COVID Tracker: 36,487cases, 541 Deaths

San Francisco CA

19 May, 2021

4:13 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local May 18, 2021 Good Morning Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump. Beginnng tomorrow, Covid Tracker will post only daily graphs. Commentary will be added at the beginning of each week unless circumstances change. A strange drop in the cumulative number of SF cases. Strange but not unusual in the world of Covid numbers. Vaccine equity? There is a long, long way to go. A 24 percent increase in California youth suicides since 2019 suggests that unending school closures is not cost free. Homicides have also surged in the state. California will revise its indoor mask regs next month. The CDC's latest mask-wearing edict continues to generate more heat than light. Although masking has become a political issue, the enduring controversy suggests there may be underlying psychological and sociological issues involved which are poorly understood . Scroll down for today's Covid numbers. The CDC data used for the chart lags behind the data supplied from SFDPH. SFDPH has yet to update vaccination numbers for the weekend. As of May 16, DPH reports 76 percent (582,121) of San Francisco residents over 16 had received one dose, and 61 percent (466,490) are completely vaccinated. On May 16, the seven-day rolling average of shots per day was 6,082. For information on where to get vaccinated in and around the Mission, visit our Vaccination Page. Covid-19 R Estimation has its estimate for the San Francisco R number at .86, while slightly lowering its estimate for California to .85. All models in the ensemble show San Francisco and California below 1, with a San Francisco average estimate of .77, while California's average estimate dropped to .81. Between April 14 and May 13, DPH reports 70 new cases in the Mission or 11.7 new cases per 10,000 residents. Bayview Hunters Point remains the City's hottest spot with 90 new cases over the past month or 24.1 new cases per 10,000 residents. Fifteen neighborhoods had 10 or fewer cases. For the week ending May 10, the seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in the City was 20 new cases, or 2.2 new cases per day per 100,000 residents. The graph above shows the daily totals. DPH will delay cumulative totals for May until May 20. For the week ending May 14, the rate of weekly change in Covid positive patients fell 35 percent. During that week, the seven-day average availability of ICU beds was 34 percent and Acute Care availability was 25 percent. On May 14, DPH reports Covid patients comprised 3.2 percent of ICU occupancy and .4 percent of Acute Care occupancy and the City had 100 percent ICU and 100 percent Acute Care surge capacity. The latest data from the Federal Health and Human Services department shows last week that SFGH had 5 Covid patients and 83 percent ICU occupancy.. The Citywide weekly average positivity rate has fallen to its lowest level since the pandemic began. According to California's DPH, the state's most recent 7-day average positivity rate has sunk to .9 percent. It's the "California Miracle" 2.0 There have been 0 nursing home deaths reported in SF since January 19. There have been 0 new cases reported since April 17. In Single Room Occupancy Hotels (SROs) there have been 34 cases and 0 deaths since March 23. Covid-related death numbers are anythng but static. According to DPH today, the 541st death was reported on May 8, and is the only Covid-related SF death in May. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.