STAFF REPORTS

Zero Californians below age 17 have died due to or in conjunction with Covid-19. Seventy-five percent of all of the state’s Covid deaths involve patients over 65 years old. And 46 percent of those deaths occurred in skilled nursing facilities. Statewide, resident Covid deaths from these facilities account for 34 percent of all California deaths as of August 9, 2020, according to the California Department of Public Health..

A skilled nursing facility is an inpatient center for rehabilitation and therapy, as opposed to a senior center which provides 24/7 residential care for those who can no longer care for themselves.

California currently has 5,636 laboratory-confirmed Covid patients who are hospitalized as of August 8. That’s been trending downward since July 21, when there were 7,170 lab-confirmed Covid patients hospitalized. Daily deaths hit a peak of 210 in California on July 31. Deaths since then have been slightly more than 100 every day, and on August 8 there were 99 Covid-related deaths in California.