COVID-19 case update for Lake Tahoe area counties

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - El Dorado County health officials say another 42 residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since Tuesday. Of those, eight are in El Dorado Hills, five in Cameron Park/Shingle Springs/Rescue, one in North County, -1 Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, one in Diamond Springs/El Dorado, eight in Greater Placerville Area, and 20 in the Lake Tahoe region.

One of those new cases, five are under the age of 18, 27 are aged 18-49, seven are aged 50-64, and three aged 65 or older.

Another 443 people were tested for the coronavirus and 401 negative tests results were received.

There have been another 24 assumed recoveries with 246 assumed active cases.

There are currently five COVID-19 patients in the Marshall or Barton hospital ICUs and one suspected case hospitalized in the ICU.

The county will remain in the orange tier as the adjudicate their State-assigned Red tier placement on 11-10-20.

To move to the next lower tier, the yellow/minimal tier, the average daily rate of new cases needs to be less than one per 100,000 residents, and positivity rate of less than two percent for the previous two weeks. This cannot be done until being in the orange tier for three weeks at a minimum, which means there could have been a re-evaluation on November 10 (County did not quality at the original Nov. 3 date).

The County dashboard shows cases by episode date, not by the date El Dorado County Public Health was notified about the new case. Episode date is the earliest of the following dates: (symptom onset date, diagnosis date, specimen collection date, date received, or date of death) and serves as the best approximation of the date of infection.

The 7-day positivity rate for El Dorado County is 3.4 percent positivity (specimens from Oct. 30-Nov. 5) and the 14-day rate of new cases is 106 (+2) (these figures do not include today's data).

The Lake Tahoe region of the county has moved into the High Tier (case rate per 100,000 population over the previous 14 days of 100) and are joined there by El Dorado/Diamond Springs and Shingle Springs/Cameron Park/Rescue. El Dorado Hills, Pollock Pines/Camino/Kyburz, North County and Greater Placerville are in the Moderate Tier (case rate per 100,000 population over the previous 14 days of 26-99). South County in the only area in the low tier (25 or less per 100,000 for last 14 days).

County-wide there have been 1,600 cases with 613 of those in the Lake Tahoe area (including South Lake Tahoe, Meyers, Strawberry, and Tahoma).

Pollock Pines, Camino, Kyburz - 51, 5 in last 14 days, 37 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95726, 95720, 95709)

El Dorado Hills - 422, 40 in the last 14 days, 94 per 100,000 rate (Zip Code 95762)

Diamond Springs, El Dorado - 50, 11 in the last 14 days, 117 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95623, 95619)

North County - 40, 4 in the last 14 days, 28 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95664, 95614, 95651, 95635, 95634, 95633)

Greater Placerville - 188, 33 in the last 11 days, 90 per 100,000 (Zip codes 95643, 95613, 95667)

Cameron Park, Shingle Springs, Rescue - 221, 42 in the last 14 days, 119 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95672, 95682)

South County - 15, 1 in the last 14 days, 10 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 95684, 95656, 95629, 95666, 95636)

Lake Tahoe region - 613, 68 in the last 14 days, 225 per 100,000 rate (Zip codes 96150, 96142, 95735, 95721, 96151, 96152, 96154, 96155, 96156, 96157, 96158, 95646)

Quad-Counties - Carson City, Douglas, Storey, Lyon

We are reporting 34 new cases and 25 additional recoveries of COVID-19 in the Quad-County Region. This brings the total number of cases to 2,219, with 1,892 recoveries and 27 deaths; 300 cases remain active.

Carson City
-1024 Total Cases (+19 from 11/10)
-209 Active (+8 from 11/10)
-804 Recovered (+11 from 11/10)
-11 Deaths (+0 from 11/10)

Douglas County (Cases in the Lake Tahoe area - 59 (+1) and 1 active cases (-1)
-466 Total (+3 from 11/10)
-26 Active (-6 from 11/10)
-438 Recovered (+9 from 11/10)
-2 Deaths (+0 from 11/10)

Lyon County
-704 Total (+12 from 11/10)
-61 Active ( +7 from 11/10)
-629 Recovered (+5 from 11/10)
-14 Deaths (+0 from 11/10)

Storey County
-25 Total (+0 from 11/10)
-4 Active (+0 from 11/10)
-21 Recoveries (+0 from 11/10)

TOTAL
-2,219 Total Cases (+34 from 11/10)
-300 Active Cases (+9 from 11/10)
-1892 Recovered (+25 from 11/10)
-27 Deaths (+0 from 11/10)

Gender and age break down of the cases by county as well as the cases by zip code is available at https://gethealthycarsoncity.org/novel-coronavirus-2019/

Washoe County

The Regional Information Center is reporting 843 new COVID-19 cases and non new deaths in Washoe County since Tuesday.

Total COVID-19 cases in Washoe County: 16,471 (+843) from 11/10
Deaths: 212 (+0)
Estimated recoveries: 12,667 (+252)
Active cases: 4435
Currently hospitalized: 141 *no updates since Tuesday
Cases who have discharged from hospital: 989 *no updates since Tuesday

125 (+3) of the confirmed cases to date are in Incline Village with 20 (+2) active ones, and one new active case and two recovered cases in Crystal Bay.

Placer County

There have been 63 new cases of confirmed COVID-19 in Placer County since Tuesday.

Lake Tahoe area cases - 49 (+3) are in Tahoe City, 156 (+3) in Kings Beach, 13 (+1) in Olympic Valley, 36 (+1) in Truckee, 15 (+0) in Carnelian Bay.

Their seven-day test rate is 4.6 percent positive, and average daily case rate for last 7 days is 9.2 per 100,000. Seven- day increase is 7.9 percent, 14-day increase is 16.2 percent.

South Placer - 208.8 cases per 100,000
Mid Placer - 91.3 cases per 100,000
East Placer - 131.1 cases per 100,000

5,056 cases (+63) with 288 (+8) of those in the Lake Tahoe area
Hospitalized - 43 (-2) with 7 (+1) in ICU
Deaths - 62 (+2)
Negative test results - 133,610 (+1,763)
Likely recoveries - 4,287 (+76)

Nevada County

There are 46 new cases of COVID-19 in Nevada County with 23 of those new cases near the Truckee area since Tuesday.

Confirmed cases - 779 (+46) with 303 (+23) in East County (Truckee area)
Likely recovered - 642 (+5)
Active Cases - 128 (+41)
Deaths - 9 (+0)
Hospitalizations - 4 (-1)
Patients tested for the week - 24,611 (0)

Alpine County

Confirmed Cases - 26 (+0)
Active Cases - 16 (+0)
Likely recovered - 10 (+0)
Deaths - 0
Hospitalized - 1 (+0)