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The county released this second round of demographics data on Monday evening. The information is updated weekly.
The demographics breakdowns are based on the 96 cases Public Health reported on Monday.
Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace told Lake County News that the county is having “a steady flow of new cases,” some of them from contacts with people connected to a farmworker outbreak, although he added those numbers are decreasing.
“There are some other cases emerging that don’t seem to be connected to that outbreak, most of these do seem connected to other cases that have been identified either locally or others from out of the area,” Pace said. “We don’t seem to have widespread community transmission, but there have been several cases that we have not been able to identify the source case.”
The new data shows that the majority of Lake County’s COVID-19 cases continue to be traced to close contacts to a known case, including households, family and friends with a recognized significant contact.
Close contacts account for 55 of the current cases, followed by out of county contacts to a known case or travel, 15; under investigation, 15; other/unknown, five; presumed occupational contact, four; and congregate living situations – in this case, the Lake County Jail – two.
Regarding case locations, the information is not broken down by cities and towns, but by supervisorial districts.
The largest number of cases continues to be in District 2, which covers Clearlake, where 42 cases have been reported. District 3, which covers the Northshore, has 21 cases; District 4, which covers the greater Lakeport and north Lakeport areas, has 14; District 5, which includes the greater Kelseyville area, as well as Loch Lomond and Cobb, has 12 cases; five are in District 1, which covers the south county; and two cases are listed as “unknown.”
The leading age range continues to be the 18 to 49 group, with 62 cases, followed by the 50 to 64 group, with 17 cases; birth to 17, 11 cases; and age 65 and above, six cases.
There continue to be more cases in males than females, which follows the statewide trend. Fifty-one of Lake County’s COVID-19 cases are males, while 45 are females.
The next set of data will be released on Tuesday, July 14, Public Health reported.
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MATH will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 9, via Zoom. The meeting is open to the public.
To join the Zoom meeting click on this link; the meeting ID is 872 2935 2332 or call in at 888-788-0099.
Chair Tom Darms said the meetings will be held via Zoom until further notice.
On the agenda, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., is the update from District 1 Supervisor Moke Simon.
At 7:50 p.m., Kirsty Shelton of MAHA Developments will offer the latest on the Guenoc Project, a major resort and residential development set to go before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
At 8:25 p.m., the group will discuss August agenda items, including changing MATH to a town hall format, which would result in no county oversight.
The MATH Board includes Chair Tom Darms, Vice Chair Sally Peterson, Secretary Paul Baker, and at-large members Rosemary Cordova and Lisa Kaplan.
MATH – established by resolution of the Lake County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 12, 2006 – is a municipal advisory council serving the residents of Anderson Springs, Cobb, Coyote Valley (including Hidden Valley Lake), Long Valley and Middletown.
Meetings are subject to videotaping.
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The committee, or LEDAC, will meet telephonically from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, July 8.
The meeting is open to the public.
If you would like to speak on an agenda item, you can access the meeting remotely by joining from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Android device. Please register here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
If you prefer to use your phone, you must select "Use Telephone" after joining the webinar and call in using these numbers: United States (toll-free): 877-568-4108; United States: +1 (213) 929-4221; Access Code: 579-521-917.
On the agenda is an update on city projects and activities from city staff, including the new lakefront park, waterfront parking rehabilitation, Second Street rehabilitation and an update on the work of Retail Coach, the city’s retail recruitment consulting firm.
Dennis Rollins, chair of the Westside Community Park Committee, will present information about park development, current and future.
There also will be member reports from the Lakeport Main Street Association, Lake County Chamber of Commerce, CareerPoint Lake, Mendocino College/Lake Center and Lake Economic Development Corp./BARC, and citizen input.
The group’s next quarterly meeting will take place on Sept. 9, in a format that’s to be announced.
LEDAC advocates for a strong and positive Lakeport business community and acts as a conduit between the city and the community for communicating the goals, activities and progress of Lakeport’s economic and business programs.
Members are Chair Wilda Shock and Vice Chair Denise Combs, Secretary Terre Logsdon, Maureen Brasier, Candy De Los Santos, Bill Eaton, Melissa Fulton, Pam Harpster, Andy Lucas, Laura Sammel and Amanda Xu. City staff who are members include City Manager Margaret Silveira and Community Development Director Kevin Ingram.
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Lake County’s COVID-19 cases totaled 96 on Monday morning, up from 87 reported on Saturday, according to Lake County Public Health.
Public Health Officer Dr. Gary Pace did not immediately respond to a request from Lake County News for more information about the newly reported cases.
Of Lake County’s 96 cases, 18 are active, of which four are hospitalized, Public Health reported.
Public Health said 77 local cases are recovered. The agency reported Lake County’s first death attributed to the virus last week.
To date, 5,184 COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Lake County, with the results of 491 of those cases pending, Public Health said.
On Monday, the California Department of Public Health reported that California has 271,684 confirmed cases to date, with 6,337 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
As of July 5, local health departments have reported 16,175 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 94 deaths statewide, the California Department of Public Health said.
The agency also said that California's positivity rate – a key indicator of community spread – is trending upward in the 14-day average, as are hospitalization rates.
In a Monday afternoon briefing, Gov. Gavin Newsom said California is seeing infection rates similar to those at the start of the pandemic.
While death rates appear to be lower, Newsom cautioned that hospitalizations, ICU numbers and mortality are lagging indicators.
The California Department of Public Health reported on Monday that more than 4,793,353 tests have been conducted statewide for the virus.
“As testing capacity continues to increase across the state, an increase in the number of positive cases has been expected – increasing the importance of positivity rates to find signs of community spread,” the state reported.
Over the weekend, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly urged laboratories in California to prioritize testing turnaround for individuals who are most at risk of spreading the virus to others.
Ghaly said the state, working with public and private partners, has increased access to diagnostic testing over the past six months, with the capacity rising from 2,000 tests per day to 100,000 per day in a few months’ time.
However, Ghaly said that, as more states begin to scale their testing capabilities, new constraints are materializing within the supply chain. “Simultaneously laboratories are becoming overwhelmed with high numbers of specimens, slowing down processing timelines.”
Those delays, said Ghaley, will present “significant challenges” in the ability to care for people in the hospital where testing helps make appropriate treatment decisions and in the ability to appropriately isolate those who are sick in order to box in the virus and cut transmission rates.
Due to these new limitations, Ghaly said California is recommending that laboratories prioritize the processing of specimens of individuals who are COVID-19 symptomatic and those who are hospitalized or in long-term care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities such as veterans homes, assisted living facilities such as residential care facilities for the elderly, and for specimens of patients in institutional settings, including prisons and jails, in order to timely implement appropriate interventions to mitigate the spread of the virus within the facility.
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