San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 5-18-2021

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Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through May 17.

Doses delivered: About 3.9 million.
Doses administered: Almost 3.37 million.
Received at least one shot: Over 1.8 million or 64.3% of San Diegans 12 and older.
Fully vaccinated: About 1.36 million or 48.5%.
The goal: fully vaccinate 75% of San Diego County residents 12 and older or 2,101,936 people.
To date, 85.8% of the goal population has received at least one vaccine and 64.7% are fully vaccinated.
More vaccination information can be found coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine.

San Diego County’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 3.4 cases per 100,000 residents.
The testing positivity percentage is 1.6%.
The health equity metric is 2.1%.
CDPH assesses counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, May 25.

One new community outbreak was confirmed May 17 in a faith-based agency setting.
In the past seven days (May 11 through May 17), 8 community outbreaks were confirmed.
The community outbreaks trigger is seven or more in seven days.

7,688 tests were reported to the County on May 17, and the percentage of new positive cases was 1%.
The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 1.5%. Target is less than 8.0%.
The 7-day, daily average of tests is 11, 280.

108 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on May 17. The region’s total is now 279,253.
15,355 or 5.5% of all cases have required hospitalization.
1,696 or 0.6% of all cases and 11% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

No new COVID-19 deaths were reported on Monday, May 17. The region’s total is 3,742.

The more detailed data summaries found on the County’s coronavirus-sd.com website are updated around 5 p.m. daily.