Covid-19 Tracker: The Long Way Down

San Francisco CA

22 February, 2022

7:21 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local February 21, 2022 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. With a long way to go, hospitalizations, positivity rates and recorded infections continue trending downward while recent R Number models show San Francisco well below 1. Through most of 2020 and into 2021, lockdowns, masking and other public health non-pharmaceutical interventions were predicated upon protecting hospitals from getting overwhelmed. Has the experience of the past two years changed matters? It does not appear so. "Wealthier hospitals with the capacity to take patients from safety net and rural hospitals crushed by Covid aren't incentivized to do so. It makes more sense for them to keep more lucrative elective surgeries and other procedures going." 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.