SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The largest spike in positive COVID-19 cases Sacramento County experienced came during the 2020 holiday season, peaking at 1,267 on Dec. 14, 2020.
However, Sacramento County set a new record Thursday, Dec. 30, when it reported its highest number of identified COVID-19 infections in a single day. Not once, twice nor three times, but four times in the final days of 2021, the county broke its record for most positive cases reported.
According to the county's COVID-19 dashboard, the days of Dec. 27, 28, 29 and 30 saw reported positive cases at 1,375; 1,633; 1,815 and 1,871 respectively.
Separate from a 7-day case rate average, single-day case reports account for the number of positive infections identified only on that day.
What are other counties reporting?
Yuba-Sutter and Yolo County have also reported their highest, single-day positive case spikes for COVID-19 .
Rarely did county health officials report more than 100 cases in a single day, according to the Yolo County COVID-19 Dashboard. But the county reported 244 positive cases on Dec. 27, and 222 the following day. Yolo County then reported 245 cases on Dec. 29, the county's current record.
Meanwhile in nearby Yuba-Sutter County, its COVID-19 dashboard shows the county passed its 2020 single-day record on Jan. 3, 2022, when it saw 364 cases reported in the county.
Placer County Public Health has not yet surpassed its single-day case reporting record of 336 set on Dec. 29, 2020.
On Dec. 30, 2021, the county reported 334 positive COVID-19 cases.
According to the Stanislaus County Health Services Agency, cases for them have increased rapidly since Christmas Eve — with the most significant rise seen in young adults between 18 and 34 years old.
While El Dorado County last updated its dashboard on Dec. 27, 2021, the New York Times Coronavirus Tracker reports the county is seeing a positive case-rate spike comparable to their numbers over the summer.
The spread of new coronavirus variants like delta and omicron, along with Sacramento area children going back to in-person learning, has sparked long lines for COVID-19 testing recently.
COVID-19 Pfizer boosters have also been extended to children as young as 12 to combat the continuing surge of omicron infections.
