Riverside County, Coachella Valley See Increase In Active Covid-19 Cases

California has tested 17,293,139 of its 40 million people for the Covid-19 virus, since March 2020.  That’s 43.23% of the population.

 

22,706,861 people still need to be tested in California, that’s 56.76% of the state’s population.

 

5.07% of the people tested for Covid-19 in California have tested positive. That’s 877,784 people.

 

94.92% of the people tested for Covid-19 in California have tested negative.  That’s 16,415,355 people.

 

California has 17,027 deaths from Covid-19, which is 1.93% of those who have tested positive.

 

California hospitals report 3/10th’s of 1% of the people who have tested positive, are hospitalized, which is 3,077 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the hospitals. 763 of those patients are in ICU.

 

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At 10 a-m on Tuesday October 20th, The State of California pushed Riverside County back into the restrictive Purple Tier, for Widespread risk of Covid-19 transmission.

 

Riverside County has tested 772,027 people for Covid-19 since March 2020, out of a population of 2.5 million.  That’s 30.88% of the County’s population.

 

1,727,973 people still need to be tested in the county, that’s 69.11% of the county’s population.

 

8.42% of the people tested for Covid-19 in Riverside County have tested positive. That’s 65,056 people.

 

91.57% of the people tested for Covid-19 in Riverside County have tested negative.  That’s 706,971 people.

 

Of the 65,056  people who have tested positive in Riverside County,

89.85% of them, 58,458, have fully recovered.

7.92% of them, 5,156 are at home recovering.

Together, that’s 97.77% of all the positive cases.  388 new cases in the county in the past 24 hours.

 

2/10th’s of 1%, of the people who have tested positive so far in Riverside County, 167 people, remain hospitalized, and 37 of them are in Intensive Care.

 

2% of the people who have tested positive so far in Riverside County, 1,275 people, have died from Covid-19.

360 of those deaths have been in the Coachella Valley, which is 28.23% of the County’s total. 325 deaths in cities, 35 deaths in unincorporated areas…9 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 and 1 in North Shore.

Of the 1,275 people who have died from Covid-19 in Riverside County, 886 of them have been over 65; 324 have been between 45 and 64.

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15,574 positive cases have been recorded in the Coachella Valley since March 8th 2020, when the testing and counting began. 93% of them, 14,484  people, have recovered. There are 1,090 active cases in the desert on 10/22/2020. 59 new cases in the past 24 hours.

 

2,080 cases are in unincorporated areas of the desert since March 2020.

(Mecca 479 cases, Thermal 192 cases, Oasis 352 cases,  North Shore 149 cases, Bermuda Dunes 147 cases, Thousand Palms 247 cases, Vista Santa Rosa 103 cases, Garnet 239 cases, Desert Palms 48 cases, Desert Edge 74 cases, and Sky Valley 50 cases). 13 new cases in the past 24 hours

 

93.26%, or 1,940 people have recovered from Covid-19 in unincorporated areas:

Mecca 445, Thermal 185, Oasis 331, North Shore 137, Bermuda Dunes 135,

Thousand Palms 234, Vista Santa Rosa 99, Garnet 223, Desert Palms 40, Desert Edge 66, Sky Valley 45.  Only 140 active cases of Covid-19 in unincorporated areas as of 10/22/2020.

 

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13,494 Covid-19 cases reported in cities in the desert, since March 2020.

92.95% of those people, 12,544, people have recovered. Only 950 active Covid-19 cases in cities in the Coachella Valley as of 10/22/2020.

46 new cases in the past 24 hours.

 

2,049 cases in Cathedral City,     34 dead       1,939 people have recovered

2,851 cases in Coachella,              29 dead        2,703 people have recovered

1,187 cases in Desert Hot Springs,  28 dead,  1,108 people recovered

53 in Indian Wells,                   4 dead               47 people have recovered

3,930 cases in Indio,               76 dead              3,680 people have recovered

888 cases in La Quinta,           19 dead            818 people have recovered

1,111 cases in Palm Desert,       58 dead           987 people have recovered

1,163 cases in Palm Springs,       53 dead        1,036 people have recovered

262 cases in Rancho Mirage,       24 dead       226 people have recovered

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Elsewhere:

23 cases in Idyllwild/Pine Cove, 1 death;   21 people have recovered

65 cases in Cabazon, 1 dead;                62 people have recovered

 

 

In Riverside County:

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

7 deaths among people aged 18-24.

58 deaths among people aged 25-44

324 deaths among people aged 45-64

604 deaths among people aged 65-84

282 deaths among people aged 85 and up.

 

745 deaths are men, 525 are women, and 0 are transgender, non-binary or intersex according to county officials

 

Riverside County has 3,475 cases in nursing homes, with 2,154 cases among patients, and 1,321 cases among staff. The overwhelming majority of nursing home cases, 944 cases, are in the City of Riverside.

In Coachella Valley nursing facilities, there have been 192 cases in Palm Desert, 138 in Palm Springs, 77 in Rancho Mirage, 57 in Indio, 53 in La Quinta,

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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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