The San Francisco Department of Public Health provides daily updates each morning. We will do the same.
The most recent numbers from the Health Department show 26 newly announced confirmed cases, and one new death.
The new fatality released today was retroactively added to the tally with a date of May 8. We’ve asked the Health Department why it took three weeks for information about the death to be released.
Of the 26 new cases, most were added with confirmation dates of the past few days, but it also included cases retroactively added with dates of March 6, March 8, and April 21.
For the second day in a row, no new hospitalization data was released. According to the city’s website, the dataset is being updated, but the most recent information it contains is from Wednesday. The hospitalization data is typically only two days behind. We’ve asked the Health Department when the information will be released.
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Please note:
The embedded data tracker below will continue to be updated daily after this post is published.
For the number of confirmed cases each day, our tracker is tracking the date on which the Health Department announced new confirmed cases, not the date which the department said those cases were confirmed on.
There is a discrepancy between the total number of positive test results reported by the city and the total daily number of confirmed cases. The discrepancy comes from a delay in fully investigating positive test results. In doing so, health investigators find some duplicates and some are for people who live outside of the city, according to epidemiologists at the Department of Public Health. New cases are only added to the daily confirmed cases after an investigation is completed.
Also, there is also a discrepancy between the hospitalization data reported by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and the county hospital data reported by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). This is because SFDPH receives data from one additional hospital, San Francisco VA Health Care System, that is not required to report to CDPH. “SFDPH statistics will trend higher as long as this hospital has patients admitted as either COVID-19 positive or suspected COVID-19 positive.”
