{"id":9942,"date":"2020-05-26T21:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2026-01-02T21:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T05:25:39","slug":"icu-for-one-county-coronavirus-patient-terms-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2020\/05\/26\/icu-for-one-county-coronavirus-patient-terms-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"ICU for One County Coronavirus Patient &#8211; Terms Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[InEDC]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>County Announces ICU-Hospitalization included within the\u00a023\u00a0&#8220;Active&#8221; Coronavirus county resident cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActive Cases\u201d increase to 23 as new cases increased faster than recoveries.<\/p>\n<p>Terms Explained:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">&#8220;<strong>Tested<\/strong>&#8221; is the number test results reported [not those\u00a0tested and awaiting results]<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">&#8220;<strong>Confirmed<\/strong>&#8221; is the cumulative number of individuals who have been reported to the County as having tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">&#8220;<strong>Active<\/strong>&#8221; are the number tested positive and still with Symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">&#8220;<strong>Recovered<\/strong>&#8221; are the number of individuals who have tested positive (and therefore captured in the Confirmed group) whose cases have been tracked by County Public Health and deemed as no longer actively ill (72 hours of no fever w\/o aid of medications, re reduction in the respiratory symptoms AND at least seven days from the first appearance of symptoms).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Incubation period<\/strong>\u00a0for Coronavirus is\u00a0between 2 and 14 days.\u00a0On average, symptoms appear around\u00a05 days after exposure.<sup>\u00a01<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>United States\u00a0<strong>COVID-19 mortality rate<\/strong>\u00a0is 1.3%, that is one (1) death in every seventy-eight (78) confirmed cases.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em>El Dorado County\u00a0has now reached 80 cases\u00a0<sup>3<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The chart below shows the\u00a0<u>Rate of Increase in confirmed Coronavirus cases in El Dorado County<\/u>\u00a0annotated with external local events related to Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0Healthline, April 29 &#8211;\u00a0<a>https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/coronavirus-incubation-period<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0Science Daily, May 18 &#8211;\u00a0<a>https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/05\/200518144915.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>\u00a0EDC\u00a0Health, May 26 &#8211;\u00a0<a>https:\/\/www.edcgov.us\/Government\/hhsa\/Pages\/EDCCOVID-19-Cases.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[InEDC] County Announces ICU-Hospitalization included within the\u00a023\u00a0&#8220;Active&#8221; Coronavirus county resident cases. \u201cActive Cases\u201d increase to 23 as new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}