Pleasanton entered the week still leading the Tri-Valley in confirmed patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 47 cases, as of the latest update from the Alameda County Public Health Department on Monday morning.
That represented an increase of four cases compared to one week earlier, according to the ACPHD dashboard.
Neighboring Livermore and Dublin also saw their totals go up slightly over the week, to 30 cases and 21 cases, respectively, according to ACPHD. The Dublin count does not include the 32 cases recorded at the Santa Rita Jail.
The Tri-Valley breakdown also includes 28 in San Ramon, 20 in Danville and 17 in Alamo, according to Contra Costa Health Services.
The overall total in Alameda County was 1,191 confirmed cases, including 42 deaths on record caused by COVID-19, as of Monday morning.
Oakland is the city with the most confirmed cases in the county at 311, followed by Hayward at 234. A total of 150 cases involve residents in unincorporated Alameda County (though which unincorporated town is not specified).
In Contra Costa County, there are 707 confirmed cases and 22 deaths on record from COVID-19. CCHS reports 35 patients are currently hospitalized from the virus, and overall 9,572 patients have been tested for COVID-19.
To learn more, visit the ACPHD coronavirus dashboard online and the CCHS online dashboard.
Comments
Livermore
on Apr 21, 2020 at 12:56 pm
on Apr 21, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Will you be posting the individual facilities with COVID-19 cases as the State
DPH has done?
Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 21, 2020 at 2:41 pm
on Apr 21, 2020 at 2:41 pm
Testing doesn’t help businesses and is backward focused, given that the person was exposed in the past and even contact tracing is going back in time. Therefore, number of cases “going down” to “open up” is ridiculous with a virus that has wide community spread which this virus does. It’s common sense that the more tests you do, the more cases you will have. Our hospitalizations have decreased, and the Mayor needs to put out a plan to OPEN up ASAP. The safest way to open up more businesses and industries is to assume AlLL citizens are positive, and require social distancing and masks in facilities with regular sanitation and possibly temp checks. Give the power back to business owners to incorporate the safety measures, and then LET them open for business.
Downtown
on Apr 21, 2020 at 4:50 pm
on Apr 21, 2020 at 4:50 pm
History is not going to be kind to this guy....:
"Anti-malarial drug Trump touted is linked to higher rates of death in VA coronavirus patients, study says" - SFGate, 4/21/20
Pleasanton Meadows
on Apr 21, 2020 at 4:57 pm
on Apr 21, 2020 at 4:57 pm
Medicines were taken by choice, nothing was forced on any patient.
Patient new the risks. Cause of death is not from medications.
Bridle Creek
on Apr 21, 2020 at 7:03 pm
on Apr 21, 2020 at 7:03 pm
"History is not going to be kind to this guy....:"
From the article:
"The results were from an observational study of outcomes and were not part of a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, which is the gold standard for testing drugs."
You claim to be a scientist, and then not note this important opinion on the test method?
Things that make you go hmmmm....
Dan
Downtown
on Apr 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
on Apr 21, 2020 at 8:25 pm
@DKSHK
A clinical trial involving a blind test including a placebo would have been even better, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this appears to have been a fairly thorough study which included a control group that was not treated with any drugs. That's much more than what individual doctors with no training at all in performing clinical trials such as the celebrated Dr. Vladimir Zelenko did in their hydroxychloroquine tests on coronavirus patients, but strangely neither you nor Donald Trump nor anyone else among the right-wing seems to have any problems with the fact that those "pro-hydroxychloroquine" doctors didn't perform randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials and didn't even pretend to be doing rigorous, professional studies. Nor did Donald Trump or Dr. Vladimir Zelenko address the serious side effect of enhanced risk of cardiac arrest seen in approximately 10% of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine.
The truth about the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of hydroxychloroquine against coronavirus will become more and more apparent as further studies come out. If you want to double-down on your faith that Donald Trump is right about hydroxychloroquine being some kind of miracle cure for coronavirus, you go right ahead.
Bridle Creek
on Apr 22, 2020 at 9:00 am
on Apr 22, 2020 at 9:00 am
Mr. Scientist,
It was "observational".
Geez.
As a mere trained "engineer", even I know a crock when I see one.
Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Apr 22, 2020 at 9:14 am
on Apr 22, 2020 at 9:14 am
I worked with numerous drugs...Plaquenil (aka Hydrochloroquine) has been used by Rheumatology MDs for decades for inflammation, and it’s safety profile is approved by FDA and is well documented. Anecdotal VA observations are dismissed by the medical community because they are already a sick population with many pre-existing conditions.
Downtown
on Apr 22, 2020 at 10:13 am
on Apr 22, 2020 at 10:13 am
@DKHSK
Even Trump and Fox News are backing off of their previous enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a cure for coronavirus. I guess that you didn't get the memo.
"Trump and Fox News suggest caution on hydroxychloroquine studies (after one undercuts their case)" - SFGate
"Trump Dodges on Hydroxychloroquine After Study Raises Red Flags" - TheDailyBeast
"Trump tones down the hydroxychloroquine hype" - Politico
"Trump and Fox News stop hyping hydroxychloroquine as NIH warns against using it to treat COVID-19" - Salon
- "The president and the network suddenly stopped hyping the drug treatment after mentioning it hundreds of times"
Downtown
on Apr 22, 2020 at 10:26 am
on Apr 22, 2020 at 10:26 am
@DKHSK wrote "It was "observational". Geez. As a mere trained "engineer", even I know a crock when I see one."
The studies by "pro-hydroxychloroquine" doctors such as the celebrated Dr. Vladimir Zelenko were observational studies.
Mohr Elementary School
on Apr 22, 2020 at 11:03 am
on Apr 22, 2020 at 11:03 am
Is it just me or the case by city is not loading from county dashboard? It seems like our number is stabilized, which is good news.
Bridle Creek
on Apr 22, 2020 at 6:04 pm
on Apr 22, 2020 at 6:04 pm
"The studies by "pro-hydroxychloroquine" doctors such as the celebrated Dr. Vladimir Zelenko were observational studies."
This study is probably the worst of study designs. Retrospective analysis, coupled with no stated methods as to how patients were assigned one of three treatment arms.
Its absolutely preposterous and as an alleged "scientist", you should know better.
Just stop! You have no idea what you're talking about.
Dan
Bridle Creek
on Apr 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm
on Apr 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm
And by the way, ALL of the observed were sick enough to be admitted to the hospital in the first place.
No small data point there, eh?
Dan
Bridle Creek
on Apr 22, 2020 at 6:09 pm
on Apr 22, 2020 at 6:09 pm
Final quote from the study:
"It may be proven true in subsequent, prospective trials, we should understand proponents of the use of hydroxychloroquine in various combinations with other drugs all suggest that the drug is most effective when USED EARLY, well before patients "qualify" for hospitalization.”
Emphasis mine.
Please DO YOUR RESEARCH, Mr Scientist.
Dan