San Bernardino County passes 200,000 coronavirus case mark

January 4, 2021 LawsonRealtyGroup Real Estate News 0



San Bernardino County now has more than 200,000 cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

As of Jan. 4, there are 203,309 cumulative coronavirus cases in San Bernardino County, up 18,355 from a week before. In comparison, the county hit a record of 38,875 new cases in one week on Dec. 22. Similarly, as of Jan. 3, there are 1,733 people hospitalized in the county with COVID-19, including 343 in the intensive care unit. Both of those are down from records of 1,770 hospitalized on Dec. 29 and 355 in the intensive care unit as of Jan. 2. (A total of 188,436 county residents are considered recovered from the coronavirus since the pandemic began.)

But experts are bracing for a post-holiday surge in new cases across Southern California.

“I think we’re in for tough sledding, honestly,” UC Irvine epidemiologist Andrew Noymer said last week. “I can’t tell you when things are going to crest and then finally ebb, but I can tell you with absolute certainty that January is going to be a difficult month.”

Contributing to that expected rise: Two cases of a new, more contagious strain of the COVID-19 virus that first surfaced in December in the United Kingdom have appeared in San Bernardino County. Experts say COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out should prevent infection by the new strain as well.

“The new strain may be more contagious, but it’s not more severe,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a public address Jan. 4.

Newsom announced that state public health teams had been deployed to Riverside and San Bernardino counties to back up local health workers as area hospitals have become increasingly over-stretched battling the coronavirus.

San Bernardino County has the second-highest coronavirus deaths in California and the sixth-highest number of deaths of any county in the nation, according to Johns Hopkins University. Riverside County is right behind it, with the third-highest deaths in California and eighth-highest deaths by county in the nation. Los Angeles County tops both state and national rankings.

Here are the latest numbers, according to county and state public health officials:

San Bernardino County

Confirmed cases: 203,309 total, up 8,932 from Thursday, averaging 2,622 reported per day in the past week

Deaths: 1,449 total, up 4 from Thursday, averaging 1.7 reported per day in the past week

Hospital survey: 1,733 confirmed and 76 suspected patients hospitalized Sunday, including 343 confirmed and 7 suspected patients in the ICU, with 24 of 25 facilities reporting. The number of confirmed patients is up 4.7% from a week earlier.

People tested: 1,735,241 total, up 68,348 from Thursday, averaging 15,437 reported per day in the past week

Resolved cases (estimate): 188,436 total, up 15,751 from Thursday, averaging 3,891 per day in the past week

Metrics tracked by the state:

    • ICU availability: 0.0% across Southern California
    • New cases per day per 100,000 residents: 165.5
    • Case rate adjusted for testing volume: 82.8
    • Test positivity rate: 23.0% (26.8% in socioeconomically challenged neighborhoods)
    • What that means: Southern California is under a stay-home order because of the low ICU availability. When that is lifted, San Bernardino County will return to a color-coded tier with restrictions based on the other metrics.

To see a map and list of cases, deaths and per-capita rates by community, click here.

Here is a look at how the county’s numbers have changed each day:

Staff writer Nikie Johnson contributed to this story.



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