It’s now possible to tell how many coronavirus cases—and how many COVID-19 deaths—there have been in 41 additional communities in San Bernardino County. Smaller unincorporated areas were added this week to a county dashboard tracking the virus, three months after the county began listing the number of cases and deaths associated with the virus in incorporated cities and some larger unincorporated areas. Here in the Morongo Basin we are up to 156 cases: Yucca Valley with 94; Joshua Tree 28; Twentynine Palms 17; Morongo Valley 15; Landers one; and Pioneertown one. The county’s seven-day moving average of new cases is at 676. The total number of people who have tested positive, 23,772, has doubled since June 29, and the number of those hospitalized, 611, has doubled in a month. The total number of deaths, 328, has taken more than a month longer than the hospitalizations to double.
Here are the latest numbers (as of 7/19/20) according to county and state public health officials.
San Bernardino County
CASES: 23,772, up from 23,566 Saturday
DEATHS: 328, same as Saturday
HOSPITALIZATIONS: 611 Saturday, down from 625 Friday; suspected patients: 88 Saturday, up from 55 Friday
INTENSIVE CARE UNIT PATIENTS: 183 Saturday, up from 174 Friday; suspected patients: 11 Saturday, up from 7 Friday
RECOVERIES: 13,923, up from 13,609 Saturday
SKILLED-NURSING FACILITIES: Residents: 1,079; deaths: 161. Employees: 676 (updated Sunday)
STATE PRISONS: 117 active cases Sunday
PEOPLE TESTED: 204,960 Sunday, up from 201,446 Saturday
