Covid-19 Tracker: A Jump In Hospitalizations

San Francisco CA

09 December, 2021

7:57 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local December 8, 2021 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. Covid hospitaliztions have jumped from 21 to 35 in a week as infections and positivity rates have also begun rising again and R Number estimates show increased virus spread. Early reports on Omicron are preliminary, fragmented, self-interested or sketchy. The latest from the EU (where there are almost as many cases as in Southern Africa but no travel ban) shows all cases were either asymptomatic or mild. Dr. Fauci interprets the data to mean the variant "might" be less severe, "certainly not more severe" than Delta. 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.