COVID Tracker: Average Daily Cases Increase 1390 Percent Since June 15.

San Francisco CA

30 July, 2021

10:27 AM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local July 28, 2021 Good Morning Mission and welcome to Virus Village, your Covid data dump. Though case numbers have already surpassed last summer's surge, hospitalizations so far are a bit more than half of what they were. The San Francisco R Number has remained around 1.38, the same as the state, and indicative of the still rapidly spreading virus. In response to the rapidly increasing Delta variant, the CDC has changed its masking guidance, urging all people, vaccinated or not, to wear masks indoors. Nothing new on mask quality or masking at workplaces. A variety of talking heads are driving an angry response to the unvaccinated. The Republican governor of Alabama has gone so far as to "blame" the unvaccinated for the surge. Blaming and shaming has only provoked resistance so far in the pandemic and it will do the same this time. Without indulging in moral outrage state and local governments and private companies have begun instituting vaccine mandates among workers. Here in San Francisco over 300 private bars are requiring customers to prove vaccination to sit indoors and the City will require the same from new City workers. SFDPH continues to ignore a state law requiring reports on workplace outbreaks. When questionned, DPH remains silent. For its part the state has been issuing opaque and incomplete reports. The most recent report shows that after almost 18 months of Covid, the most dangerous settings are still nursing homes. Kudos to the Governor and CalOsha. Earlier in the week Dr. Fauci requested several billions of dollars for a program to develop prototype" vaccines to protect against 20 families of viruses. Wait a minute! Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the kind of program (verbal tricks aside) the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was funding in Wuhan and other places (for the past two decades) that may have led to a lab leak? Whether or not that proves to have been the case, it doesn't take rocket science, or virology, to warn that such a program, without extremely stringent and enforced regulation, could turn into a disaster. Scroll down for today's numbers. The CDC data used for the chart lags behind the data supplied from SFDPH. As of July 27, DPH reports 76 percent of all San Francisco residents have received one dose, and over 69 percent are completely vaccinated. On July 27, the seven-day rolling average of shots per day was 490.For information on where to get vaccinated in and around the Mission, visit our Vaccination Page. Vaccination rates seem to make little difference in neighborhood case counts. Between May 24 and July 23, DPH recorded 234 new cases among Mission residents (76 percent vaccinated), or 40 new cases per 10,000 residents. The only other SF neighborhood reporting in excess of 200 cases was Bayview Hunters Point with 314 new cases for a rate of 83 new cases per 10,000 residents. Remember, Bayview Hunters Point has one of the highest vaccination rates in the City (82 percent). Lakeshore, the least vaccinated neighborhood (41 percent), had 39 new cases and a new case rate of 26 new cases per 10,000 residents. Both in terms of raw and average case numbers, the City has surpassed last summer's surge. For the week ending July 23, the seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in the City rose to 149 new cases, or approximately 22.6 new cases per day per 100,000 residents (based on 659,000 total residents). Since June 15, when SF completely reopened, this figure has increased 1390 percent and the raw daily case number has increased 2500 percent!! Early indications suggest more exponential growth on the way. Between July 1 and July 23, DPH reports Whites had 819 new cases (31.9 percent), Latinx 521 new cases (20.3 percent) Asians 434 new cases (16.9 percent), Blacks 394 new cases (15.4 percent) Multi-racials 38 new cases (1.5 percent), Pacific Islanders 23 new cases (1.2 percent) and Native Americans 9 new cases (.4 percent) Since July 1, hospitalizations have risen 455 percent. SFDPH steadfastly provides the most opaque data on hospitalization. In addition to 0 demographic information, DPH refuses to break out vaccinated from unvaccinated patients. The latest report from the federal Department of Health and Human Services shows SFGH with 8 Covid patients and 81 percent ICU occupancy, while across the Mission, CPMC had 5 Covid patients and 41 percent ICU occupancy. Of 44 reported Covid patients, 21 were at either SFGH or UCSF. Since June 15, the Citywide average positivity rate has risen from .4 percent to 4.5 percent. As of July 23, Latinx residents had a positivity rate of 7.6 percent, Pacific Islanders 2.8 percent, Blacks 2.7 percent, Multi-racials 1.8 percent, Native Americans 1.8 percent, Asians 1.7 percent and Whites 1.4 percent. Approximately 60 percent of July cases are from those San Franciscans aged 21-39. Those 70 and above make up less than 3 percent of the cases and almost 75 percent of the deaths. San Francisco recorded its third July Covid-related death on July 16, bringing the total to 561. Only 17 had no "underlying conditions". 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.