The latest drivel from the county where I live. Typical limp-dicked shit from that overpaid fuck Moreno. Have a medical appointment tomorrow. Plan to ask doctor if due to physical condition can go into stores without a mask. Plan to go by Costco to get some things. If I see I will have to wait in line like a fucking penitent to get in will just go home. Don't need anything from downtown that much these days to put up with the shit.
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE CARMEL PINE CONE
December 6, 2020, 3:09 p.m.
ICU CAPACITY HOLDING STEADY AFTER MORENO SAYS HE MAY SHUT COUNTY ANYWAY
In the wake of Monterey County Health Officer Dr. Ed Moreno's
announcement Friday that he may join five San Francisco Bay area counties in imposing a new set of
coronavirus shutdown rules regardless of Monterey County's ICU status, the number of patients in this county needing intensive care for Covid-19 has held steady, while the overall number of hospital patients with Covid-19 has declined, according to the latest data from the county health department and the California Department of Public Health.
On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state's hospitals were reaching their capacity to treat patients with coronavirus, and he announced a new level of shutdowns in places where fewer than 15 percent of ICU beds were open. He designated five regions where the new threshold would apply, and two of those regions — San Joaquin Valley and Southern California — have already fallen below it and are subject to the new
shutdown regimen.
The Greater Bay Area region, including Monterey County, was well above the threshold when Newsom made his announcement. Nevertheless, five of the regions' counties (San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, Alameda and Contra Costa) announced Friday they would preemptively impose the shutdown rules anyway. A short time later, Moreno said he was considering doing the same thing.
But this weekend, the Greater Bay Area region saw its ICU capacity
improve to 24.1 percent, and in Monterey County the number of available ICU beds increased from 15 to 20, while the number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus decreased from 90 to 87, according to
state data. How those numbers will affect what Moreno chooses to do will probably become clearer tomorrow. His Friday announcement implied that he could decide to impose Newsom's strict shutdown rules at any time, and that his decision wouldn't necessarily be tethered to anything the governor might do, or to any particular data or criteria.
Meanwhile, we can also tell you that Monterey County's overall coronavirus picture has improved slightly as of today, with 1,260 new cases reported over the last seven days, including 902 in Salinas and the Salinas Valley and 172 in the Monterey Peninsula: 67 in Seaside, 45 in Marina, 32 in Monterey, 15 in Carmel area, 4 in Pebble Beach, 3 each in Big Sur, Pacific Grove and Carmel Valley, and none in Carmel-by-the-Sea, according to county health department records. The county's 7-day average of new cases per day per 100,000 residents also improved a bit, to 39.4.
There were 12 coronavirus-related fatalities in the past seven days, a county report said, bringing the total to 134 (since mid-March! What the fuck! Bet we've had multiples of that die of heart/cancer! - JS) and raising the county's coronavirus-related death rate .0002885, or 288.5 deaths per one million residents.
To see the most up-to-date charts and tables from the county health department, click
here. Below, you can also find the updated versions of our charts showing coronavirus infections countywide and in the Monterey Peninsula, along with the data for hospitalizations and our chart breaking down Monterey County's coronavirus cases and infection rates by zip code. Please check these charts and tables for the latest data on coronavirus cases in your community.