VENTURA COUNTY — Good Evening, Here is your daily update on COVID-19 in the County of Ventura.
Testing Capacity
Chief Deputy Director of the Ventura County Health Care Agency Barry Zimmerman provided an update on testing this week. View the update here. The County of Ventura is focused on the ability to monitor and protect our communities through testing, contact tracing, isolating and supporting those who are positive or exposed. These steps are critical on the path to reopening. Governor Newsom announced last week that the state is contracting with OptumServe to establish an additional 80 community testing sites in California to focus on high risk people including essential service workers. Two of the sites will be in the County of Ventura. Details about the sites will be announced very soon. The Governor provided 6 indicators for modifying the Stay-at-Home Order for the State yesterday. The presentation is attached. Testing is a key indicator.
Here are the numbers as of 4/29/20:
- 9 new cases
- 517 total cases
- 366 recovered cases
- 26 hospitalized (5 are long term care facility patients that do not need hospital care but are being cared for at the hospital to protect others at the long term care facilities)
- 10 currently in the ICU
- 134 active cases under quarantine
- 17 deaths
- 9,784 tested
Frequently Asked Question
Should cloth masks be worn during this COVID-19 pandemic in either the community setting or in places of business where food is sold?
Public Health Officer, Doctor Robert Levin has provided a report on the use of cloth masks at: https://vcportal.ventura.org/CEO/VCNC/2020-04-18_VCNC_Masks_Pros_and_Cons.pdf
| Summary | # | |||
| New cases | 9 | |||
| Total cases | 517 | |||
| Recovered Cases | 366 | |||
| Ever hospitalizations | 103 | |||
| Current hospitalizations | 26 | |||
| Ever ICU* | 28 | |||
| Current ICU | 10 | |||
| Active Cases Under Quarantine | 134 | |||
| Deaths | 17 | |||
| People Tested | 9,784 | |||
| *Current hospitalizations does not include those from LTC facilities that no longer require acute care but are being held at the facility to protect others. Current ICU is underreported because we do not get notification when hospitalized patients are transferred to ICU. | ||||
| Age and Sex of Confirmed Cases: | Female | Male | % | |
| Age 0-17 | 7 | 5 | 2.3% | |
| Age 18-24 | 28 | 13 | 7.9% | |
| Age 25-44 | 81 | 59 | 27.1% | |
| Age 45-64 | 99 | 108 | 40.0% | |
| Age 65+ | 53 | 64 | 22.6% | |
| Unknown | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| Total | 268 | 249 | 100.0% | |
| % by Sex | 51.8% | 48.2% | ||
| Race/Ethnicity** | % Cases | % Deaths | % of Population | |
| Latino | 42.5% | 17.6% | 44.5% | |
| White | 41.9% | 70.6% | 43.2% | |
| Asian | 7.2% | 5.9% | 7.4% | |
| African American/Black | 1.2% | 5.9% | 1.7% | |
| Multiracial | 0.6% | 0.0% | 2.5% | |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 0.6% | 0.0% | 0.3% | |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1.2% | 0.0% | 0.2% | |
| Other | 4.9% | 0.0% | 0.2% | |
| Total | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% | |
| **There are 171 cases not included in this analysis because of missing race/ethnicity data. | ||||
| Confirmed Cases: | # | % | ||
| Travel Related | 19 | 3.7% | ||
| Person-to-person acquired | 151 | 29.2% | ||
| Community acquired | 270 | 52.2% | ||
| Under investigation | 77 | 14.9% | ||
| Total | 517 | 100.0% | ||
| City/Zip*** | # | % of Total | ||
| 91320 – Thousand Oaks/Newbury Park | 15 | 2.9% | ||
| 91360 – Thousand Oaks | 35 | 6.8% | ||
| 91361 – Thousand Oaks/Lake Sherwood/Westlake | 15 | 2.9% | ||
| 91362 – Thousand Oaks/Westlake | 26 | 5.0% | ||
| 91377 – Oak Park | 12 | 2.3% | ||
| 93001 – Ventura | 14 | 2.7% | ||
| 93003 – Ventura | 13 | 2.5% | ||
| 93004 – Ventura | 9 | 1.7% | ||
| 93010 – Camarillo | 30 | 5.8% | ||
| 93012 – Camarillo/Santa Rosa Valley | 15 | 2.9% | ||
| 93015 – Fillmore | 12 | 2.3% | ||
| 93021 – Moorpark | 27 | 5.2% | ||
| 93022 – Oak View | 2 | 0.4% | ||
| 93023 – Ojai | 5 | 1.0% | ||
| 93030 – Oxnard | 26 | 5.0% | ||
| 93033 – Oxnard | 43 | 8.3% | ||
| 93035 – Oxnard | 23 | 4.4% | ||
| 93036 – Oxnard | 26 | 5.0% | ||
| 93040 – Piru | 3 | 0.6% | ||
| 93041 – Port Hueneme | 11 | 2.1% | ||
| 93060 – Santa Paula | 14 | 2.7% | ||
| 93063 – Simi Valley (Santa Susana) | 41 | 7.9% | ||
| 93065 – Simi Valley | 98 | 19.0% | ||
| 93066 – Somis | 2 | 0.4% | ||
| Total | 517 | 100.0% | ||