Cases have increased recently and are extremely high.
An average of 271 cases per day were reported in El Dorado County, a 23 percent increase from the average two weeks ago. Since the beginning of the pandemic, at least 1 in 8 residents have been infected, a total of 25,700 reported cases. Right now, El Dorado County is at an extremely high risk for unvaccinated people. El Dorado County is at an extremely high risk level for unvaccinated people because there was an average of 150 daily cases per 100,000 people reported in the past two weeks and the test positivity was over 10 percent. The risk in El Dorado County will decrease to very high risk if the test positivity drops below 10 percent and the daily case rate drops to less than about 45.7 cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks.
So far, January has been the month with the highest average cases in El Dorado County.
Deaths have remained at about the same level.
The test positivity rate in El Dorado County is very high, suggesting that cases are being significantly undercounted.