CoViD-19 ICU Bed Capacity Dwindling | County Reports Record Weekly Deaths At 96 | Stay Home |

The Crew at the San Diego Zoo in the Before Times (11.29.2019)

It's been a pretty scary week out in the world, so we have definitely been nesting and sticking home, reluctantly doing errands when we have to...getting provisions at Costco a few nights ago and sending Darren to pick up dog food. We try to time things...like Saturday nights are actually a really good time to hit stores like Petco, because people in the world are still out running around doing fun stuff despite every region  in the state except NorCal being under stay-at-home orders, even if the Bay Area is preventative. 

We've started watching The Wilds on Amazon, so I'm gonna get back to some family time. Be safe out there. Hopefully we can start seeing some good news soon.

• Global COVID-19 Stats (JHU):
• 71,636,988 Known Cases
• 1,603,582 Known Deaths
• US COVID-19 Stats (COVID Tracking Project):
• 223,365 New Cases/15,956,435 Known Cases (10.2%+ Change over 7 Days)
• 2,477 New Deaths/289,535 Known Deaths
• 108,487 Current Hospitalizations
• 21,191 Currently in ICU
• 7,508 Currently on ventilator
• California COVID-19 Stats:
• 35,729 New Cases/1,521,432 Total Cases (2.4% increase)
• 225 New Deaths/20,847 Total Deaths (1.1% increase)
• 10.2% 14-day test positivity rate
• 13,410 Hospitalizations (3.5%+, +470 patients from prior day) 
• 2,866 ICU hospitalized in CA (3.2%+, +93 from prior day
• 1,419 ICU beds available (-39 from prior day)
• San Diego County Stats
• State Data:
• Southern California ICU Bed Availability: 5.3%
• 2,867 New Cases/102,468 Total Cases (2.9%+ from prior day)
• 34 Deaths/1,137 Total Deaths (3.1%+ from prior day)
• 32.9 cases/100k population (Based on week ending 12/1, Assessed on 12/8. Unadjusted Case Rate)
• 8.4% (County Calculations) 1.5% (State Calculation) Test Positivity (Assessed on 12/1.)
• 13.2% Health Equity Positivity (Assessed on 12/8)
• 1,001 hospitalized patients (+38, +3.9% from prior day)
• 274 ICU hospitalized patients (+18, +7.0% from prior day)
• 182 ICU beds available (-12 from prior day)
• County Data:
• San Diego is also hitting 7 triggers: High adjusted case rate, high community outbreaks, COVID-19 syndromic increasing (7%), influenza like illness increasing (5%), low ICU Capacity 16%, high testing positivity 9.1%, low case investigation 44%
• 2,490 New Cases/104,956 Total Cases 
• 14 New Daily Deaths/1,151 Total Deaths
• 9% Daily Test Positivity/9.1% (7-day avg after 7-day lag)/7.8% Test Positivity (14-day average)
• 27.0 cases/100k population (Assessed on 12/8. Unadjusted case rate per 100,000 excluding prisons.) 
• Case Investigation is 44% (under 70% goal)
• Increasing Day Over Day Hospitalizations 6.9%(207 % increase over 30 days)
• ICU Capacity 16% (under 20% Trigger. 152% increase over 30 days)
• 3 New/52 Community Outbreaks (7-day)
• Universities:
• SDSU COVID-19, UCSD COVID-19, USD COVID-19, CSU San Marcos, PLNU
• COVID-19:
• I Tested Positive for Covid-19. What Does That Really Mean? We reduce test results to “positive” or “negative.” Some experts think patients, and the community, would be better served by a more nuanced approach. - Wired (12.11.2020)
• Surging COVID cases placing strain on area hospitals, staff - The Californian (12.11.2020)