With Easter weekend ahead, the County Human Services and Health Agency wants to remind San Diegans to celebrate the holiday safely. While the number of COVID-19 cases remains well below the December and January highs, it is too early to let the guard down and attend meetings without certain precautions.
Unvaccinated San Diego residents should continue to meet current California Department of Public Health guidelines and keep meetings small and short. Meetings should not include more than three households in total.
Attendees should face each other when not eating and follow social distancing practices. Although indoor meetings are allowed, outdoor meetings are recommended.
According to the new Guidance on Disease Control and Prevention Centers, those who are fully vaccinated can begin to relax restrictions and attend meetings with other people who are fully vaccinated.
“While the new CDC guidelines state that it is safe for fully vaccinated people to gather indoors or outdoors without covering their faces, we know that at this time only one in five San Diego residents 16 years and older is fully immunized, ”said Wilma J. Wooten, MD, MPH, county public health officer. “I encourage everyone to follow best practices for their situation to celebrate this holiday safely and stay on track to get back to all the activities we enjoy.”
Easter Tests and Vaccines
Several county testing and vaccination sites will stop on Sunday for Easter break. The following places will remain open, with modified schedules:
- Non-appointment test sites at Cal State San Marcos and the Tubman Chávez Community Center will be open with condensed hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- The North Coastal Live Well Center, Lemon Grove Community Center and South Region Public Health Center vaccination sites will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center and Borderview YMCA vaccine sites will be closed for Easter.
Vaccination progress:
- Nearly 1.89 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the region and nearly 1.76 million have been recorded when administered. This number includes both county residents and those working in San Diego County.
- Of those vaccinated to date, more than 586,000 county residents, or 21.8% of San Diego residents age 16 and older, are fully immunized.
- Overall, more than 975,000 county residents have received at least one shot of the two-dose vaccine. It is 36.3% of those eligible.
- Those who receive the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine are added to the total of fully vaccinated San Diegoans.
- The difference between the doses administered and those used in a vaccination represents approximately what is expected to be administered in the next seven days and the doses that are yet to be entered into the registration system.
- You can find more information about vaccine distribution on the county vaccine board. For information on currently eligible groups and vaccination opportunities, visit www.vaccinationsuperstation.com.
Status metrics:
- The adjusted case rate calculated by the state of San Diego County is currently 4.9 cases per 100,000 residents. The county is on the red level.
- Currently, the test positive percentage is 2.1%, placing the county at level 3 or Orange level.
- The county’s health equity metric, which analyzes test positivity for areas with the lowest health conditions, is 2.7% and is also at the Orange or Tier 3 level.
- Although two of the three metrics rate the county for the Orange or Tier 3 level, the state assigns the counties to the most restrictive level.
- The California Department of Public Health evaluates counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6th.
Community configuration outbreaks:
- Two new community outbreaks were confirmed on April 1, one in a restaurant / bar and one in a commercial establishment.
- In the last seven days (March 26 to April 1), ten outbreaks of the community were confirmed.
- The number of community outbreaks stays above the trigger for seven or more days.
- An outbreak of community environment is defined as three or more cases of COVID-19 in one environment and in people from different households during the last 14 days.
Tests:
- On April 1, 18,435 tests were reported in the county and the percentage of new positive cases was 3%.
- The average percentage of 14-day positive cases is 2.3%. The target is less than 8.0%.
- The average daily 7-day test is 12,500.
Cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions:
- As of March 31, 496 COVID-19 cases had been reported to the County. The total for the region is now 271,035.
- 14,855, or 5.5% of all cases, required hospitalization.
- 1,651 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.
Deaths:
- 13 new deaths were recorded for COVID-19 on April 1st. The total for the region is 3,568.
- Four women and nine men died between January 11 and April 1.
- Of the people who died, three were 80 or older, seven were 70, two were 60 and one was 50.
- They all had underlying medical conditions.
More information:
The most detailed data summaries can be found at The county coronavirus-sd.com website they are updated around 5pm daily.