San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 4/16/2021 | News

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

Progress vaccination:

  • More than 2.39 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been delivered in the region and nearly 2.23 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 784,000 residents of the county, or 29.2% of San Diegans ages 16 and older, have been fully immunized.
  • In all, more than 1.25 million residents of the county have received at least one injection of the two-dose vaccine. That’s 46.6% of those who qualify.
  • The goal is to vaccinate completely 75% of San Diego County residents 16 and older or 2,017,011 peopleTo date, 62.2% of the target population has received at least one vaccine and 38.9% has been fully vaccinated.
  • 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.

Status statistics:

  • 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.

Outbreaks in the community:

  • On April 15, three new outbreaks were confirmed in the community, one in a business, one in a home, and one in a restaurant / bar.
  • In the past seven days (April 9 to April 15), 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.

To test:

  • 18,038 tests were reported to the county on April 15, and the rate of new positive cases was 2%.
  • The moving average percentage of positive cases over 14 days is 1.8%. Target is less than 8.0%.
  • The 7-day, daily mean of tests is 13,144.

Case studies, hospital admissions and IC admissions:

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

Deaths:

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

More information:

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


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