Contra Costa is now reporting 386 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 33 more than yesterday.
The county has also confirmed there have been six coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa.
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Hopefully someone on the Trump Covid-19 Task Force will finally figure out that the issue isn’t the production of test kits (companies are literally manufacturing hundreds of thousands of tests kits every day), but the lack of instrumentation to process those kits.
The number of instruments in the field cannot handle the number of tests that are being demanded in the hot spots. In the diagnostics business, this is called a “gating” factor.
Our Labs are de-centralized in this country. They only see their marketplace that is in front of them. Someone needs to head up a logistics control center that is able to match up lab capacity (supply) with that of testing (demand).
The bottleneck here isn’t from the manufacturing of test kits. Rather, the bottleneck is coming from the lack of LOGISTICAL support to get the kits and samples where they need to be.
Volunteer to straighten them out.
kiss your freedom goodbye. we will be sheltered till at least June. this virus stole so much from us. who knows if life will ever be the same again.
sure seems like another 911 attack on us that brought a different world
full of anxiety, depression and everyone taking drugs or killing themselves.
Just imagine being in a nursing.home with no visitors or family to check up on you. You have alzheimer’s disease and forget what the aides tell you from day to day,( if they even tell you.) Many will die from loneliness
or abuse.
Our grandparents fought in wars for us.
Youre simply being asked to sit on your couch.
I know you can do it!
The good news is that the mortality rate remains low. Holding between 2% and 3% for the planet so far.
No one’s death is acceptable.
Every aspect of one’s life is risky.
The ongoing tuberculosis pandemic continues to kill over 1.5 million people annually.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the annual mortality burden of influenza to be 250 000 to 500 000 all-cause deaths globally (2019).
The smallpox pandemic of the 20th century claimed between 300 to 500 million lives.
The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed well over 50 million people in one year.
The coronavirus is bad.
As a people, we have lived through worse.
97% or 98% of us residing on earth will survive this.
Keep a good thought and wash your hands.
Well said. Thank you.
Very well said and true, thanks
The current world population is 7.8 billion. Thus, using your numbers, between 156 and 234 million people will die. And that’s the good news?
Everyone needs to resume life. Enough with the fear.
Please do not advocate this. We need to shelter.
What you call fear, I call intelligence.
You first.
Fear. I think the news and social media are propagating the fear. News reports that hospitals are overflowing with patients, how come no lines outside of Oakland, Richmond or Walnut Creek hospitals? The media said we would have 100’s dead in our county by now, we have had 6. Washington State is now returning 400 ventilators to be used elsewhere because they do not need them. Something is not adding up.
We need to resume life, but more importantly, we should not be forced to live in fear.
@parent – It does add up; it’s because SIP is working. You mention CA and WA. Both these states implemented SIP earlier than other states and we are doing better than states that delayed calling for SIP.
@ Joatmeal
We can agree to disagree.
If SIP is working, then tell us that. Give us that news with DATA to support it. Do not keep telling us ‘we are surpassing x amount of deaths today’. Tell us, because of our actions, we have only seen y amount of deaths.
One of those messages instills FEAR and PANIC.
The other provides hope.
Which one is the media blasting out to us?
The article should have noted that there was one additional death since yesterday’s report and the total is now six. See this web page for the deaths by day.
Aunt Barbara and other doom and gloom commenters. We will not die from loneliness. First of all, most of us humans are capable of withstanding a lot more hardship and most of us think. How do you think people survived concentration camps, and what about hostages or prisoner’s of war. We are not isolated like we would have been years ago, we have telephone, computesr, we can talk, text and e-mail. We can also go outside as long as we don’t get close to people. I drove to Rio Vista the other day, and just walked down by the water, there were only a coupe of people so everyone kept their distance, but it was a nice day and it was nice being close to the water.
What has been the human toll from the lockdown of our State and nation? How many suicides? Hunger? Lost jobs and failed businesses? Depression? Domestic violence? Increased substance abuse? Fear?
The corona virus is bad news, no doubt. But I can’t help wondering if current measures are doing more harm than good. And now people are already talking about extending this into May or even June!
How long are you willing to be ‘locked down’ before you can’t/won’t take it anymore?
If this continues for very long the results will be far worse than the virus itself. Get healthy people back to work and have the vulnerable people shelter in place until it is safe for them.
No good bob if one of those workers come to work asymptomatic then everyone has it.
I doubt anyone is dying from hunger. If someone commit suicide because they have to be somewhat isolated for a month and or two, you have other problems. Businesses can be rebuild, your health and your life is more important than anything else.
@Hanne Jeppesen – if you think people aren’t going hungry right now then I suggest you do some more research. 1 in 8 Californians don’t know where there next meal is coming from and those numbers were before this pandemic. Schools are Continuing to provide meals for students because it’s often their only source of food for the day. The monument crisis center in Concord has seen 3x the amount of people lining up for help with groceries since the shelter in place has started.
