San Diego County is now below the state's coronavirus case rate threshold.

In the county's emailed update, it reports the state has calculated the region's case rate as 94.1 per 100,000 residents.

We need to stay here for a total of three days before we can get off the monitoring list. Then we have to stay off the list for another 14 days before schools that serve grades 7-12 can open. (Elementary schools can seek waiver now.)

County Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten says even if we do get off monitoring list, state still needs to issue guidance for businesses to reopen. Wooten said yesterday it hasn't done so yet.

The county is calculating its own case rate at 98.4 per 100,000 residents. The difference is explained here: https://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/news/documents/2020/08/12/Calculating_Case_Rate_2020-08-07.pdf

The county is reporting 236 more people tested positive for coronavirus out of 7,339 tests, for a positive rate of 3%. Our 14-day rolling average positive rate is 4.7%.

An additional 6 people have died. They died between July 28 and Aug. 11 and were aged 66 to 96 years old. That now makes a total of 608 humans.