Carlsbad has 33 more COVID-19 cases since my last update, bringing the total cases in Carlsbad to 160. We estimate 68 are currently active. That might not seem like a lot in a city of over 100,000 people, but it’s a big change from just a few weeks ago.
The county yesterday reported the single highest day of new COVID-19 cases at 498, which is 7% of those tested. Again, this is an increase – it had been hovering around 2-3%. The rolling 14-day average of positive cases compared to the total number of tests is now 4.1%. Here is a link to all the charts and graphs from yesterday’s news conference. I think the graph below pretty much sums up the situation we’re in:
