San Diego County Publishes Coronavirus Update For June 7

Press release from the San Diego County Government:

June 7, 2021

Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through June 6.

Vaccination Progress:

• Doses delivered: More than 4.21 million.
• Doses administered: Over 3.78 million.
• Received at least one shot: More than 2.07 million or 73.9% of San Diegans 12 and older.
• Fully vaccinated: Nearly 1.68 million or 59.8%.
• The goal: fully vaccinate 75% of San Diego County residents 12 and older or 2,101,936 people.
• To date, 98.6% of the goal population has received at least one vaccine and 79.8% are fully vaccinated.
• More vaccination information can be found coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine.

State Metrics:

• San Diego County’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 1.7 cases per 100,000 residents, placing the County in the Yellow Tier for one week.
• The County needs to have two weeks with a case rate of less than two cases per 100,000 residents to fully move into the Yellow Tier.
• The testing positivity percentage is 1.3% and the County is in the Yellow Tier.
• The health equity metric is 1.5%, placing the County in the Yellow Tier.
• CDPH assesses counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, June 8.

Community Setting Outbreaks:

• No new community outbreaks were confirmed June 6.
• No community outbreaks were reported June 5 of June 4.
• In the past seven days (May 31 through June 6), four community outbreaks were confirmed.
• The community outbreaks trigger is more than seven in a 7-day period.

Testing:

• 5,898 tests were reported to the County on June 6, and the percentage of new positive cases was 1.1%.
• The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 0.8%. Target is less than 8.0%.
• The 7-day, daily average of tests is 9,600.

Cases, Hospitalizations and ICU Admissions:

• 65 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on June 6. The region’s total is now 280,807.
• 15,441 or 5.5% of all cases have required hospitalization.
• 1,711 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Deaths:

• No new deaths were reported June 6 or June 5. The region’s total is 3,764.
• One new death was reported June 4. A woman in her 60s with no underlying medical conditions died June 1, 2021.

More Information:

The more detailed data summaries found on the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website are updated around 5 p.m. daily.

This press release was produced by the San Diego County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.