Also, Mental Health is a serious issue that shouldn’t be downplayed as “other problems”. The isolation can have severe effects on people’s mood which can lead to depression. It may seem really easy to just stay at home for some but for others it’s not easy at all. So if you tell people to stay healthy you should consider their overall health and not just think about avoiding the virus, getting it is inevitable.
I’m all for trying to slow this virus down and will continue to stay at home until May 3rd but others are right too.
I saw on Facebook people saying 2 employees tested positive in Pittsburg and continued to go to work at there local Walmart. Does anyone know if that is true?
Many of my colleagues who work at Walmarts around the state, have expressed concern that the company is not taking it seriously. One of the employees mentioned that they’re still not allowed to tell customers to take a step back or not get too close when they’re helping them; since it would come off as rude. A real shame that employees aren’t being allowed to work safely in their job places. The era of taking care of your employees and staff over making more bucks has long come to an end.
As far as employees still being allowed or told to go to work when they’re sick, I can’t confirm that, but I wouldn’t be surprised. As far as two employees testing positive and going back to work, I highly doubt that. Anyone testing positive is most likely quarantined there in the hospital.
Two Walmart employees in Chicago died from COVID-19:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/04/05/two-walmart-employees-died-coronavirus-company-responds/2951849001/
Good to know that a National Emergency was declared by our President and our federal tax dollars were used to build a National Strategic Stockpile of 10,000 ventilators and other medical equipment that wont be coming to the nation’s largest economy anytime soon, according to Trump and his son in law, Jared Kushner.
“The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Mr Kushner said during the briefing. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpile that they then use.”
This makes no sense at all.
Zero.
Even after 3+ years of on the job training opportunities (squandered!) they still have no idea how any of this is supposed to work.
Obviously, they are holding the stockpile in reserve for distribution when the virus peaks and the items will be most in demand.
Every day the president says they send ventilators to where they are needed out of the stockpile that was depleted under past presidents. If they send more than a state needs and they are needed somewhere else they can’t get back what they have already sent because governors like Cuomo will cry like a stuck pig. You who loves facts should stick to them.
During the last three previous presidents allocations were made for ventilators. Money was spent and contracts were given and the government got zero ventilators. Suck on that for awhile.
So Gittyup says if you need a ventilator at the beginning of the crisis you don’t get one while they wait for the demand to peak, and Ricardoh says that for more than 20 years contracts have been let and monies spent for ventilators but zero delivered, yet none of the many agency briefings ever mentioned that. Sure wish we had someone like a Donald Trump who could have figured it all out 3 years ago and straightened out this mess before it became a real problem.
The “our” Kushner was referring to was the United States’ stockpile. The U.S. has supplied emergency equipment to other nations, as well. But “our” stockpile, the U.S. stockpile, is there to fill in the gaps and shortfalls at local and state levels. Obviously, local and state supplies must be exhausted before the federal stockpile is tapped so that they can be allocated as needed. There is no other reasonable way to do it. It doesn’t make sense for the federal government to send x number from the stockpile to point A when y number are needed at point B, instead They are allocated from the federal stockpile as needed, but jurisdictions are encouraged to deplete the local and state supply first. Many have said the greatest need is yet to come.
Dakota, I should have clarified my comment, I don’t think that people are going hungry because the stores are out of food, since whenever I go to the stores there is not shortage of fruit, veggies, meat, cheese and eggs. I have seen stores being out of bread, but that seems better.
As for people going hungry at all times, I know that, and I donate several times a year to the Contra Costa Solano food bank.
https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/dashboard
I’m not sure why they hide this info behind so many clicks…
the city breakdown is nice.
Good info More Info. That has got to be new.
Hi Claycord. How about telling us how many people have recovered? Or how many have tested positive but did not come down with it? All news outlets are only focusing on negative news, be the first with some thing positive.
why would you think claycord has this info????
Gheeze
And where are they supposed to obtain the data that you are looking for?
Without proper testing the numbers are meaningless. There may be many people who’ve been positive for the virus and recovered but were never tested. We’re fairly certain a friend of mine had a mild case, but she couldn’t be tested unless she developed a fever. Thankfully she never did.
Kevin Durant
Donovan Mitchell
Rudy Goebert
Marcus Smart
Doris Burke
have all recovered.
Dont you know good news doesnt sell?
I agree with Ms. Mom
A tiger tested positive for COVID-19 in the Bronx Zoo, she is the first animal to test positive in the U.S. Her sister and five other tigers have all developed a dry cough and are all expected to make a full recovery.
The tiger was infected by its handler. The handler was asymptomatic and passed it to the tiger. The tigers are expected to be fine. This virus is only severely harming humans. Your pets and animals are only at risk of being carriers. So give them all the love you want, just wash your hands after just in case. 😀
Good thing they are using tests on the freaking tigers. My gosh. What a waste.
