San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 4-16-2021

Here’s today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through April 15th.

More than 2.39 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been delivered in the region, and nearly 2.23 million have been recorded as administered. This number includes residents of the state as well as those who work in San Diego County.
Of those vaccinated so far, more than 784,000 residents of the province, or 29.2% of San Diegans 16 and older, have been fully vaccinated.
Overall, more than 1.25 million residents in the province received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine. This is 46.6% of those who are eligible.
The goal is to vaccinate fully 75% of San Diego County residents, 16 years and older, or 2,017,011 people. To date, 62.2% of the target population have received at least one vaccine and 38.9% have been fully vaccinated.
Those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine which is currently suspended in the province as a result of the leadership of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, the total fully vaccinated San Diegans is added.
The difference between doses delivered and those used in a vaccination represents approximately what is expected to be administered in the next seven days and doses yet to be recorded in the record system.
More information on the distribution of vaccines can be found at the County’s vaccination dashboard. For vaccination opportunities, visit www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.

San Diego County’s calculated, adjusted rate is currently 6.0 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (as of April 13).
The county remains in the Orange Tier or Tier 3 under the new leadership of the state. The California Department of Public Health recently advised that unless there are mitigating conditions, such as the low level of vaccine intake, a country will only move to a more limited level if hospitalizations increase significantly among vulnerable individuals, especially among vaccinated individuals, and both are tested. positivity and adjusted cases show a worrying increase in transfer. This is currently not the case in the region.
Currently, the test positivity percentage is 2.5%, which places the county in level 3 or the orange level.
The county’s health equity measure, which looks at the positive testing for areas with the lowest health conditions, is 3.0% and is also in the Orange Tier or Tier 3.
CDPH reviews provinces weekly. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20th.

Three new community outbreaks were confirmed on April 15, one in a business, one in a residence and one in a restaurant / bar area.
In the last seven days (April 9 to 15), 17 community outbreaks have been confirmed.
The number of community outbreaks remains within seven days above the trigger of seven or more.
An outbreak in a community over the past 14 days is defined as three or more COVID-19 cases in an area and in people from different households.

18,038 tests were reported to the province on April 15, and the percentage of new positive cases was 2%.
The running average percentage of positive cases of 14 days is 1.8%. The target is less than 8.0%.
The daily average of 7 days is 13,144.

317 COVID-19 cases were reported in the province on 15 April. The total of the region is now 274,566.
15 104 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
1 673 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of the hospital cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Nine additional deaths from COVID-19 were reported on April 15. The total of the region is 3,662.
Most of these deaths have occurred in the last few months (one in December, four in January, one in February, one in March and two in April), but have just been added to the list after a careful review of incorrect or incomplete death certificates. . and the analysis of the patients’ medical records required to determine if it was COVID-19 deaths.
Four women and five men died between 29 December 2020 and 14 April 2021.
Of the people who died, four were 80 years or older, two were in their 70s, one was in their 60s, one was in their 50s and one person was in their 40s.
All had underlying medical conditions.

The more detailed summaries of the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website is updated daily around 5pm.

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