Santa Clara County registered the most coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, as the state continues to weather a holiday wave that doesn’t seem to have peaked yet.
In addition to increased hospital bed capacity, Kaiser plans to deploy travel nurses to assist with higher-than-normal winter hospital admissions. days after reaching the mark of two million cases. Officials across the state say 52,309 new cases of the virus were registered Saturday for a total of 2,099,494, while 239 new deaths have brought the total to 24,221 deaths.
While public health officials in the Bay Area’s most populous county registered 2,212 new cases of the virus out of a total of 63,302 cases, Alameda County – number two by population – registered the second most cases since the start of the pandemic with 1,651 new cases. out of a total of 48,234.
The recent milestones serve as a grim reminder of the pandemic’s incessant attack on Bay Area residents as shipments of the new vaccine make their way to hard-hit hospitals.
Those hospitals are also facing extreme conditions, with many of them reporting a low number of IC beds. Kaiser Permanent announced on Saturday that it would postpone “elective and non-urgent operations and procedures” until Jan. 4 at its Northern California hospitals as hospital admissions soar.
Kaiser is short on staff and also plans to recruit travel nurses to help with the higher-than-normal hospital admissions in winter.
The Bay Area has registered 2,430 new cases so far so far, accounting for a total of 243,718 cases of the virus, while 15 more people died from the virus the day after Christmas, which equates to a total of 2,430 deaths from the coronavirus.
All the people killed in the Bay Area on Saturday were in the counties with the highest number of infections, with Alameda County counting six dead and Santa Clara County nine dead.
In Contra Costa province, officials reported 528 new coronavirus cases and no new deaths out of a total of 38,138 cases and 321 deaths. Although no one was recorded dead, county officials said 13 people died at Christmas.
In the four counties of North Bay – which includes Napa, Solano, Sonoma and Marin – officials reported 377 new cases of the virus and one new death. The area is soon nearing the milestone of 50,000 cases and 439 deaths.
San Francisco registered 266 new cases and no new deaths out of a total of 21,975 cases and 181 deaths. San Mateo County registered no new cases and no new deaths, and the number remains at 22,241 coronavirus cases and 212 virus-related deaths.