Murray’s IHME UW model that has basically been running (ruining???) our lives is total BS, completely overestimating hospitalizations/ICU beds. Nearly every hospital in the country has stopped all elective procedures to gear up for the Kung Flu, but in areas the flood has not come, to the point there’s anecdotal evidence from many regions of nurses and other medical workers being furloughed. In Austin, TX, their St David’s Health network lists ER wait times at their various 10-or-so hospitals, and as of yesterday the LONGEST is 12 minutes, with many having ONE MINUTE wait times. NYC, Detroit, and New Orleans are NOT canaries for the coal mine that is the USA, but yet we have wrecked our economy as if they are. This isn’t to say that this isn’t dangerous and precautions shouldn’t be taken, but “precautions” are not the same as irrational panic.
You don’t get it Pete.
The surge is still coming.
Exactly!
Yeah, “it’s coming”, I bet in the proverbial “two weeks”, right? Guess that’s why Newsom is returning 500 ventilators to the national stockpile, and now the peak for CA that was supposed to hit any day now has been moved back to late-May. And keep in mind these projections from these absurd, BS models HAVE been taking social distance mitigation into account. These models are about as accurate as the “climate change” ones that had Manhattan underwater like 10 years ago, but of course once it didn’t happen, there’s no retraction, no correction, no apology, no contrition, they just feed more BS underlying “data” into the model and spit out a new date.
Let’s do some math. They have performed 5,240 tests. If they started testing 3/1/20, That would be 35 days, so 5240 divided by 35 is about 150 tests per day. That sounds like a lot.
But 5420 is less than 1/2 of 1% of the population (.47%).
I personally know 2 people that have been “super sick” over the last few weeks… Basically all the symptoms, plus others. They hospitals/doctors refused to test them. So, no matter what the County/Health Dept. tells us, the numbers and statistics are inaccurate.
I’m curious why doctors are refusing to test certain cases as well. My friend had all the symptoms, but doctor decided to just treat her as a generic pneumonia case. It was a phone consultation, and she was prescribed antibiotics and that was it. She got a lot worse before she got better, but we’ll never know if she had COVID-19 or not. I was around her a lot before she succumbed to the illness. I wonder what the criteria to get a test is, beyond having ALL the symptoms and being on a death bed…
So are you proposing they test everyone in the county? I understand where you are going with this, but um … if someone tests negative today, they may test positive in 2 weeks, right?
So maybe your calculation should take into consideration how many folks that are showing symptoms of SARS2 have been tested. Unless you think everyone in the county is sick ….
In case anyone was wondering how many cases there are by city in the county go here: http://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org. Scroll down to find your city and the current number that day
That is not the number of cases in each city. It’s the number positive results of the limited number that have been tested.
OK but with all of this how many people have recovered from this virus????
The FDA-approved Drug Ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
Australian researchers have published a study showing a drug commonly used to treat parasite infections can also kill coronavirus in a laboratory setting in under 48 hours.
https://www.newsweek.com/anti-parasite-drug-used-since-1980s-may-help-stop-coronavirus-new-study-says-1496083?amp=1
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166354220302011
Maybe I’m missing something here, but why the need for stats on who recovers. We have always been told that the vast majority of people will recover, so it’s not exactly newsworthy, and if the death rate is, let’s say for purposes of argument, 5 percent, doesn’t that mean 95% recover?
mtzman
I think the point is that the news is not giving the full picture and is only focused in on death. And they are even messing up those numbers. Doctors are listing SARS2 as the cause of death even if they person had CHF, Diabetes Type 2 or had a heart attack brought on by stress. If someone was depressed, committed suicide and then tested positive for SARS2, the cause of death would be listed as SARS2. We need honest news and data. I for one, I want a full picture so I can make the understand the need for this forced quarantine. So, I translate that to wanting to know total members of a community, total members showing any symptoms, total number tested, total number positive, total number in hospital (serious case), total number recovered and total number died. The total number died would need to be split into more categories, but it would simply boil down to this question. If instead of SARS2 the patient contracted the flu, cold, etc, would that have been enough to push the patient over the edge leading to their death? If so, then SARS2 is not the cause of their death, but the preexisting conditions were.
The issue of accurate reporting of causes of death seems to be one pertaining to the doctors and not the news media. I suspect the data points you want will someday be available but most likely not right away. Again, that does not seem to be a media issue but one for the health care authorities.
So let me ask you this: again using the 5-95 example for discussion purposes, given the current reluctance of many to adhere to the existing guidelines, do you think the response would be even worse if the media hyped a 95% recovery rate? Nothing on the ground actually changes in that scenario; only the way in which it is presented to the public.
mtzman
Not sure if it would be worse, but it would be different.
1. The psychological impact on those of staying at home becomes one of hope vs gloom and despair.
2. Knowing that the actions we are taking are helping. Versus, all we her are the death and contamination rates, it can appear that the efforts of SIP are not helping.
Not sure I answered your question about making it worse, don’t think I actually did.
I think you did answer the question, and I see your point and largely agree with the perspective it brings. I think a combination of hope through the survival rate and the fear of death is probably the best thing. My fear is that many people who are clamoring for the survival rate are doing so in order to somehow defend the president and justify his actions, which just doesn’t fly with me.
mtzman
I am not defending any politician at this time …president, governor, mayors … all … yeah, But I understand your concern.
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