Article Date
April 17, 2020
Good afternoon:
At this time, our COVID-19 lab tests are mainly performed at Monterey County Health Department with an average of a 24-hour turnaround, and is prioritized by tier-level screening. As of today, our testing results and coronavirus hospitalization information is as follows:
429 Patients tested
- 299 Monterey County Health Department
- 16 MCHD pending
- 140 Independent Lab
- 0 independent pending
- 24 positive patients:
- 22 seen in emergency medical triage tent or ED isolation room. All were fully isolated and sent home under quarantine with care instructions.
- 2 cumulative hospitalized patients.
- 1 current (and 3 PUIs as of this morning)
- 1 death*.
The following are the test results and hospitalization from other local hospitals:
CHOMP (as of today)
- 334 patients tested
- 308 results negative
- 15 results positive
- 11 results pending
- 1 positive in hospital
- 1 death
SVMHS (as of yesterday)
- 626 patients tested
- 58 positive
- 534 negative
- 34 pending
- 10 total admissions
- 5 currently in house
- 1 death
I hope you all have a restful weekend. Keep up the good work.