Riverside County’s headache scenario in which more than 1,200 die from the novel coronavirus by early May has been avoided for now, health authorities said Wednesday, April 15.
The most recent projections show far fewer cases and deaths as authorities credited the public for taking actions to restrict COVID-19’s spread. Locals’ sacrifices also helped extend the county’s doubling rate– the rate by which cases double– from approximately 4.6 to 4.7 days to more than 7 days, officials said.
” This is very encouraging because it indicates that we might be going into a period of slowing which we may have actually avoided a significant healthcare facility rise,” Dr. Geoffrey Leung, of the county-run Riverside University Health System, said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference.” … We are carefully optimistic that we are entering a slowing phase.”
Manager V. Manuel Perez thanked county authorities and the general public, for their efforts to restrict COVID-19’s spread.
” We are in a much better place than where we were a week earlier, and a better place today than what we anticipated we would be, and that’s due to the fact that of everybody that’s coming together,” he said at the news conference.
Still, the variety of Riverside County cases passed 2,000 for the very first time. Numbers launched Wednesday program 2,105 coronavirus cases, up 144 from Tuesday, April 14, when the county saw its greatest one-day increase in COVID-19 cases. Fifty-four county locals have actually died, up four from the day before.
Four-hundred-sixteen have actually officially recovered from COVID-19– up 40 from Tuesday– meaning they’re no longer in seclusion, reveal no symptoms and their public health cases have been closed. Two-hundred thirty-five have actually been hospitalized by COVID-19 with 64 in intensive care, according to the county public health site.
Nevertheless, the county is no longer forecasting more than 65,000 cases and more than 1,200 deaths by early Might that would put hospitals and ventilators at complete capacity by the end of this month. Rather, authorities Wednesday detailed 4 circumstances, from 3,250 cases and 62 deaths on the low end to 13,108 cases and 249 deaths on the high end.
Which situation unfolds depend upon how well county citizens wash their hands, stay at house, leave your home only for important factors and practice social distancing and covering their noses and mouths while in public.
Riverside County, like the rest of California, is under a statewide stay-at-home order, while the county’s health officer has actually released a comprehensive restriction on gatherings and needed residents to cover their noses and mouths when outside the home.
Less cases indicates less pressure on a nationwide and local healthcare system that “resembled your house built on the sand,” said Dr. Michael Mesisca of the county healthcare network, describing the biblical parable of the smart guy who developed his home on rock and the silly man who built his home on sand, just to see it fall.
” There were weddings that were canceled, funerals that weren’t had, in order to bring together the sacrifices to push that storm away while we had that chance to take our health care system from the sand and put it up onto a rock.”
The county’s 17 severe care health centers have actually worked to expand capacity, train medical staff, purchase devices and cancel optional treatments to prepare for the rise, Mesisca stated. In addition, 2 field medical facilities have actually been set up in Indio and Riverside.
Today, “the numbers continue to increase. They’re just not increasing at an exponential point,” Mesisca stated, including the county is on track for a healthcare facility rise comparable to the H1N1 flu break out that worried healthcare facilities, “but not nearly to the point where we ‘d have to extend our care beyond the hospital walls.”
While admiring the bright side and homeowners’ sacrifices, officials stated the public must stay the course to keep the coronavirus in check.
” That storm is temporarily far from us, and in fact, we’re seeing it in a number of places, in our congregate living environments, for instance,” Mesisca said.
Countywide, at least 84 clients and 67 staff members at proficient nursing and long-lasting care centers have tested favorable for COVID-19 And the county has deployed four special groups to inform assisted living home personnel on coronavirus avoidance and to distribute individual protective devices.
As for when county health orders will be lifted and services enabled to re-open, Perez said that, while the county aspires to do so, “We have to make our decisions based on information. That is vital.”
Staff Writer Nikie Johnson contributed to this report.
CASES BY NEIGHBORHOOD
Here is the list of confirmed cases and deaths by city or unincorporated neighborhood. Numbers in strong suggest they remain in the top 5 for most cases or deaths.
- Anza: 5 cases, 0 deaths
- Banning: 102 cases, 1 death
- Beaumont: 40 cases, 2 deaths
- Bermuda Dunes: 5 cases, 0 deaths
- Blythe: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Cabazon: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Calimesa: 14 cases, 0 deaths
- Canyon Lake: 6 cases, 0 deaths
- Cathedral City: 51 cases, 1 death
- Cherry Valley: 4 cases, 1 death
- Coachella: 72 cases, 0 deaths
- Corona: 88 cases, 3 deaths
- Coronita: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Desert Edge: 2 cases, 0 deaths
- Desert Hot Springs: 23 cases, 0 deaths
- Desert Palms: 4 cases, 0 deaths
- East Hemet: 3 cases, 0 deaths
- Eastvale: 41 cases, 3 deaths
- El Cerrito: 5 cases, 0 deaths
- El Sobrante: 12 cases, 0 deaths
- French Valley: 25 cases, 0 deaths
- Garnet: 6 cases, 0 deaths
- Excellent Hope: 9 cases, 0 deaths
- Green Acres: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Hemet: 76 cases, 1 death
- Home Gardens: 3 cases, 0 deaths
- Homeland: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Idyllwild-Pine Cove: 3 cases, 0 deaths
- Indian Wells: 10 cases, 0 deaths
- Indio: 95 cases, 2 deaths
- Jurupa Valley: 53 cases, 0 deaths
- La Quinta: 36 cases, 0 deaths
- Lake Elsinore: 66 cases, 1 death
- Lake Mathews: 3 cases, 0 deaths
- Lakeland Village: 8 cases, 0 deaths
- Lakeview: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Mead Valley: 19 cases, 0 deaths
- Meadowbrook: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Capital: 15 cases, 0 deaths
- Menifee: 71 cases, 1 death
- Moreno Valley: 209 cases, 7 deaths
- Murrieta: 63 cases, 2 deaths
- Norco: 11 cases, 0 deaths
- North Coast: 0 cases, 0 deaths
- Nuevo: 6 cases, 0 deaths
- Oasis: 3 cases, 0 deaths
- Palm Desert: 63 cases, 5 deaths
- Palm Springs: 72 cases, 8 deaths
- Perris: 76 cases, 0 deaths
- Rancho Mirage: 23 cases, 3 deaths
- Riverside: 336 cases, 9 deaths
- Romoland: 1 case, 0 deaths
- San Jacinto: 18 cases, 0 deaths
- Sky Valley: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Temecula: 71 cases, 0 deaths
- Temescal Valley: 13 cases, 0 deaths
- Thermal: 6 cases, 0 deaths
- Thousand Palms: 4 cases, 0 deaths
- Valle Vista: 3 cases, 0 deaths
- Vista Santa Rosa: 0 cases, 0 deaths
- Wildomar: 30 cases, 2 deaths
- Winchester: 1 case, 0 deaths
- Woodcrest: 9 cases, 0 deaths
Riverside County is not launching numbers for neighborhoods with less than 2,000 residents. The location of some verified cases may still be under examination.
