Contra Costa is now reporting 1,336 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the county, which is 15 more than yesterday.
1,092 people in Contra Costa County with COVID-19 have fully recovered.
There have been 37 coronavirus-related deaths in Contra Costa.
Currently, the county has 207 active cases of COVID-19.
Below is a city-by-city breakdown of coronavirus cases for Contra Costa County:
RELATED STORY FROM SUNDAY: 1,321 Confirmed Cases Of Coronavirus (201 Active Cases) In Contra Costa County – 25 More Than Yesterday (1,084 Recovered)
RELATED INFO FROM SUNDAY (cases by city):
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I’m just gonna keep beating this drum: the low numbers are good news. But we aren’t realistically going to get them much lower, while on the other hand the SIP is unsustainable. So isn’t it time to shift towards risk mitigation and away from blunt tools like putting the whole population under shelter in place? We need a sustainable strategy. Right now we are doing great damage with a “treatment” that can’t last for the long haul, and we can’t realistically get those #s much lower than they are now. The cost of every additional week of SIP in livelihoods lost, long term economic damage, educational damage to kids, psychological damage, medical harm from deferred treatments and check ups, and and suicide – where is the dashboard for all that? Just because we haven’t been measuring that doesn’t make it unreal.
I believe the virus is a real emergency, and the initial use of a SIP order was justifiable. But not the indefinite use!
Well said. I agree 100%.
Factually stated with common sense…have to agree….there is a point we no longer have a country.
People are still dying in our county. We must stay at home.
Uh Bayarea, people have always been dying in this county. Did you think they just started dying because of Covid-19? We want the truth and accurate counts. The counts here are very low. And who can say that those who have died would have died at this time anyway without Covid-19? Inquiring minds want to know.
I completely agree Led. That’s a very reasonable position to take. I think this has changed into something else, where people have taken very extreme views on it, and I think they are thinking ideologically, rather than logically now. I don’t think there are any numbers, no matter how good, that would change their mind at this point. They’re going to run our society into the ground to stick to their initial plan. I understand the concept Jojo is outlining, and I initially agreed- I just think we’ve strayed way off track from it.
BayArea, fo you think there have been no deaths of other causes because of the lockdown? You know, like increased numbers of suicides? I take it you have sufficient income or finances so that you can afford to keep hunkering down. Other people have been unable to make a living because they were forced to close their businesses. Not every one qualifies for unemployment. There are some very negative consequences to keeping this lockdown going. People are suffering in ways you may not be aware of.
BayArea user is Clearly one of the SUPER lucky ones who is either getting that Juicy EDD check or maybe “Retired” While the rest suffer? This area is still under Newsoms thumb. As of Monday, all but 11 of California’s 58 counties have completed that process. The only counties not allowed to move into Stage 2.5 are Alameda, Contra Costa, Imperial, Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Tulare (per kgo site)
SO to keep ALL cities surround the Bay, he keeps us: SIP. I guess he figures most will NOT drive. Remember- NO MORE than 10 miles from your home allowed. 6 feet- 6 feet. SIX feet distance. 666 hmmmm, where have I seen that number before. Newsom= Mark of the beast
@bayarea: When did Covid-19 become the be-all end-all for our county? People will continue to die, but more so from cascading effects on our health FROM…staying at home! The curve has been flattened and our healthcare system is not overwhelmed, let’s end this charade and get on with our lives…
Led, well said.
“People are still dying in our county. We must stay at home.”
And they will continue to die whether we stay home or not, just like the past hundreds of years.
Well stated Led.
There is a strategy in place: open certain sectors up, see what happens over 2-3 weeks. If numbers are still ok, cautiously open up more. Repeat. The problem is those weeks feel they are dragging on and on. We need the information each phase gives us to know better how to respond when the next wave hits, otherwise we’ll just see everything shut down all over again.
I agree with you . I don’t like the way they selected who could open and who couldn’t.
