Covid Tracker: Has The Winter Wave Begun?

San Francisco CA

14 November, 2021

2:01 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local November 12, 2021 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. Average case numbers jumped over 25 percent this week. Hospitalizations, a lagging indicator, continue a downward trend, while the City's positivity rate remains somewhat stable, below 2 percent. R Number models continue flashing the red light with most showing the City's transmission rate over 1. As case numbers declined from the Delta surge, many began discounting case numbers as a useful indicator, arguing that with vaccination, many of the cases were asymptomatic or mild. Of course this has been true since the pandemic began. Many of the early aggregate numbers were heavily influenced by older and immunocompromised residents who were, and still are, more vulnerable to infection and severe disease than other population groups. 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.