San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 10-15-2020 | News


Today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data as of October 14th.

State metrics:

  • Under the state monitoring metrics, San Diego County lives in Tier 2, also known as Red Tire.
  • San Diego’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is 6.8 per 100,000 residents, up from 6.5 in the previous assessment. The limit for Tier 2 is 7.0.
  • Below last week’s pos. %%, the test positivity percentage is%. %%, by placing it in a tire or orange tire.
  • The state’s health equity metric looks positive for testing for areas with the least healthy conditions. This does not move metric counties to more restricted levels but needs to move forward.
  • The county’s health equity test positivity percentage is 5..7, which is Oct Oct. Reported on.
  • The California Department of Public Health will evaluate the counties on a weekly basis, with the next report scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Community setup eruption:

  • New CTO. On the 14th 17 new community outbreaks were confirmed.
  • In the last seven days (Oct. 8 to Oct. Oct. 14), 47 community outbreaks were confirmed.
  • The number of community outbreaks is above seven or more triggers in seven days.
  • An outbreak of a community in the last 14 days is defined as three or more COVID-19 cases and in people from different households.

Testing:

  • 8,315 trials were reported in the county on Oct. 14, and the percentage of newly laboratory-confirmed cases was 2%.
  • The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 3.0%. The target is less than 8.0%.
  • The 7-day, daily average of tests is 10,100.
  • People with high risk for Covid-19 and those without it should be examined. Healthcare and essential workers should also get a test, as well as people who had close contact with a positive case or lived in communities that are being severely affected.

Case:

  • San Kto. On the 14th, 143 new cases were confirmed among San Diego County residents. The total number of this sector is now 51,470.
  • In 3,720 or 7.2% of cases, hospitalization is required by October 14.
  • 862 or 1.7% of all cases and 23.2% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to the intensive care unit.

Mortality:

  • Three new COVID-19 deaths were reported in San Diego County on October 14. The total number of this area is now 847.
  • One woman and two men Oct Kto. 2 to 14 Oct. Died in between, and his age is from the early 70’s to the late 80’s.
  • All had an underlying medical condition.

More info:

Found a more detailed data summary on County coronavirus-sd.com website Will be updating this evening around 5 p.m.


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