Contra Costa County is reporting 5 new cases of coronavirus today, which means the number of confirmed cases in the county is now 34.
There is one additional case being treated in the county from another jurisdiction, according to officials.
Nobody has died from the coronavirus in Contra Costa County, according to the health department.
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I wonder how many of these are from the Princess Cruise liner.
FYI, today (3/16/2020, TJ’s is only allowing 50 people into the store at a time and only limiting purchase of 2-items per person. Shelves are still empty.
Which Trader Joe’s?
TJ’s at Treat & Oakgrove Rd.
Unlike other counties CCC won’t say where in the county the cases are coming from. I think it is important for people to know.
For Contra Costa County
https://cchealth.org/coronavirus/pdf/HO-COVID19-SIP-0316-2020.pdf
6 months ago I moved to Grants Pass and so far there are no cases here
(knock on wood). The closest cases are in Medford (20 miles from here),
2 travel related and they are self quarantined in their home……………..
Good for you! I’ve always loved the beauty in the Grants Pass area. Best wishes staying healthy! 🙂
34 cases in CCC.
1.2 million people in CCC.
Yea, time to panic.
Come on! Sure it is! It is up to 0.00003% of our population is infected. That is a mind boggling number and we must stop it by all means necessary! That percentage is matched when compared to the 7.8 billion people and 168,000 known cases. Still a 0.00003% infection rate.
If we multiple the infected rate by a factor of 10, it is still a 0.0003% infection rate.
But yes, we must panic! We must have mass hysteria. We must stock on toilet paper, tissue and paper towels. We must lock ourselves in our homes for 3 weeks because that will make it all better.
Out of curiosity … ever look up the infection rate of
Influenza (9% of the worlds population), though you may not count that one because the mortality rate is less than COVID-19.
SARS (15% mortality rate)?
H1N1 (24% of the world’s population! the death rate was 0.02%)?
And those are just people who have been tested. Some cant get tested with symptoms. They are keeping the testing to limited people so Infection rate doesnt look higher, but people are at home with it but dont know it. It’s much higher than stated because not everyone is tested who shows symptoms.
KNOWN cases. They could be more.
1,145,000 people in Contra Costa County and only 34 confirmed cases.
World wide there are 7.8 billion people and only 168,000 known cases and 6,610 deaths.
Stop the hype.
34 out of over a million and a half people that live in Co. Co. County? The odds are in the favor of not catching anything. It’s just a bunch of media hype to get the population to panic and obey. According to the CDC the number of cases is on the decline.
To correctly calculate the rate you need to know where these cases occurred and the population of those towns or cities. If we are talking concord w a population of approximately 130,000 would mean an infection rate of approximately .03 % But if you take the population of Clyde for example (678) you are talking an infection rate of 5.02%, A huge difference… especially if you live in Clyde!!
I don’t understand why Trader Joe’s. Their food has less preservatives and is widely known to last the least amount of time on the shelf before going bad. Often in a few days including bread and produce in buy from there
That’s because the food is already old when it arrives at the store.
168000 ÷ 6610= 25.41
For every 25.41 people that get it ,1 dies.
This isn’t something to be taken lightly imo.
They are most likely recording a massively disproportionate number of fatal cases, since they are not finding the many, many mild or asymptomatic cases. I’m not taking it lightly, but it’s very unlikely that anything close to 1 in 25 people who get this are going to die.
BS most people 80% may not even know they have it. They don’t get tested and they don’t get sick. The only ones that are dying are 80 yrs old plus. They also die from the flu because they have a lot of other serious medical diseases.
The death rate is much lower.
This is something else, like crash the Trump economy into the ground and blame the virus on Trump. So Alzheimer patient Biden can be installed. Don’t trust China they want Trump gone too so they can rule the world “One Road, One Belt” which Italy is a part of and Italian politicians were where the Russiagate Frame up job was hatched.
How about that oldie home in Seattle? Someone is culling in there or they are lying about it.
Just goes to show how potentially deadly it can be to warehouse the elderly like that.
The next couple weeks will show us where this is headed …
Come on! Sure it is! It is up to 0.00003% of our population is infected. That is a mind boggling number and we must stop it by all means necessary! That percentage is matched when compared to the 7.8 billion people and 168,000 known cases. Still a 0.00003% infection rate.
If we multiple the infected rate by a factor of 10, it is still a 0.0003% infection rate.
But yes, we must panic! We must have mass hysteria. We must stock on toilet paper, tissue and paper towels. We must lock ourselves in our homes for 3 weeks because that will make it all better.
Out of curiosity … ever look up the infection rate of
Influenza (9% of the worlds population), though you may not count that one because the mortality rate is less than COVID-19.
SARS (15% mortality rate)?
H1N1 (24% of the world’s population! the death rate was 0.02%)?
I suggest in about 7-10 days you re-read your post and see if you still think the same way. I agree w/ you on the panic buying…we’re Californians! We live in Earthquake country and these types of essentials are supposed to be already purchased…shows we are not ready for the Big One…which should strike just about now, just to pour salt in the wound.