Led, you are absolutely correct. The sip is much harder on us than the virus at this point. Todays results continue to indicate that one location is driving the narrative (12 out of 15 cases) and 260 out of the 1,336 total positives, or 19.4% of the total. It is time for mitigation. The health department should spend the time and money necessary where it could do the most good. The five locations Richmond, Antioch, Concord, San Pablo, and Pittsburg. These account for 695 of the 1,336 cases. 52% of the total.
What do you expect? Those 5 locations have 43.5% of the county population………….
The real hot spots are San Pablo, Orinda, Bay Point, and El Sobrante. That is where the confirmed infection rate is highest.
I agree that we can cautiously return to some stage of normal life, but it’s crtitical that ALL Americans are on the same page. We have to wear masks right now when we go out – if everyone would, we’d be in much better shape. It’s hard to open safely when a good portion of this country thinks the virus is not a big deal.
No problem for the three of us in our household to continue to distance and mask ourselves. Need to take care of ourselves cause we are in the “disposable” segment of our culture – over 70 years old. But, one never knows when this virus might reverse itself and target the other end of the demographics.
Agree on wearing a mask inside business Outside it would be healthier to not wear a mask unless you can not be 6 feet apart a lot of space outdoors iam sure one can keep 6 feet apart outside!
as of 05/25:
1,336 confirmed cases (CCC) with 37 deaths = 2.77% death rate.
Maybe the conspiracy guys are all crowded together on a beach!
As an aside, I drove through downtown Walnut Creek this morning. The number of for lease signs in windows and homeless people on every block sure reflect the times.
Antonius. Apparently, you did not grasp the point. We should put the effort and the money where it will do the most good.
I did not miss the point. I am sure that the County Health Department knows that the areas with the highest populations will yield more + results.Do the math.
With that line of reasoning the Navajo nation would be doomed. Maybe they have a high infection rate but there just aren’t enough of them to worry about, eh?
I believe 100% in freedom and our (U.S.) Constitution. It works every time it is tried. That said, if you want to ‘cower-in-place’ till there is a vaccine, hell freezes over, or you run out of money, THAT is your choice.
But as for me and MY house, we want to be free and exercise all of our Constitutional and God-given rights. I don’t want a Governor, Mayor or City Council deciding what is ‘essential’ for me.
The numbers simply don’t support policies which kill businesses, education (low-income kids have been grievously harmed), or people from other causes (cancer, heart, high BP, diabetes, etc) which aren’t being diagnosed currently.
There should be a ‘like’ button for posts, cause this would definitely get it from me. My choice, my freedom are my rights.
Antonius, if the health department did more than just count results they certainly would do just as I suggest. However, that does not seem to be the case.
Part of the problem is that heath authorities still have not figured out what’s different about New York City and the rest of the country. New York City had 2,150 COVID-19 deaths in March, 12,175 in April, and 2,085 more so far in May for a total of 16,410. SARS2 and COVID-19 are clearly not “just a flu.”
Keep in mind that New York City locked down hard and despite that has lost 0.2 percent of their total population A similar death rate would result in 2,271 deaths here in CC county and 646,099 for the USA.
Another issue is that there is no treatment, no cure, and no vaccine. The use of PPE only lowers the chances of getting infected. The case fatality rate increases significantly with age. About a third of those age 80 and up that catch COVID-19 die.
At present the only tools available are shelter-in-place, social distancing, masks, etc. which all work together to slow down the spread. This buys time to better understand the virus and disease which leads to improved tools and possibly improvements on the medical side.
I don’t know if health authorities are figuring it out, but journalists are writing about it back east. High density population, reliance on public transportation and massive testing. New York and New Jersey.
I have seen those news reports too. Many of them are guesswork and speculation. It’s not the sort of thing that health authorities want to gamble 600,000 lives on. For now, they are asking that the more conservative protocols be used and to gradually loosen them up while hoping things don’t blow up.
