This morning’s report for the Monterey County DPH shows 29 cases reported yesterday. That’s much lower than we’ve been seeing for the last few days, but the 7-day moving average is still near its all-time high. The big surprise was the reporting of 19 new cases in the “other” zip code category in the Monterey Peninsula and Big Sur. That area had previously reported only 12 cases over the entire epidemic, so yesterday’s report amounted to a 160% increase in a single day! [Added at noon: the DPH has said that they were correcting an earlier error, and have added two zip codes, 93923, with 9 cases, and 93950, with 10 cases, both cumulative. I have no idea when those cases were reported. 93923 is Carmel and Carmel Highlands. 93950 is Pacific Grove.]
The doubling time is under 3 weeks:
The 7-day average positivity rate is now up to levels not seen since the start of the epidemic:
Statewide, the spike in cases continues:
Hospitalizations continue to climb:
Deaths are holding steady:
We are getting better at keeping people out of the hospitals, or maybe it’s the demographics skewing younger now that’s doing that:
Both Monterey County and California continue to outpace the country as a whole, when normalized for population:
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