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County of Ventura COVID-19 Update for Aug. 4 — Community Forum on Aug. 5

by Community Contributor • August 4, 2020 • Comments Off

Good Afternoon, The State of California COVID-19 reporting system does not have today’s numbers available. We hope to have the updated information by tomorrow. Read the full update from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) at by clicking here.

Info from CDPH

CDPH has discovered an underreporting of COVID-19 cases due to technology issues with the electronic laboratory reporting system which reports into the state’s disease registry system (CalREDIE). However, patient care and test results are not affected or delayed by this issue. Laboratories continue to report test results directly to providers and hospitals, and hospitalization and death rates are not impacted as they are reported directly to the state through different systems. This is also likely leading to underreporting of cases at the local level as well.

While clinicians are still able to report to local health departments, this issue may impact a local public health department’s ability to receive all lab reports in order to case investigate and contact trace.

To address this issue, CDPH has taken the following actions:

Deployed a team from the Department of Technology to assess the underlying code;
Engaged our local public health officers to ensure they have necessary information;
Instructed all laboratories in California to manually report all positive cases to the local public health departments.

Ventura County Information

There is one additional death of a 92 year old male with a comorbidity.
Current hospitalizations are 79 and current ICU is 21.

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Community Forum on the Intersection of Race and Law Enforcement

On Wednesday, August 5, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the County of Ventura will host a virtual Community Forum open to all members of the public online via Zoom to discuss the intersection of race and law enforcement in our community. The Community Forum will consist of a panel of County leaders and community representatives who will participate in a roundtable discussion, followed by questions from the public.

Click here for more information about the forum.