Density and exposure time seem to be coming up regularly. One of the puzzles being looked at are outbreaks in meat packing plants, prisons, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. All of them are controlled environments and there is less guesswork about the level and type of contact between people. Does transmission tend to occur in the work area, break/lunch rooms, when employees are being bused in. etc? Findings from those environments will likely drive protocols for the rest of us.
Guesswork and speculation or common sense?
There’s a ton of unknowns, especially if you look internationally. Japan has not had a major crisis with this, in spite of never going into hard lockdown AND not doing the super-aggressive tamp-down of cases by ID’ing and isolating them like South Korea and Singapore. Why haven’t they had an explosion? Nobody really knows.
But yeah, the New York and tri-state situation shows pretty clearly how bad this can get. I don’t think other parts of the country would have spiked so very quickly, because nowhere else is as dense and public transit-heavy as NYC. But we’re all still vulnerable. The thing is, no state, SIP or not, is going to go “back to normal” all the way. People were already changing their behavior very significantly before the shutdown orders came down, and transmission was already slowing before those orders happened. So one of the unknowns is how much a SIP like we have right now is actually helping compared to a softer but still significant set of restrictions. If we lifted the SIP today but restricted private gatherings to 25 or less, encouraged everything to be held outdoors as much as possible, mandated masks in shared indoor spaces and encouraged them generally – how much difference would we see? Would transmission spike? Would it go modestly up? Would it stay pretty flat? We don’t actually know the answer to that.
Imagine this is a medical situation with a single patient, and you, the doctor, have staved off a dangerous disease by using a drug with really harsh, ultimately intolerable side effects. You don’t know how well the patient will do if you ease off the dosage of this drug. So caution suggests leaving things as they are. But you *also* know that the treatment itself is causing health damage and you need to get the patient off that drug at some point in the fairly near future. You can’t make a solid judgment just by thinking about one side of the question.
Ok fearless, I’ll bite. It’s not conspiracy to discuss that we need to be mindful of what unelected (and elected) people are doing with our rights. These rights are all of ours and yes some of us can be very touchy. But to say that people are not sane is 1. Expected 2. Shortsighted. That’s the part about being Americans you forget. We will always try to protect the rights of people we don’t know. I could care less if you think some of us are not sane but if you look around there are constitutional issues all over our country. Business having water shut down, churches forbidden to assemble. Questionable arrests. You can agree or not with those actions. The idea that having our rights stripped away due to a health emergency is not constitutional. Doesn’t matter what any of us think about it. Or how fearful it may be. It’s simply not allowed. Reasonable measures were asked and taken at the onset of this. When it’s all said and done the courts will side with the constitution. Be mindful when you’re insulting people while believing it can’t happen here. Things have already happened.
devil’s advocate since everyone is pro opening, perhaps authorities are so cautious because SARS1 has serious long term health repercussions for those who suffered it. Perhaps the government does not want to have an entire nation of invalids in a decade or two. Note how the US military has become extremely shy about hiring people who have recovered from the virus.
This County’s leadership is a total failure. A majority of California counties will be able to certify that they are moving into the next stage. Our county cannot. Our supervisors cannot light a fire under Farnitano fast enough. The county is failing in its efforts to test and trace, and that goes straight back to the people who run the show. They’ve had months. The supervisors are impotent, and silent, and the county is dying day by day. The health dept. is showing that it is not up to the task. Maybe we need state assistance at this point because at this rate, there won’t be a business left out here.
Agreed. This was known for the last couple of months at least: we would need to set up an expanded corps of contact tracers. Why are we so behind on that? There’s plenty of unemployed people out there!
Had a lady go militant on my yesterday at Safeway. Apparently I was going the wrong way down a one-way aisle! So somebody tell me how a one-way aisle is going to stop the spread of COVID-19 when people are stopping to get things off the shelf. She literally would not let me pass. The country is going mad.
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