Coronavirus Death In Alameda County As Cases Approach 400

ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — Another person has died of coronavirus in Alameda County.

The Alameda County Public Heath Department reported the ninth death in the county on Thursday, while the total number of confirmed cases reached 396, including the city of Berkeley's numbers.

California has 10,000 confirmed cases as of 11:15 a.m. Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University, and 216 deaths. However, the death toll does not include Alameda County's most recent death so the figures are lagging a bit.

The hardest hit state in the US is New York, which is reporting 2,373 deaths.

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If you are a healthcare worker or a member of a police or fire department, special hours have been established at some grocery stores to accommodate the long hours that you are working in the fight against coronavirus.

Meanwhile, two weeks after the Bay Area first announced a "shelter-in-place" order to help slow the spread of the new coronavirus, health officials believe the proactive move may have helped the region avoid a disastrous surge in COVID-19 patients.

Doctors at hospitals around the Bay Area are treating fewer cases than they expected to see after two weeks — the maximum time it takes for people infected with the virus to start showing symptoms — and many believe the lockdown is responsible for "flattening the curve" of the virus, POLITICO reported.

The shelter-in-place has been disastrous for many workers, as some one million Californians filed for unemployment benefits in just a two week period.

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