July 5 reporting: 206 new cases (not good, but less than the day before) (total 5273), 1 death, 85 hospitalized.
In terms of specimen collection, Tuesday, June 24 was about 175% of the previous maximum day (the week before).
(Why are Tuesdays highest? I guess someone gets symptoms over the weekend, does telemedicine on Monday and is told to get tested; It takes another day to figure out where. (The past 2 weeks, Tuesday test count > 1.5x Monday test count) Anyone have a better idea why? I think the county, state, and country should push practices so the delay of several days over the weekend is minimized. For instance, PR pushes on Fridays & Saturdays to announce weekend testing locations & emphasizing you don't need to see your doctor first. OR, maybe Tuesday is a day for testing LTCFs and it has been picking up a number of cases recently.)
Will Tuesday, July 1 be the new high when all the test results are back? Could be.
It looks like bad news for those wishing for contact tracing: The percentage of cases from unknown source ticked up.
Currently 3086 (58.52%) of the 5273 are from unknown source, 1868 (35.43%) are from a known case, 265 (5.03%) are from an outbreak, 54 (1.02%) are from travel.
Yesterday, the numbers were about 2849 (56.2%) of the 5069 were from unknown sources, 1911 (37.7%) were from a known source, 253 (5%) were from an outbreak, and about 56 (1.1%) were from travel.
Those deltas make no sense to me. Maybe I need a few more iterations before I can figure it out. Or maybe they're adjusting what they're measuring & reporting.
EDIT: The math makes sense, but the interpretation doesn't match anything that makes sense to me: Travel-related cases dropped by 2. Known source cases dropped by 43. Outbreak cases went up 12. Unknown cases went up 237. WEIRD....
Percent positives still have a slow climb. I'm not sure if I missed it yesterday (or all the results weren't in), but last weekend's tests had a 3.8% positive rate.
Hospitalizations had a sharp rise June 22-28, but have mostly stabilized (at the high end) since then. Except one day of 90, hospitalizations have been between 78 and 85 for the past week.
In LTCF, another facility appears to be having an outbreak. Villa Fontana (San Jose Residential Care Facility for the Elderly) is reported to have 17 residents & 11 staff with COVID.
In terms of specimen collection, Tuesday, June 24 was about 175% of the previous maximum day (the week before).
(Why are Tuesdays highest? I guess someone gets symptoms over the weekend, does telemedicine on Monday and is told to get tested; It takes another day to figure out where. (The past 2 weeks, Tuesday test count > 1.5x Monday test count) Anyone have a better idea why? I think the county, state, and country should push practices so the delay of several days over the weekend is minimized. For instance, PR pushes on Fridays & Saturdays to announce weekend testing locations & emphasizing you don't need to see your doctor first. OR, maybe Tuesday is a day for testing LTCFs and it has been picking up a number of cases recently.)
Will Tuesday, July 1 be the new high when all the test results are back? Could be.
It looks like bad news for those wishing for contact tracing: The percentage of cases from unknown source ticked up.
Currently 3086 (58.52%) of the 5273 are from unknown source, 1868 (35.43%) are from a known case, 265 (5.03%) are from an outbreak, 54 (1.02%) are from travel.
Yesterday, the numbers were about 2849 (56.2%) of the 5069 were from unknown sources, 1911 (37.7%) were from a known source, 253 (5%) were from an outbreak, and about 56 (1.1%) were from travel.
Those deltas make no sense to me. Maybe I need a few more iterations before I can figure it out. Or maybe they're adjusting what they're measuring & reporting.
EDIT: The math makes sense, but the interpretation doesn't match anything that makes sense to me: Travel-related cases dropped by 2. Known source cases dropped by 43. Outbreak cases went up 12. Unknown cases went up 237. WEIRD....
Percent positives still have a slow climb. I'm not sure if I missed it yesterday (or all the results weren't in), but last weekend's tests had a 3.8% positive rate.
Hospitalizations had a sharp rise June 22-28, but have mostly stabilized (at the high end) since then. Except one day of 90, hospitalizations have been between 78 and 85 for the past week.
In LTCF, another facility appears to be having an outbreak. Villa Fontana (San Jose Residential Care Facility for the Elderly) is reported to have 17 residents & 11 staff with COVID.