Covid-19 Tracker: Stable Numbers

San Francisco CA

02 December, 2021

6:13 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local December 1, 2021 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. Hospitalizations continue to fluctuate in the low 20s and cases continue to fluctuate in the 50s. The positivity rate has been falling and the R Number estimates are below or slightly above 1. Not much happened over the weekend. Oh right, breathless news of the Omicron variant. We know the new variant exists and there are a lot of mutuations in the spike protein. Beyond that, a lot of fear-mongering, short-selling, and clickbait speculation. Most commentary I've seen conflates infection with illness, ignoring immune defenses that now exist due to vaccination and natural infection. 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.