COVID-19 associated deaths in San Luis Obispo County have been excessive up to now month regardless that each different COVID-19 statistic goes down.
In complete, 470 San Luis Obispo County residents have died because of issues associated to COVID-19. Since Feb. 9, in only one month 51 folks have been declared useless because of COVID-19 in San Luis Obispo County.
With the variety of sufferers within the ICU constantly being lower than 7 throughout that timeframe, KSBY reached out to San Luis Obispo County Public Well being officers to see if they might clarify the explanation behind the upper variety of deaths, and that is what they stated:
With every surge of this pandemic, we’ve seen a pattern during which circumstances peak, then hospitalizations peak a couple of weeks after that (as folks turn into extra severely sick) after which deaths peak a couple of weeks after that. That’s what we imagine we’re seeing now. In different phrases, regardless that we could also be a number of weeks previous our peak in circumstances and hospitalizations appear to have stabilized at a decrease quantity, we might proceed to see excessive numbers of deaths for a while. We have no idea when that may peak. Moreover, with the rise in at-home testing (which is leading to fewer reported circumstances), we acknowledge that our case numbers don’t seize all the circumstances occurring locally. It could subsequently observe that our deaths may additionally stay regular and even improve though, we actually hope that won’t be the case.
There’s additionally an prolonged course of in confirming deaths as attributable to COVID-19 and this could trigger some delay in reporting. Our workers is at present working by studies of extra deaths that attending physicians famous have been attributable to COVID-19.
For extra details about the present COVID-19 information in San Luis Obispo County, click here.
