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While the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has provided for many a light at the end of a long tunnel, challenges may remain for quite some time for the Yolo County healthcare providers charged with delivering those vaccines.
Local healthcare systems, which will continue to focus on the virus and vaccinations for months to come, are also coping with decreased revenue, staff burnout and patients who delayed preventive care over the last year, leading in some cases to acute conditions.
During a COVID-19 community summit hosted by the Yolo County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, representatives of local healthcare systems along with a variety of other sectors provided an update on the challenges they are dealing with even as the end of the pandemic may be in sight.
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Fifty Yolo County residents were in hospitals with COVID-19 on Saturday, the most ever during the course of the pandemic.
The vast majority were hospitalized outside the county, with county data showing just 16 COVID-positive patients at Sutter Davis and Woodland Memorial hospitals, including nine in intensive care beds.
The county has also reported 11 more COVID-19 deaths over the past week.
The good news: The county has shown a decline in new cases, as well as a continuing drop in the test positivity rate, over the last seven days. The positivity rate of 3.9 percent for the week of Jan. 14 to 20 is the lowest since mid-October.
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Yolo County’s third COVID-19 wave has peaked and cases have begun to decline, the county’s health officer said on Tuesday.
However, the extent of the decline shown in the adjusted case rate and test positivity rate measured by the state is “deceptive,” with both being driven not “by a decrease in di