Cris Alarcon]
Here are the trends As of April 13, 2020 at 3:30 p.m:
Cases to Recoveries [Recovery Rate]
34 : 23 – as of April 13 [ 68% of confirmed cases called recoveries]
32 : 16 – as of April 9 [ 50% of confirmed cases called recoveries]
What does it mean to “recover” from the coronavirus?
A positive number that is ticking upward is the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19. The growing number of recoveries comes with a growing number of questions about what it means to overcome COVID-19:
1) Self-Diagnose as Recovered;
2) about a patient’s contagiousness;
3) subsequent immunity to the disease.
Much about the aftermath of the illness remains unclear or unknown, and there is even uncertainty about the term “recover” in the coronavirus context.
With illnesses like the common cold, someone is considered recovered when they feel better. With other diseases, like influenza C, clinicians can conduct a lab test to determine if someone has recovered, said Keiji Fukuda, clinical professor and director of the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong.
The medical definition of “recovery” depends on the disease.
With COVID-19, “the difficulty is that some people who feel subjectively well still have laboratory and chest CT [scan] evidence of infection. When we have more information about the relationship of infection and symptoms for COVID, we will have a better idea of how to define ‘recovered’ for COVID-19,” Fukuda said. For now, “we are still trying to determine what recovery means.”
Lack of access to testing kits continues to be an issue, so many people have judged for themselves when they have “recovered.”
For people with COVID-19 who are not hospitalized, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides symptoms-based criteria to determine whether they’ve recovered from the illness.
People can stop home isolation, the CDC says, when they have not had a fever for 72 hours, when “other symptoms have improved,” like coughing and shortness of breath, and they must also receive two negative tests in a row, 24 hours apart. If they do not have access to a test, the first two criteria remain, and they must also wait for seven days to pass since the first onset of symptoms before they can stop home isolation.
How long are patients contagious?
Another unknown in the COVID-19 recovery is the window in which a person with COVID-19 is contagious. One study in Germany estimated it would take 10 days after patients with mild illness first fell sick for them to become low-risk for spreading the disease.
“It is clear that people are infectious and can infect other individuals during the first days, but we don’t know for how long they can remain infectious,” said Roberto Bruzzone, codirector of the University of Hong Kong’s HKU-Pasteur Research Pole for the study of infectious disease.
Are recovered patients immune?
Another marker of coronavirus recovery is at least some degree of immunity to it. The immune system of an infected person who recovers from the disease produces antibodies to fight against the virus. With some viruses, like polio, post-recovery immunity is lifelong. In other cases, like with the common cold coronaviruses, antibody levels gradually decline after recovery from infection, which is why people get colds again and again over their lifetimes.
It is not yet known and it’s too soon to tell how long the body’s immune response to the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, will last; some experts predict one to two years.
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SOURCES
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/03/23/covid-19-treatment-recovery…
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/some-covid-19-patien…
https://health.ebsco.com/blog/article/clinical-progression-and-recovery-…
https://www.google.com/search?q=COVID-19&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic-sX2zeHoAhXKG…
https://twitter.com/CAPublicHealth/status/1249114927110840320?ref_src=tw…
Location: [Qty/location/date]
14 EDH total on April 13th
13 EDH total on April 9th
11 EDH total on April 8th
10 EDH total on April 7th
40% increase over last over 6 days
10 SLT total on April 13th
9 SLT total on April 9th
9 SLT total on April 8th
9 SLT total on April 7th
11% increase over last 6 days
5 Placerville total on April 13th
5 Placerville total on April 9th
5 Placerville total on April 8th
4 Placerville total on April 7th
25% increase over last 6 days
3 Cameron Park total on April 13th
3 Cameron Park total on April 9th
3 Cameron Park total on April 8th
3 Cameron Park total on April 7th
0% increase over last 6 days
2 North County [Divide] total on April 13th
2 North County [Divide] total on April 9th
2 North County [Divide] total on April 8th
2 North County [Divide] total on April 7th
0% increase over last 6 days
South County, Diamond Springs, El Dorado, Kyburz, Camino, Pollock Pines remain clear of confirmed cases
Cases by Gender:
Male = 17 / Female = 17 – April 13th
Male = 18 / Female = 14 – April 9th
Male = 16 / Female = 14 – April 8th
Male = 15 / Female = 13 – April 7th
Mean Age:
April 13th 47-years-old
April 9th 49-years-old
April 8th 51-years-old
April 7th 50-years-old
See current details here: https://www.edcgov.us/Government/hhsa/Pages/EDCCOVID-19-Cases.aspx
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