Covid-19 Tracker: No End In Sight?

San Francisco CA

26 May, 2022

4:50 PM

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By Mark Rabine, Mission Local May 25, 2022 Good morning, Mission, and welcome to Virus Village, your (somewhat regular) Covid-19 data dump. Hospitalizatons, recorded infections and positivity rates continue to climb, as R Number models remain static. The good news, and reason for the question mark is that current wastewater measures have leveled or declined a bit. Whether or not this surge (swell, wave, bump) begins to decline there's a lot more covid on the near horizon, as new, more transmissible sub-variants take hold. Could this be why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun to urge a second booster? However, true to form, at the same time the CDC worries that updating the vaccine may send the wrong message. Will we have have a new vaccine in time for next winter's surge? Not if Congress has its way. 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.