Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump.
Trust in government is critical in containing Covid-19.
During her campaign against the initiative to tax the City’s biggest corporations to pay for housing and services for the unhoused, Mayor Breed famously argued that “government” (which she heads) could not be trusted to use the money wisely and efficiently to address the problem. Former Mayors Newsom and Brown agreed. Regardless, voters disagreed and approved Prop C, which quickly went to the courts. Yesterday the Supreme Court denied the challenges to Prop C, so now she’s got the money.
Can Breed and her government be trusted?
Scroll down for the Covid numbers, which are somewhat better than the air.
HiGeorge, a data visualization startup, developed some new visualizations for Mission Local, which we will be using and fine-tuning in the days to come.
Eighteen cases were added overnight to the Mission’s total which now stands at 1378. A few weeks ago, Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax said the time for analyzing and reporting tests has been improved.
Delays nonetheless continue to show up. DPH still says numbers that are less than a week old are “less reliable”. The seven-day average number of daily cases for the week ending September 3 is 68, or 7.8 per 100,000 residents, the lowest its been in two months.
The estimated R number model we primarily use continues to show SF around .96. And ensemble of various models suggests it might be lower, around .90.
The seven-day rolling average of positive cases for the week ending September 3 remains 2.11 percent.
The number of hospitalizations reported on Tuesday remains at 80. In ICU 95 beds are available; in Acute Care 452.
3 percent of the positive cases and 1 percent of the Covid deaths are those “experiencing homelessness”
Although most Covid deaths are people of color, it appears the latest deaths may have been whites. Again, it’s difficult to tell given what we get from DPH.
I doubt if Prop C money goes to the needy.
According to Forbes,
“…the city is in trouble. Whenever we open the books, San Francisco consistently ranks among the worst tax-and-spend offenders.
In fact, the city’s $1.5 billion budget deficit isn’t stopping 18,759 highly compensated employees from each bringing home pay packages worth $150,000 (or more) annually.
We found truck drivers loaded up with $262,898; city painters making $270,190; firefighters earning $316,306; and plumbing supervisors cleaning up $348,291 every year. One deputy sheriff earned $574,595 last year – including $315,896 in overtime.
On average, the city’s 44,526 employees received pay and perks costing taxpayers $131,335 apiece. Four out of ten – 18,749 city workers – received a compensation package exceeding $150,000 per year.
The pay package includes retirement, health, overtime, pension, and other benefits on top of base salary.
Mayor’s Office – San Francisco Mayor London Breed cost taxpayers $452,421 – the highest paid mayor in the country. Breed enjoys a $342,974 salary and an additional $109,447 in benefit perks. Incredibly, there are another thirty-one staffers in her office with total comp exceeding $200,000 annually.”
The charts don’t always align with the text below them. Pretty confusing. For example, the Bay Area R Number chart shows SF at .87. The text says .96 or maybe around .90. This confusion isn’t new. It’s been like this since you started publishing this report.