Tuolumne County adds 3 deaths, 73 cases over the weekend

Three more deaths to COVID-19 and 73 new cases in Tuolumne County were confirmed from Saturday through Monday, the county Public Health Department reported Monday afternoon.

The three who died were identified as an unvaccinated woman in her 50s, an unvaccinated woman in her 80s, and a vaccinated man in his 90s, who was only the fifth vaccinated person in the county to die out of 124 deaths since the pandemic began.

No other information about the people or their deaths was provided by the department, including when and where they died.

Other vaccinated people in the county who have died were a woman in her 90s, another woman and a man in their 80s, and a woman in her 30s. Unvaccinated deaths in the county have run the gamut of age groups from children younger than 18 through people in their 90s.

There were also 14 people in the county hospitalized for COVID-19 on Monday, with 12 of them being unvaccinated.

The 73 new cases included 63 people who were unvaccinated.

According to the California Department of Public Health on Tuesday, unvaccinated Californians in recent weeks were more than 6.9 times likely to catch COVID-19, 9.9 times more likely to be hospitalized with it, and 15 times more likely to die from it than fully vaccinated people.

New cases from Saturday through Monday were identi

fied as nine girls and 11 boys younger than 12, three girls and two boys 12 to 17 years old, six women and eight men 18 to 29 years old, six women and four men in their 30s, seven women and two men in their 40s, four women and two men in their 50s, two women and four men in their 60s, one woman in her 70s, and a woman and a man in their 80s.

The county also had 238 active cases, with a 14-day average case rate of 51.7 per 100,000 residents. That was up from Friday’s case rate of 50.6 per 100,000.

Calaveras County also said on Monday that it incorrectly reported 74 new cases on Friday, though no explanation for the error was given. The correct number of new cases from Friday through Monday was reported as 41.

There were no additional deaths reported in Calaveras County, which has had a total of 83 since the pandemic began.