Covid-19 Tracker: The Virus Doesn't Wait For Omicron

San Francisco CA

12 December, 2021

5:42 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local December 10, 2021 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. Despite all the worry over the new variant, the old variant appears to be back in business, as cases rose more than 25 percent between Wednesday's report and today's. Hospitalizations have been mostly static over the week, and positivity rates actually declined, while R Number estimates continue to suggest the the virus spread is increasing. On the omicron front, researchers continue to report high spread and low severity, but it's far too soon to tell if that's true or what it means. Whether it's omicron or delta, as the Atlantic reports, for vaccinated and unvaccinated alike it could be a grim winter. 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.