Photo by Mike Damron
Above: A woman sits outside wearing a face-covering near the Del Mar city hall, Aug. 4, 2020.
As San Diego County continues to await guidance on the effects of its removal from the state's coronavirus watchlist, public health officials reported 232 new COVID-19 cases and six additional deaths, raising the region's totals to 35,608 cases and 644 deaths.
Of the 9,865 tests reported Wednesday, 2% returned positive, lowering the 14-day rolling average to 4%, well below the state's 8% guideline. The seven-day rolling average of tests is 8,061 daily.
Of the total positive cases in the county, 2,930 — or 8.2% — have required hospitalization since the pandemic began, and 726 — or 2% — were admitted to an intensive care unit. The current number of COVID-19 patients in the hospital dropped to 274 Thursday, with 103 of those in the ICU.
County health officials reported three new community outbreaks Wednesday, bringing the number of outbreaks in the past week to 16.
The county continues to keep confidential the names and locations of businesses with outbreaks.
"Avoiding businesses where an outbreak has been identified does not lower your risk of infection," said Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county's public health officer. "If there was a specific threat to public health, we would release that information."
The number of community outbreaks remains well above the county's goal of fewer than seven in a seven-day span, although Wooten thanked the public for adhering to health guidelines to significantly reduce those numbers. A community setting outbreak is defined as three or more COVID-19 cases in a setting and in people of different households in the past 14 days.
The county was officially removed from the state's monitoring list Tuesday, setting in motion a 14-day countdown that could see K-12 students back in the classroom as soon as Sept. 1, depending on the decisions of individual school districts. However, what that means for businesses was still unclear.
The county continued to make progress Thursday, with a case rate of 83.8 positive COVID-19 tests per 100,000 people, below the state's 100 per 100,000 guideline.
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