More than a half million San Bernardino County residents are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. The county passed that milestone over the weekend in the campaign to halt the spread of COVID-19. As of Sunday (May 2), 509,449 residents had received all of their shots. That is 23% of the county’s population, Statewide, about 32% of Californians are fully vaccinated. San Bernardino County has the 10th-lowest vaccination rate among California’s 58 counties.
Here are the latest San Bernardino County numbers as of Monday, May 3.
Confirmed cases: 296,146 total, up 247 from Friday, April 30, averaging 83 reported per day in the past week
Deaths: 4,426 total, up 64 from Friday, averaging 14 reported per day in the past week
Hospital survey: 82 confirmed and 15 suspected patients hospitalized Sunday, including 25 confirmed and two suspected patients in the ICU, with 25 of 25 facilities reporting. The number of confirmed patients is down 9% from a week earlier.
Tests: 2,951,882 total, up 23,906 from Friday, averaging 6,871 reported per day in the past week
Resolved cases (estimate): 290,658 total, up 227 from Friday, averaging 67 per day in the past week
Vaccinations*: San Bernardino County residents have received 1,208,803 doses, with 227,069 people partially vaccinated and another 509,449 fully vaccinated, as of Sunday. The number of residents who have received at least one dose is up 33,210 in the past week.
Reopening plan tier: Orange (moderate risk level; some indoor business operations are open with modifications) based on these metrics as of Tuesday, April 27:
New cases per day per 100,000 residents: 3.4
Case rate adjusted for testing volume: 3.4
Test positivity rate: 2.0% (2.2% in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods)
What’s next: To advance to the yellow tier where more businesses can open or expand capacity, the county would need an adjusted case rate below 2.0 and a positivity rate below 2.0% for the whole county and 2.2% in disadvantaged neighborhoods for two consecutive weeks, and to have been in the orange tier for three weeks. San Bernardino County moved to the orange tier April 6. If metrics get worse, the county could move back into the more restrictive red tier.
