospitalizations, new case rate remains high

By Roger Straw, Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Solano County on Wednesday July 21: 124 new COVID infections over last 2 days.  Current hospitalizations nearly double.

See: All about the DELTA VARIANT.  Also, People with mild COVID can have long-term health problems.  And: “More than 70% of COVID-19 patients studied report having at least one “long haul” symptom that lasts for months.”  It’s not over yet!  Please encourage everyone to get vaccinated!

Solano County COVID dashboard SUMMARY:
[Sources: see below.  See also my ARCHIVE spreadsheet of daily Solano COVID updates.]

Solano County reported  124 new COVID cases since Monday’s report, 62 per day over the 2 days!  Note the cases-per-day TREND in recent months, downward and now rising:

Solano’s 451 ACTIVE cases today is up from Monday’s 408, and higher than anything since February 19, 2021.  Active cases have risen dramatically in one week, up from last Monday’s 289 cases.

Our percent positivity rate was up again today from 11.9% on Monday to 12.2% today.  We would be back in the PURPLE TIER with rates this high.  ICU Beds Available rose by 8% today to 46%. The County reported fewer ventilators available today, down from 79 to 77.

COVID is definitely still out there and surging!  Some California counties are returning to mandatory masks for all in crowded places – that’s my personal plan even though I’m vaccinated, and I’d recommend it for you, too.

Solano County reported no new deaths today.  The County total is now 245 deaths since the pandemic began.

Hospitalizations on Wednesday July 21:

CURRENT hospitalizations took a big jump today, from Monday’s 19 to today’s 33 persons currently hospitalized with COVID.  This increase was NOT reflected in today’s “Hospitalizations by Age Group” chart, which remained unchanged since Monday.  That chart is only updated “occasionally” according to our Public Health officer, Dr. Bela Matyas.  The County updates the intake/discharge total of CURRENTLY hospitalized cases with every report, but never reports on the cumulative total of hospitalized COVID patients over the course of the pandemic.  That total must be independently discovered in the County’s occasional update on the Hospitalizations by Age Group chart.  As mentioned, that chart was not updated today and remains at a total of 1,308 persons hospitalized since the beginning of the outbreak, in the following age groups:

Age Group Hospitalizations % of Total
0-17 27 2%
18-49 327 25%
50-64 341 26%
65+ 613 47%
TOTAL 1,308 100%

Hospitalizations are also recorded on the County’s demographic chart labeled “Hospitalizations by Race / Ethnicity.”  The chart was not updated today.  Here are the current numbers.  Interestingly, the total doesn’t square with totals by age groups.

Race / Ethnicity Hospitalizations % of Total
Asians 184 15%
Black / African American 199 16%
Hispanic / Latinx 327 27%
White 406 34%
Multirace / Others 86 7%
TOTAL 1,202 99%
Cases by City on Wednesday July 21:
  • Benicia added 8 new cases today, a total of 1,070 cases since the outbreak began, 3.9% of its population of 27,570.
  • Dixon added 3 new case today, total of 1,976 cases, 10.0% of its population of 19,794.
  • Fairfield added 24 new cases today, total of 9,412 cases, 8.0% of its population of 117,149.
  • Rio Vista added 1 new case today, total of 413 cases, 4.4% of its population of 9,416.
  • Suisun City added 11 new cases today, total of 2,419 cases, 8.2% of its population of 29,447.
  • Vacaville added 32 new cases today, a total of 9,177 cases, 9.3% its of population of 98,807.
  • Vallejo added 44 new cases today, a total of 10,311 cases, 8.6% of its population of 119,544.
  • Unincorporated areas added 1 new case today, a total of 107 cases (population figures not available).

COMPARE: From the most recent report on Solano County’s COVID Dashboard, Monday, July 19:

The data on this page is from today’s and the previous Solano County COVID-19 Dashboard.  The Dashboard is full of much more information and updated weekdays around 4 or 5pm.  On the County’s dashboard, you can hover a mouse or click on an item for more information.  Note the tabs at top for “Summary, Demographics” and “Vaccines.”  Click here to go to today’s Solano County Dashboard.

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