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COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue in Riverside County and the Coachella Valley as variants spread across the country, with numbers expected to rise in the coming weeks.
Between Friday and Monday, Riverside County added 4328 new cases of COVID-19. This represents a 64% increase from the 2639 cases reported between June 24 and 27.
The California Department of Public Health conducted information review activities on the regimen last week, leading to delays in reporting. A further 353 cases were reported between July 5 and Friday.
The nine Coachella Valley towns also added 793 new COVID-19 cases between June 29 and Friday.
Here is a full breakdown of the total number of cases shown, deaths and recoveries in the city since the beginning of the pandemic (with weekly adjustments shown in parentheses):
Cathedral City: 13,135 instances shown (111), deaths (-1), 12,832 recoveries (55)
Coachella: 13,478 shown (87), 121 dead (0), 13,254 recovered (46)
Desert Hot Springs: 8,103 instances shown (38), deaths (-1), 7,949 recoveries (25)
Indian Wells: 659 shown (2), 8 deaths (0), 645 recoveries (2)
India: 23,799 shown (224), 283 deaths (1), 23,271 recoveries (130)
La Quinta: 8,666 cases presented (101), deaths (1), 8,473 recoveries (68)
Palm Desert: 10,129 shown (89), 148 deaths (0), 9,869 recoveries (62)
Palm Springs: 8556 shown (102), 158 deaths (1), 8282 recoveries (71)
Rancho Mirage: 2,963 cases shown (39), deaths (1), 2,856 recoveries (35)
95 cases of COVID-19 were also reported in unincorporated communities for the nine days ending Friday.
Most likely, COVID-19 cases in the county have not yet peaked, especially after the recent Fourth of July holiday, Riverside County spokesman Jose Arballo Jr. said.
“We’re largely tracking trends and movements with the data, and the recent accumulation of instances is all we’ve been tracking,” Arballo said in an email Monday. “While we don’t normally expect trends, the pandemic has shown that cases usually pile up after a holiday or a special occasion (in this case, July 4). These increases occur regularly 10 to 15 days after the occasion, so it wouldn’t be surprising if the numbers continue to rise. “
Estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the subvariant omicron BA. 5 has the dominant strain among new coronavirus cases, accounting for about 54 percent of cases during the week ending July 2. Another subvariant, BA. 4, accounts for 16. 5% of new instances.
For the month of June in California, as of July 6, subline BA. 2. 12. 1 accounted for 53. 5% of the cases shown of sequenced omicron, and sublines BA. 4 and BA. 5 accounted for 9. 3% and 19. 5%, respectively, according to the California Department of Public Health. The most recent variant of sequencing knew in Riverside County that 4 cases of BA. 2 were detected in COVID-19 samples during the week ending June 18.
Sublines BA. 4 and BA. 5 were first known in South Africa this year, according to the CRPD. The State reports that these sublines are 10% more transmissible than the subvariant omicron BA. 2 and would possibly partially escape immunity from past vaccination or infection (including past omicron infection). Although cases from either subline have a higher level, California public health states lately have no evidence of increased disease severity.
While hospitalizations have remained fairly low in this new wave of COVID-19 cases in Riverside County, those numbers have also begun to rise. On Friday, the county reported 190 patients, 41 more than on July 5, and another 14 people in intensive care. Higher numbers on Monday with 210 patients hospitalized and 16 in intensive care.
Comparatively, those numbers are particularly lower than the peak of 1109 patients with the omicron wave in January and 675 patients with the delta wave in September 2021.
Michele Finney, executive director of Desert Regional Medical Center, said at the June 28 Desert Healthcare District assembly that there had been “a slight increase” in COVID-19 hospital numbers, with about 16 COVID-19 patients at Palm Springs Hospital and about two to 3 at JFK Memorial in Indio. As of Monday, Eisenhower Health had 10 COVID-19 patients, but none in intensive care, spokesman Lee Rice said.
On the bright side is that deaths have remained low in this new wave in Riverside County, Arballo said, “although any death is a tragedy. “No new deaths were reported between the fifth of July and Monday. There have been 6,559 deaths since the start of the pandemic (one death was removed from the county as a whole on Monday).
In Riverside County, 59. 3% of citizens over the age of five have completed their number one vaccine series, which includes shots of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines or a shot of Johnson vaccines.
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This article was originally published in Palm Springs Desert Sun: COVID-19: Cases and hospitalizations will most likely continue to grow in Riverside County, Coachella Valley