Covid-19 Tracker: Mixed Signals

San Francisco CA

06 October, 2021

7:46 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local October 6, 2021 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. Infection numbers, hospitalizations and positivity rates remain static, and some R Number models show San Francisco rising above 1 for the first time in over a month. Is the virus in retreat? Infection and hospitalization numbers are generally falling around the country. Cue a collective sigh of relief. Because of The Vaccine and natural immunity, some think we won't see the kind of spike we saw this summer again this winter, and others see this surge as covid's last hurrah. That may be true, but don't close the windows or throw away those masks just yet. The ebb in highly vaccinated SF has been slow, and the virus has an excellent track record of confounding the experts. To read the full article, click here. 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.