Coronavirus: Nursing Home Deaths Rise Tuesday In Alameda County

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — The number of COVID-19 deaths, caused by the new coronavirus, increased in Alameda County on Tuesday, health officials report.

The Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center on Patrick Avenue in Hayward has reported 11 deaths among its residents, plus 40 residents and 25 staff members at the facility have tested positive for COVID-19, according to health officials.

Also reported on Tuesday, one resident of the East Bay Post-Acute Healthcare Center on Lake Chabot Road in Castro Valley has died of COVID-19. That's the first reported death at the facility. Health officials said 22 other residents and 23 staff members at the Castro Valley facility have tested positive for the new coronavirus.

As for county-wide statistics, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Alameda COunty Public Health Department reports that official statistics are not available from the state, making the most recent numbers reported from Sunday.

At 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Johns Hopkins University reported that California has 24,579 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Worth noting is that the Golden State has now slipped to sixth place for the total number of cases behind New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

As for deaths, California reports 734. The county with the most deaths is Los Angeles with 326, followed by Santa Clara with 60, Riverside has 50, San Diego is next with 47, and rounding out the top 5 is San Bernardino with 31.

Nationwide, the United States leads the world in both confirmed cases and deaths. Confirmed cases have reached 589,048, and 25,163 deaths.

Around the world, there have been 125,123 deaths and 1,956,077 confirmed cases.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday outlined a plan to lift the California's stay-at-home order. The state unveiled six "indicators" Tuesday that officials will consider before lifting current restrictions:

1. If the state has expanded testing, contact tracing of COVID-19 patients, and the ability to isolate and support people who have tested positive or were exposed to COVID-19.
2. Whether the state protect its most vulnerable residents — the elderly and medically vulnerable — from COVID-19 by quickly containing outbreaks in facilities such as nursing homes and prisons.
3. How well the state's hospital and health systems can handle surges in COVID-19 patients.
4. Whether the state has developed new treatments for the coronavirus by working with private, public and academic partners.
5. If businesses, schools and child care facilities can maintain social distancing, including state guidelines requiring health checks for employees and customers who enter.
6. Whether the state has determined when it will reinstitute virus containment measures, including stay-home orders, by tracking the right data and quickly communicating those measures to the public.

Meanwhile, the San Francisco 49er's Super Bowl loss may have prevented a "Coronavirus Catastrophe" according to experts. If the team had won, San Francisco would have thrown a victory parade with, presumably, hundreds of thousands of spectators. As coronavirus was already spreading in the community by the Super Bowl, the parade could have become a super-spreader event.

— Patch editors Bea Karnes and Nick Garber, and Bay City News contributed to this story