California’s average daily coronavirus test positivity rate is down nearly 10 percent over the last two weeks, a sign that the state’s winter surge may be turning a corner, the state’s Health and Human Services secretary said Tuesday.
The state’s 14-day average test positivity rate sits at 11.6 percent, according to Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly. That figure is down from the 12.7 percent positivity rate on Jan. 5.
It is also higher than the state’s average test positivity rate over the last seven days, 9.9 percent, which is also under 10 percent for the first time in several weeks.
“We are seeing some reductions in transmission,” Ghaly said Tuesday during a briefing on the pandemic.
“I think we’re seeing that statewide, not just in certain parts that often have seen that decrease first, but we’re seeing it also in some of those most heavily impacted areas like Southern California and San Joaquin Valley,” he said.
Coronavirus-related hospitalizations have also decreased 2.8 percent over the last seven days and 8.5 percent over the last 14 days, according to Ghaly.
The decreases all indicate that the state’s wave of winter coronavirus cases and deaths may be beginning to crest, Ghaly said.
State officials, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have referred to the winter spike in cases as the “last wave” of the virus before vaccines become widely available to the public.
To date, roughly 3.2 million vaccine doses have been shipped to the state’s local health departments and health care systems, with roughly 1.5 million doses administered.
On Friday, counties across California administered the largest number of vaccine doses in one day to date — 110,505 — ultimately helping the state meet its goal of doling out 1 million doses by Friday.
Delays in data reporting also mean the state’s total number of administered vaccine doses is likely even higher than 1.5 million, Ghaly said.
According to Ghaly, several local public health departments and private health care systems, including San Francisco, have also expressed concern that they will run out of vaccine doses soon as new shipments remain at a trickle.
State officials have remained optimistic that the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden will dramatically increase vaccination shipments, subsequently allowing the state to increase the speed with which it vaccinates both vulnerable groups like people over age 65 and the public at large.
“The number one thing we want to make sure we do across the state is make sure we’re doing this safely, with speed and in an equitable way,” Ghaly said.
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Now that China Joe is the commander in thief the Covid numbers will precipitously start to improve. Big Government, Big Media, and Big Tech will make sure of it.
Scary how powerful and evil they are
They don’t even try to hide it
Perfect timing for Biden huh? We’ll be out of this in about 3 months.
Shhhhhhhh the President is speaking
And so it begins……..
Haha! I figured this would be what the comments would say. Yeah, maybe now we’ll get some actual reality about this “pandemic” which was used by the corporate owned Democratic Party to win the election with their last place puppet candidate.
To be clear I consider myself to be liberal but not the phony shallow liberals that many people are claiming to be liberal. 30 years ago we would have called those people “middle of the road”. If we go back about 15 years we were united both right and left …. against the Bush administration. Let’s see how the “shallow ones” react to Biden’s war mongering.
Agreed Bebops
A classic liberal from the 60s or 70s would have no choice but to vote Republican today.
It’s a new dawn.
It’s a new day.
It’s a new life.
And I’m feeling good. 😀
LOL, Looks like the flu will make a return after its departure for 10 months.
Even CBC in Canada ran a story about the disappearance of the flu.
All a SCAM. CONVID.
It will be interesting to see if they show as much disrespect to Biden as they did to Trump. Of course, they won’t. Dementia Joe will be the best thing since sliced bread. What a flippin joke. Joe watch your back Kamala will do anything and everything in her power to get you out office and her into the presidency.
If I was him I’d appoint the first presidential food taster in history. The first in my memory anyway…
I’m taking the under on whether or not Slow Joe makes it even 90 days into his (stolen) Presidency.
We all will be just fine. We should all treat President Biden with the same respect that our great media and Democrats treated President Trump these past four years.
Wear your Tinfoil Mask, buddy!
If everything all of a sudden becomes Rainbows and Unicorns then I guess we’ll all know we’ve been played by both the politicians and the media.
You forgot the sprinkles. Gotta have those!
Well just on cue, the corner is turned. Vaccines will suddenly be in the ARMS of Californian’s and business and schools can open again. The sun will shine, birds will sing, the fires will be put out and the plate glass windows replaced. They started the reign of terror and assault on America 4 years ago this week, lest we forget, just re-post the “protests” that went off this week 4 years ago. #weseeyoudemocratsanddontlikewhatyouaredoing
P.S. – Start the countdown until the Democrats REMOVE Biden from office for diminished capacity and promote our first Affirmative Action Vice President Kamala Harris to President Unelected…
I read in today’s Times the City of Oakland has passed a temporary ordinance forcing large employers to pay sick leave for those workers who got sick from Covid 19 on the job, or are caring for a family member who caught the virus.
I also read SF. Berkeley and Antioch have passed, or are trying to pass, local ordinances that will force Grocery stores to pay their workers 5 dollar more per hour during this pandemic. These workers, of course,, are risking their lives working during this pandemic surge. The work they are doing is vital – they are keep us fed – so they clearly deserve an extra five bucks an hour.
While a number of cities have stepped it up trying to alleviate the suffering of Covid19 victims, or their family’s, along with helping our heroic grocery store workers, the folks sitting on the Concord City Council haven’t done one thing to assist Covid 19 victims or our grocery workers.
From almost day one the City of Concord’s attitude on the pandemic has been “not our department”. The City of Concord response to the pandemic has been a disgrace. In fact, the only thing Concord city officials have done recently is to raise our taxes, the council put a ballot measure on the ballot that made permanent an extra half cent sales tax, and the ballot measure also doubled the tax to 1%
Stop and think about it. We have all these people in our community suffering because of the pandemic, people getting sick, people dying, people losing their jobs, people standing for hours in line at food banks, and these city officials thought it would be a great time to raise Concord residents taxes!
Significantly, the new money being raised by the hike in sales taxes – 27 million – is all going to be used to pay the bloated pay packages of overpaid City of Concord workers. City employees in Concord, as I have been ;pointing out for months, are among the highest paid in the bay area, without any justification at all. Concord has almost no services to speak of, other than policing. Nothing. Nada!
I blame the local newspaper – the Times – for failing to inform readers of the ongoing corruption you are seeing in Concord. City of Concord pay packages are high only because of a culture of corruption that permeates. our city, notably at the PD
The PD is featherbedded with managers, rookie officers are being paid 120,000 to start, retiring officers are retiring with 170,000 a year pensions, even though some never pulled a gun lout in the 30 years they worked at Concord PD. The fleecing of taxpayers in Concord, many of whom are senior citizens (like myself), is just a disgrace at every level.
Getting back to Concord’s tepid response to the pandemic, I believe the reason you are seeing this is because we have bad people serving on the Concord – really awful people (see Hoffmiester, Obringer, and McGallian), and we’ve got a terrible city manager – Valerie Barone – who won’ lift a finger to end the ongoing corruption you are seeing in Concord (she only serves at the pleasure of the Concord POA)
The city of Concord – today, as it organized – doesn’t exist to serve the people, not pandemic victims, not senior citizens, not for our kids either,, it exist now only to help city employees buy homes homes in Discovery Bay and to pay for their vacations in Can Cun. Concord today, as it’s organized, can be aptly described as a continual criminal enterprise, the corruption being centered at Concord PD.
If they truly cared about controlling the disease, they would be sending 95 rated respirators to every citizen in the mail, while banning the use of mostly-useless masks like clothe masks and bandanas.
But it’s not.
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