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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.
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
The local surge of COVID-19 cases has shown no sign of letup, with the county reporting 973 new cases since Jan. 1.
After surpassing 8,000 total cases on Dec. 30, it took the county just nine days to top 9,000, bringing the county’s total to 9,203 cases as of Saturday.
Sixteen COVID-related deaths h