San Diego County COVID-19 Update

【We Chinese in America Media Editor Tang Zhao, March 23, 2022】

Here is this week’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through March 22, 2022.

Vaccination Progress:

Received at least one shot: Close to 2.95 million or 93.7% of San Diegans age 5 and older are at least partially vaccinated.
Fully vaccinated: More than 2.59 million or 82.3%.
Boosters administered: 1,205,205 or 55.5% of 2,171,477 eligible San Diegans.
More vaccination information can be found at coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine.

Deaths:

13 new deaths were reported since the last report on March 16, 2022. The region’s total is 5,146.
Eight women and five men died between Jan. 21, 2022 and March 19, 2022.
Six were age 80 or older, four were in their 70s and three were in their 60s.
Four of the people who died were fully vaccinated and nine were not fully vaccinated.
11 had underlying medical conditions and two had medical history pending.

Cases, Case Rates, Hospitalizations and Testing:

304 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on March 22, 2022. The region’s total is now 748,407.
2,774 cases were reported in the past week (March 16 through March 22) compared to 2,987 infections identified the previous week (March 9 through March 15).
San Diego County’s case rate per 100,000 residents 12 years of age and older is 8.6 for people fully vaccinated and boosted, 7.8 for fully vaccinated people and 19.9 for not fully vaccinated San Diegans.
6,037 tests were reported to the County on March 20, 2022, and the percentage of new positive cases was 2.8%.
The 14-day rolling percentage of positive cases among tests reported through March 20, 2022 is 3.4%.

More Information:

Data updates to the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website are published Monday through Friday around 5 p.m., with the exception of holidays.

(Source: County of San Diego Communications Office)

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