CA Covid-19 Numbers Climb; Riverside County Hospitals Coping Well

California has tested 20,342,072 of its 40 million people for the Covid-19 virus, since March 2020.  That’s 50.85% of the population.

 

19,657,928 people still need to be tested in California, that’s 49.14% of the state’s population.

 

4.87% of the people tested for Covid-19 in California have tested positive. That’s 991,609 people.

 

95.12% of the people tested for Covid-19 in California have tested negative.  That’s 19,350,463 people.

 

California has 18,108 deaths from Covid-19, which is 1.82% of those who have tested positive.

 

California hospitals report 4/10th’s of 1% of the people who have tested positive, are hospitalized, which is 4,002 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the hospitals. 1,010 of those patients are in ICU.

 

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On Friday November 13th 2020, Riverside County remains in the California’s most restrictive Purple Tier, for Widespread risk of Covid-19 transmission.

 

Riverside County has tested 911,258 people for Covid-19 since March 2020, out of a population of 2.5 million.  That’s 36.45% of the County’s population.

 

 

1,588,742 people still need to be tested in the county, that’s 63.54% of the county’s population.

 

8.07% of the people tested for Covid-19 in Riverside County have tested positive. That’s 73,541 people.

 

91.92% of the people tested for Covid-19 in Riverside County have tested negative.  That’s 837,717 people.

 

Of the 73,541 people who have tested positive in Riverside County,

87.29% of them, 64,200 have fully recovered.

10.49% of them, 7,715 are at home recovering. Together, that’s 97.78% of all the positive cases.  545 new cases in the past 24 hours.

 

3/10th’s of 1%, of the people who have tested positive so far in Riverside County, 271 people, remain hospitalized, and 67  of them are in Intensive Care.

 

1.84% of the people who have tested positive so far in Riverside County, 1,355 people, have died from Covid-19. 385 of those deaths have been in the Coachella Valley, which is 28.41% of the County’s total. 347 deaths in cities, 38 deaths in unincorporated areas…10 in Mecca,  1 in Vista Santa Rosa, 3 in Bermuda Dunes, 5 in Garnet, 3 in Desert Palms, 5 in Desert Edge, 5 in Oasis, 1 in Thousand Palms, 2 in Sky Valley, 2 in Thermal,  and 1 in North Shore.

 

Of the 1,355 people who have died from Covid-19 in Riverside County, 939 of them have been over 65; 348 have been between 45 and 64.

 

17,075 positive cases have been recorded in the Coachella Valley since March 8th 2020, when the testing and counting began. 90.02% of them, 15,371  people, have recovered. There are 1,704 active cases in the desert on 11/13/2020.

 

2,304 cases are in unincorporated areas of the desert since March 2020.

(Mecca 517 cases, Thermal 208 cases, Oasis 384 cases,  North Shore 182 cases, Bermuda Dunes 164 cases, Thousand Palms 279 cases, Vista Santa Rosa 110 cases, Garnet 262 cases, Desert Palms 60 cases, Desert Edge 83 cases, and Sky Valley 55 cases).

88.97%, or 2,050 people have recovered from Covid-19 in unincorporated areas:

Mecca 469, Thermal 190, Oasis 349, North Shore 147, Bermuda Dunes 141,

Thousand Palms 250, Vista Santa Rosa 101, Garnet 236, Desert Palms 46, Desert Edge 69, Sky Valley 52.  254 active cases of Covid-19 in unincorporated areas as of 11/13/2020.

 

 

 

14,771 Covid-19 cases reported in cities in the desert, since March 2020.

90.18% of those people, 13,321 people have recovered. 1,450 active Covid-19 cases in cities in the Coachella Valley as of 11/13/2020.

 

2,215 cases in Cathedral City, 38 dead     2,040 people have recovered

3,068 cases in Coachella,      32 dead     2,842 people have recovered

1,298 cases in Desert Hot Springs, 29 dead, 1,172 people recovered

58 in Indian Wells,   4 dead               50 people have recovered

4,327 cases in Indio, 86 dead              3,919 people have recovered

990 cases in La Quinta, 19 dead            882 people have recovered

1,236 cases in Palm Desert,  58 dead       1060 people have recovered

1,289 cases in Palm Springs, 57 dead       1,111 people have recovered

290 cases in Rancho Mirage,  24 dead       245 people have recovered

 

Elsewhere:

25 cases in Idyllwild/Pine Cove, 1 death;   23 people have recovered

70 cases in Cabazon, 1 dead;                65 people have recovered

 

 

 

In Riverside County:

 

There are no deaths from Covid-19 for anyone from newborn to age 17.

8 deaths among people aged 18-24.

60 deaths among people aged 25-44

348 deaths among people aged 45-64

644 deaths among people aged 65-84

295 deaths among people aged 85 and up.

 

802 deaths are men, 547 are women, and 0 are transgender, non-binary or intersex according to county officials.

 

Riverside County has 3,559 cases in nursing homes, with 2,200 cases among patients, and 1,359 cases among staff. The overwhelming majority of nursing home cases, 957 cases, are in the City of Riverside.

In Coachella Valley nursing facilities, there have been 192 cases in Palm Desert, 175 in Palm Springs, 77 in Rancho Mirage, 58 in Indio, 53 in La Quinta,

 

 

All testing is free to the patient being tested.

Drive-thru testing is available by appointment only at the Riverside County Fairgrounds in Indio  from 9 a-m to 3 p-m Tuesday through Saturday, by appt only. You can also get tested at the Cathedral City Library on Date Palm Drive. Go online to www.rivcoph.org/coronavirus/testing to make an appointment or call 800-945-6171 to make an appointment, and you no longer need to have symptoms to schedule a test.

Go online to www.lhi.care/covidtesting or call 888-634-1123 to make an appointment to get tested at the Lozano Community Center in Desert Hot Springs or at Bagdouma Park Community Center on Douma Street in Coachella

Or call 760-992-0407 to get tested at the Desert Aids Project in Palm Springs. Or go to www.desertaidsproject.org

To get a test through Borrego Health, call 833-624-1097 to make an appointment in Coachella.  Or www.borregohealth.org for a complete listing of Borrego Health test sites in the desert.

 

Or contact www.gettested.ruhealth.org for a list of test sites in Riverside County.

To get tested at a CVS drug store in the Coachella Valley, make an appt at www.cvs.com/minuteclinic. Testing available at the following CVS Stores in the desert.

 

— 82-270 Highway 111, Indio

— 425 S. Sunrise Way, Palm Springs

— 84010 Avenue 50, Coachella

— 42150 A Jackson St., Indio

— 44075 Jefferson St., La Quinta

 

If you have any questions about Covid-19, call Eisenhower Health Covid-19 Hotline at 760-TEST-988.

 

It is staffed by registered nurses 24/7 to answer Covid-19 questions.

 

The Riverside County General Information Covid-19 line is 2-1-1.

 

California information www.covid19.ca.gov

 

Federal information www.cdc.gov

 

 

Rite Aid is doing Covid-19 testing by appointment for people 18 years of age or older, regardless of whether the person is experiencing symptoms. Results are expected in three to five days.

 

The Coachella Valley locations providing testing starting Thursday July 16th 2020 are:

 

— 12900 Palm Drive, Desert Hot Springs;

— 51101 Cesar Chavez St., Coachella;

— 47985 Monroe St., Building A, Indio; 

 

The sites will utilize self-swab nasal tests overseen by Rite Aid pharmacists, and will operate weekdays from 10 a.m to 8 p.m., and weekends from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

 

Patients must provide government-issued ID, and register online at www.riteaid.com to schedule an appointment.

 

 

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