Health

San Diego County COVID-19 Update – 6-4-2021

young man sits on a chair while a woman gives him a vaccine
Omar Drebi receives his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Muslim Community Center vaccination site.
By Katie Cadiao, County of San Diego Communications Office
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Here is today’s COVID-19 update from the County Health and Human Services Agency with data through June 3.

Vaccination Progress:

  • Doses delivered: More than 4.17 million.
  • Doses administered: More than 3.73 million.
  • Received at least one shot: Over 2 million or 73% of San Diegans 12 and older.
  • Fully vaccinated: Over 1.63 million or 58.3%.
  • The goal: fully vaccinate 75% of San Diego County residents 12 and older or 2,101,936 people.
  • To date, 97.3% of the goal population has received at least one vaccine and 77.7% are fully vaccinated.
  • More vaccination information can be found coronavirus-sd.com/vaccine.

State Metrics:

  • San Diego County’s state-calculated, adjusted case rate is currently 1.7 cases per 100,000 residents, placing the County in the Yellow Tier for one week.
  • The County needs to have two weeks with a case rate of less than two cases per 100,000 residents to fully move into the Yellow Tier.
  • The testing positivity percentage is 1.3% and the County is in the Yellow Tier.
  • The health equity metric is 1.5%, placing the County in the Yellow Tier.
  • CDPH assesses counties on a weekly basis. The next report is scheduled for Tuesday, June 8.

Community Setting Outbreaks:

  • One new community outbreak was confirmed June 3 in a business setting.
  • In the past seven days (May 28 through June 3), nine community outbreaks were confirmed.
  • The community outbreaks trigger is more than seven in a 7-day period.

Testing:

  • 17,437 tests were reported to the County on June 3, and the percentage of new positive cases was 0.7%.
  • The 14-day rolling average percentage of positive cases is 0.7%. Target is less than 8.0%.
  • The 7-day, daily average of tests is 9,350.

Cases, Hospitalizations and ICU Admissions:

  • 126 COVID-19 cases were reported to the County on June 3. The region’s total is now 280,555.
  • 15,434 or 5.5% of all cases have required hospitalization.
  • 1,707 or 0.6% of all cases and 11.1% of hospitalized cases had to be admitted to an intensive care unit.

Deaths:

  • Two new deaths were reported June 3. The region’s total is 3,763.
  • One of the deceased was a man in his 60s with underlying medical conditions and the other was a man in his 80s with underlying medical conditions. Both died on June 2.

More Information:

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