San Bernardino County recorded another 26 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday (Sept. 9) after not updating its numbers Tuesday. The county is now averaging seven deaths from the disease per day, which is better than August, when COVID-19 killed an average of 10 people each day, but still worse than the five deaths per day in July. The number of new cases per day, averaged over the past seven days to account for data entry fluctuations, is 238. That’s the lowest the average has been since June 17, about the time that a surge of cases attributed to Memorial Day and re-openings began.
Here in the Morongo Basin, there are 426 confirmed cases and 18 deaths: Yucca Valley, with 228 cases and 14 deaths; Joshua Tree, with 72 cases and two deaths; Twentynine Palms, 78 cases and one death; Landers, nine cases and one death; Morongo Valley, 37 cases; and Pioneertown, two cases.
San Bernardino County
Confirmed cases: 49,909
Deaths: 791
Hospitalizations: 214 confirmed patients Tuesday, down from 224 Monday, Sept. 7; 61 suspected patients Tuesday, up from 42 Monday
Intensive-care unit: 84 confirmed patients Tuesday, down from 85 Monday; 5 suspected patients Tuesday, same as Monday
People tested: 527,656, up from 525,146 Tuesday
