CA Reaches 25% Tested For Covid-19; RivCo Not Quite 19% Tested

California has tested 10,140,683 of its 40 million people for the Covid-19 virus, since March 2020.  That’s 25.35% of the population.

 

29,859,317 people still need to be tested in California, that’s 74.64% of the state’s population. It’ll take 328 days to test everyone in California at the current rate of testing.

 

6.29% of the people tested for Covid-19 in California have tested positive. That’s 638,831 people.

 

93.70% of the people tested for Covid-19 in California have tested negative.  That’s 9,501,852 people.

 

California has 11,523 deaths from Covid-19, which is 1.80% of those who have tested positive.

 

California hospitals report under 8/10th’s of 1% of the people who have tested positive are hospitalized, which is 5,058 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the hospitals. 1,590 of those patients are in ICU.  The State also reports having another 1,421 “Suspected Covid-19” patients.

 

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Riverside County has tested 471,011 people for Covid-19 since March 2020, out of a population of 2.5 million.  That’s 18.84% of the County’s population.

 

2,028,989 people still need to be tested in the county, that’s 81.15% of the county’s population. The County tested 4,034 people on Tuesday, August 18th, 2020. At that rate of testing, it will take the county 502 days to test every resident.

 

10.32% of the people tested for Covid-19 have tested positive.

That’s 48,630 people.

 

89.67% of the people tested for Covid-19 in Riverside County have tested negative.  That’s 422,381 people.

 

Of the 48,630 people who have tested positive in Riverside County,

53.44% of them, 25,992, have fully recovered.

44.04% of them, 21,420 are at home recovering and are not getting any medical assistance. Together, that’s 97.48% of all the positive cases.

 

Well Under 1%, 6/10ths of 1%, of the people who have tested positive so far in Riverside County, 301 people, remain hospitalized, and 97 of them are in Intensive Care.

 

1.88% of the people who have tested positive so far in Riverside County, 917 people, have died from Covid-19. 288 of those deaths have been in the Coachella Valley, which is 31.40% of the County’s total. 260deaths in cities, 28 deaths in unincorporated areas…8 in Mecca,  1 in Vista Santa Rosa, 3 in Bermuda Dunes, 5 in Garnet, 2 in Desert Palms, 4 in Desert Edge, 3 in Oasis, 1 in Sky Valley and 1 in North Shore.

63% of the deaths in Riverside County were among people with underlying health conditions…diabetes, hypertension, COPD.

 

12,723 positive cases have been recorded in the Coachella Valley since March 8th 2020, when the testing and counting began. The Coachella Valley has accounted for 26.16% of the positive cases in Riverside County.

 

1,687 cases are in unincorporated areas of the desert;

(Mecca 396 cases, Thermal 156 cases, Oasis 298,  North Shore 113 cases, Bermuda Dunes 119 cases, Thousand Palms 194 cases, Vista Santa Rosa 77 cases, Garnet 199 cases, Desert Palms 43 cases, Desert Edge 50 cases, and Sky Valley 42 cases)

 

11,036 cases are in cities in the desert:

938 cases in Palm Springs, 42 dead

219 cases in Rancho Mirage, 19 dead

900 cases in Palm Desert, 47 dead

1,701 cases in Cathedral City, 27 dead

2,331 cases in Coachella,  22 dead

3,235 cases in Indio, 65 dead

698 cases in La Quinta, 16 dead

972 cases in Desert Hot Springs, 20 dead

42 in Indian Wells, 2 deaths

21 cases in Idyllwild/Pine Cove, 1 death

44 cases in Cabazon, 1 dead

 

In Riverside County:

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

4 deaths among people aged 18-24.

39 deaths among people aged 25-44

235 deaths among people aged 45-64

441 deaths among people aged 64-84

198 deaths among people aged 85 and up.

 

545 deaths are men, 371 are women, and 0 are transgender, non-binary or intersex according to county officials

 

 

Riverside County has 3,098 cases in nursing homes, with 1,917 cases among patients, and 1,181 cases among staff. The overwhelming majority of nursing home cases, 889 cases, are in the City of Riverside.

In Coachella Valley nursing facilities, there have been 190 cases in Palm Desert, 132 in Palm Springs, 75 in Rancho Mirage, 55 in Indio, 53 in La Quinta,

 

Riverside County is no longer providing capacity statistics for the hospitals in the county.

 

The federal temporary hospitals built at the County Fairgrounds in Indio and the old Sears Store in Riverside months ago, are still equipped and ready to be used.   They are not currently being used because they are not needed at this time.   They are not staffed right now because there are no patients there.

 

If they are needed, they can quickly be staffed and put into operation.

 

All testing is free to the patient being tested. Be patient, you might have to wait a while to get an appointment.

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.

 

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 expanding its COVID-19 testing capacity across California too.

 

Testing will be available by appointment for people 18 years of age or older, regardless of whether the person is experiencing symptoms, according to Rite Aid. Results are expected in three to five days, a company spokesperson said.

 

The Riverside County locations providing testing starting Thursday, July 16th, 2020 are:

— 910 W. Ontario Ave., Corona;

— 1688 N. Perris Blvd., Perris;

— 16491 Lakeshore Drive, Lake Elsinore;

— 8015 Limonite Ave., Riverside;

— 616 E. Hobson Way, Blythe;

— 260 N. Sanderson Ave., Hemet;

— 12900 Palm Drive, Desert Hot Springs;

— 806 Ramsey St., Banning;

— 1180 N. State St., San Jacinto;

— 894 Oak Valley Parkway, Suite B, Beaumont;

— 42021 E. Florida Ave., Hemet;

— 51101 Cesar Chavez St., Coachella;

— 47985 Monroe St., Building A, Indio; 

— 1660 E. First St., Beaumont.

 

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, be at least 18 and pre-register online at www.riteaid.com to schedule an appointment.

 

Photo:

Coronavirus particle, illustration. Different strains of coronavirus are responsible for diseases such as the common cold, gastroenteritis, and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). A new coronavirus (2019-CoV) emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The virus causes a mild respiratory illness that can develop into pneumonia and be fatal in some cases. The coronaviruses take their name from their crown (corona) of surface proteins, which are used to attach and penetrate their host cells. Once inside the cells, the particles use the cells’ machinery to make more copies of the virus.

 

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