This evening’s Mendocino County Public Health Dashboard update brought sad news of a sixth death in the county, which will make for a total of four deaths associated with Fort Bragg’s Sherwood Oaks Health Center. Along with the announcement of the 6th death, 8 more positive cases have been identified.
Whenever Mendocino County Public Health publishes a new COVID-19 infographic, MendoFever will compare and contrast the data with the previous infographic in hopes to shed light on trends associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Mendocino County.
?Most significant information gained from this evening’s infographic update provided by Mendocino County Public Health:
?Mendocino County’s 6th death was announced with this evening’s dashboard update. According to County Executive Office’s Sarah Dukett, the individual who passed was a resident of the Sherwood Oaks Health Center in Fort Bragg. This means that there have been four deaths of residents at that facility.
? Nearly 70% of the County’s cases originate in the Ukiah Valley.
?To address concerns that tourists are bringing in the virus, the data indicates that 40% of cases are sourced from “close contact” and only 7% are associated with “work/out of county travel”
?Analysis of that data represented in today’s infographic with yesterday. No longer will MendoFever simply describe the numbers that change within each category, but the overall percentage:
??????Demographics: 60% (up by 1%) of total cases are associated with the Hispanic/Latino community; 16% are associated with the White/Non-Hispanic community, 7% are associated with the Native American/Alaskan native community, 1% are associated with the African American community, .4% of cases are associated with the Asian Community, 2% are “other”, and 14% are “unreported.
??Age Ranges: 4% of cases are associated with the “0-5” age range, 6% of cases are from the “6-12” age range, 9% of cases are associated with the “13-18” age range, 32% of cases are associated with the “19-34” age range, 23% of cases are associated with the “35-49” age range, 14% of cases are from the “50-64” age range, and 12% are from the 65+ age range.
?? Gender of Infected: 49% of the infected are men 51% are women.
?Source of Infection: 40% of the county’s cases are associated with “close contact”, 7% of cases are associated with “work/out of county travel”, 11% of cases are associated with “community spread”, and 42% are “under investigation”.
?Region of Cases: 69% of cases originate in the Ukiah Valley, 4% are from the South County, 13% are from the North County, 1% of cases originate on the South Coast, and 12% originate on the North Coast.
????Status of Patients: Four more patients have entered isolation for a total of 122. There remains 4 patients in the hospital. There remains only one patient in the intensive care unit. A sixth death was announced today Mendocino County and there is a total of 257 cases. There are a total of 127 active COVID-19 cases.
?Testing: Comparing and contrasting testing numbers suggests the majority of today’s 8 new cases were discovered within commercial labs. The amount of tests pending is still 1,958. The overall positivity rate of those tests remains at 1.6%. .3% of Mendocino County’s population has tested positive for COVID-19
