California COVID Cases Increase To 472 Deaths To 11

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COVID-19 in California by the Numbers: 

 

As of March 16, 2020, 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, there are a total of 472 positive cases and eleven deaths in California (including one non-California resident). This total does not include passengers from the Grand Princess cruise ship currently docked in Oakland.

Ages of all confirmed positive cases:

• Age 0-17: 7 cases
• Age 18-64: 300 cases
• Age 65+: 160 cases
• Unknown: 5 cases

24 – Cases of positive tests related to federal repatriation flights

448 – Cases not related to repatriation flights

• 82 – Travel related
• 75– Person-to-person acquired
• 98 – Community acquired (see map of local health jurisdictions reporting community transmission - PDF)
• 193 – Under investigation

Approximately 11,750 people are self-monitoring, across 49 local health jurisdictions, after returning to the U.S. from travel.

Twenty-one public health labs in California are testing for COVID-19. These labs include the California Department of Public Health's Laboratory in Richmond, Alameda, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Monterey, Napa-Solano-Yolo-Marin (located in Solano), Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Shasta, Sonoma, Tulare and Ventura County public health laboratories The Richmond Laboratory will provide diagnostic testing within a 48-hour turnaround time. More public health labs will soon be able to test for COVID-19. This means California public health officials will get test results sooner, so that patients will get the best care.

https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/ncov2019.aspx