Covid-19 Tracker: Rising R Number Estimates

San Francisco CA

08 December, 2021

6:27 AM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local December 6, 2021 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. R Number estimates for San Francisco and California have been generally below 1 for most of the month of November. They appear to have taken a recent jump (see below) as hospitlizations tick upwards though case numbers and positivity rates remain static. Almost all the covid news over the weekend were panic reports on Omicron. No reason for panic, says UCSF researcher Diane Havlir. 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.