Today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data up to December 3rd.
State metrics:
- Under the state system for determining COVID-19 risk, San Diego County has Purple Tire or Tier 1. The state may use a more restrictive measure of case rate or assign tires in relation to what activities are allowed. Indoor operation at Restaurants, gyms, places of worship and movie theaters Currently not allowed.
- The county’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 15.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and is in Purple Tier or Tier 1 for that area metric.
- The test positivity percentage is 2.3%, placing it in Tier 3 or Orange tires for the metric.
- The county’s health equity metric, which sees the test positivity for areas with the lowest healthy conditions, is 10.6% and is in Purple Tier or Tier 1. This metric does not move the county to more restricted levels but is necessary to move forward. Less restricted level
- The California Department of Public Health announces tire assignments at least once a week.
Community setup eruption:
- Dec 1 A new community outbreak was confirmed: six in business settings, two in food / beverage processing settings, two in distribution warehouse settings, one in emergency services setting, one in government setting, one in trust setting and one in healthcare setting.
- On December 2, 12 new community outbreaks were confirmed: four in business settings, three in retail settings, one in daycare / preschool / childcare settings, one in TK – 12 school settings, one in emergency services setting, one in hotel / resort / spa and one In a college / university setting.
- In the last seven days (November 27 to December 3), 93 community outbreaks were confirmed.
- The number of community outbreaks is above seven or more triggers in seven days.
- Outbreaks of a community in the last 14 days are defined as three or more covid-19 cases and in different households.
Testing:
- The county reported 25,289 tests on Dec. 3, and the percentage of newly laboratory-confirmed cases was 8%.
- The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 6.7%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The 7-day, daily average tests are 18,695.
- People with high risk for Covid-19 and those without it should be examined. Health care and essential workers should also get a test, as well as people who have had close contact with a positive case or live in communities that are being severely affected. Those who have recently returned from a trip, or who attended a holiday gathering, are also requested to take the test.
Case:
- A record 2,039 cases have been confirmed among San Diego County residents as of Dec. 3. The total figure for this sector is now 88,181.
- 4,806 or 5.5% of all cases require hospitalization.
- Of all the cases, 1,061 or 1.2% and 22.5% of hospital admissions were admitted to the intensive care unit.
- a Covid-19 case rate mapShows how local cities and communities are being affected by the virus.
Mortality:
- Dec The county reported seven new deaths in December. The total number of this area is now 1,047.
- Four women and three men died between November 30 and December 3, and their ages ranged from the mid-20s to the early 100s.
- All had an underlying medical condition.
- On December 2, five new deaths were reported in the county.
- One woman and four men died between November 30 and December 2, and their age ranged from the early 70s to the early 90s.
- All had an underlying medical condition.
More info:
Found more detailed data summaries on County coronavirus-sd.com website Updated daily at 5 p.m.
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