San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 4/15/2021

Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through April 14.

Nearly 2.36 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been delivered in the region and nearly 2.19 million have been recorded as administered. This number includes county residents as well as those who work in San Diego County.
Of those vaccinated so far, more than 768,000 residents of the county, or 28.6% of San Diegans ages 16 and older, have been fully vaccinated.
In total, more than 1.23 million residents of the county have received at least one injection of the two-dose vaccine. That’s 45.9% of those who qualify.
The goal is to vaccinate completely 75% of San Diego County residents 16 and older or 2,017,011 people
Those who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, currently on hold in the County as a result of guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration, are added to the total of fully vaccinated San Diegans.
The difference between the doses administered and the doses used in a vaccination roughly represents what is expected to be administered in the next seven days and the doses still to be entered into the registration system.
More information on vaccine distribution can be found at the counties vaccination dashboardVisit for vaccination options www.vaccinatiesuperstation.com.

The state-calculated, adjusted number of San Diego County cases is currently 6.0 cases per 100,000 residents (as of April 13).
The County remains in the Orange Tier or Tier 3 under the new state guidelines. The California Department of Public Health recently announced that unless there are extenuating circumstances, such as a slow vaccination rate, a county will move to a more restrictive level only if the number of hospitalizations increases significantly among vulnerable individuals, especially vaccinated individuals, and both test positivity and adjusted case rates show a worrying increase in transmission. This is currently not the case in the region.
Currently, the test positivity rate is 2.5%, placing the County in Tier 3 or the Orange Tier.
The County’s health equity measure, which looks at the test positivity for areas with the lowest healthy conditions, is 3.0% and is also in the Orange Tier or Tier 3.
CDPH reviews counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20.

On April 14, three new outbreaks were confirmed in the community, all in restaurants / bars.
In the past seven days (April 8 to April 14), 17 outbreaks were confirmed in the community.
The number of outbreaks in the community remains above the trigger of seven or more in seven days.
A community outbreak is defined as three or more COVID-19 cases in an environment and in people from different households in the past 14 days.

On April 14, 17,942 tests were reported to the County, and the rate of new positive cases was 2%.
The moving average percentage of positive cases over 14 days is 1.9%. Target is less than 8.0%.
The 7-day, daily average of tests is 13,023.

281 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on April 14. The total of the region is now 274,249.
15,047 or 5.5% of all cases required hospitalization.
1,667 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Five additional COVID-19 deaths were reported on April 14. The total of the region is 3,653.
All of these deaths occurred several months ago, but were just added to the list after an in-depth review of death certificates that were inaccurate or incomplete and required the analysis of the patients’ medical records to determine whether they were COVID-19. deaths.
Three women and two men died between December 19, 2020 and February 16, 2021.
Of those who died, three were 80 or older and two were in their 60s.
Four had underlying medical conditions and one did not.

The more detailed data summaries on the The county coronavirus-sd.com website are updated daily around 5pm.

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