@cellophane; @Dawg: first of all, those numbers are not actual cases out there (See Fauci presser); second of all, COCO ain’t doing anybody favors by withholding information – We have to assume these are via community spread.
Why are people posting that this isn’t serious?
The mortality rate is 7 times more then the regular flu.
This is real and it’s here. You will get it sometime in the next 12-18 months
We have to slow the infection rate.
What the hell is wrong with you people??? Stop spreading lies and pay attention
Shssh..let them run around thinking there’s no problem, touching everything up. And just let nature take it’s course. 😉
Where are you getting the 7 times deadlier than the flu? CDC reports that the 2019 flu death rate was 0.0009% of the infected population. The current projections are 3.4% of the infected rate for COVID-19 world wide, but 0.4% in some specific countries. All this was pulled from the CDC website, today, so it is a verifiable source. Neither of those numbers are 7 times the 2019 flu death rate. So if you are going to spout numbers, make them legit – provide your sources, please.
You also say we are going to get it within the next 12-18 months, again, cite your sources.
Have you (or government) considered the impact that isolation is going to have on the depressed, the seniors who live alone, those on fixed income who can not afford to buy 2 months supply of anything? Will this isolation work? News flash, it did not do a very good job in Italy … or the cruise ships … but people think it will work for a city?
This is a serious infection! I get it! But this is so HYPED up by social media, the main stream media, and people who think they are experts on EVERYTHING, that they have caused panic to run wild in our country.
So I went back to check my numbers
Per the NYT- mortality rate of regular flu is .1%
The Spanish Flu had a mortality rate of 2%
Right now (with incomplete and slightly skewed data) the mortality rate of COViD-19 is 3.4%
Totally agree AT!!! Natural selection at its finest.
When animals over populate, infections happen. It’s natural and we should accept it. We are a plague on our world and mother nature is taking a piece of it back.
There’s a definite upside to this whole thing. All those touchy, feely liberals that have to grab and hug me when we meet might get a clue and keep their hands to themselves. Also, Mexico’s “Hugs not Drugs” policy with respect to drug cartels will have to change. So, all is not lost!
I’ve been thinking about how I’ve been reading for the past year or so occasional articles that “suburbs & rural = bad” and “high density cities = good” for the environment and how we should all live in high density housing and exclusively take mass transit, etc. Looks like that philosophy forgot to take into consideration the downside of that with pandemics.
Agenda 21, they wanna kill people.
From a government perspective, death is OK if accompanied by revenue. Therefore, the Transit Village concept is here to stay.
Out with the boomers (and prop 13 tax breaks) and in with the heavily leveraged millennials who will have to move to Texas eventually anyway. It’s all so short-sighted.
Singapore has the 3rd highest density but they handled the COVID-19 better than any other country. It’s because they have a top notch health care system (Universal Health Care), took the virus very seriously right from the beginning, and have a population that followed the directives of the government.
Now Singapore is very restrictive with free speech and has very harsh punishment. However, what we can learn from them and from South Korea is to be more community minded and less I got mine screw everyone else.
Gitty can always be counted on for making irrational comments based on hatred and fear.
Gitty, please stay safe. Please be healthy and wash your hands. It is important for your family and the people near to you
Once again the leftists local governments have demonstrated their disdain for tax paying Americans in their home turf. While these measures may slow the spread, the massive homeless population on the streets and using public transportation will ensure this virus is here to stay and continue to spread. What measures are being taken to remove and quarantine the homeless from the streets? I haven’t seen one idea that would isolate them. Does anyone think that leaving them on the streets and allowed to use BART, will contain the virus? One solution is to have the Army Corp of Engineers and the National Guard build a secure tent encampment in an area like the Burning Man location. Then the homeless would be relocated their and triaged over time into different groups that could be treated or remained quarantined. The tolerance of the homeless situation is a public health hazard before this pandemic but now is even worse. Ask these local officials to explain with a straight face what their solution is to this part of society. I’d love to hear your ideas on how to prevent the homeless from infecting the general population.
@Agit8ed
There are a few articles in the news regarding the homeless. Newsom is working with hotel owners and finding places for our homeless.
If this gets worse we may go into lockdown.
Italy right now has a 50% mortality rate. Some of them have to keep their dead for a day or two in their houses because of this virus and the amount of people infected.
Right now South Korea is handling the spread the best.
Read the local newspapers. Go to http://www.cdc.gov and www. npr.org for better content.
A copy of a tweet a Twitter friend in Italy sent me…
>Here, in North Italy is very hard. My town had 387 dead in 7 days. I do my best hoping to falling sick. Enjoy every sandwich, agreeing with Warren Zevon, and be safe too! thanks so much.<
From what I’ve read from seemingly reasonable sources. There are likely 5-10X the actual number of cases compared to reported confirmed numbers. Unchecked on average the number of infected people doubles every 6 days. So on the low end of that assumption there are 170 infected people in CCC, if everyone went about life as normal in 60 days there would be 174k people infected.
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