Good Morning, Mission! Welcome to Virus Village, your daily Covid-19 data dump.
Operation Snail’s Pace got a shot in the arm yesteday from the incompetent bureaucrats of the outgoing Trump Maladministration. Although some docs (and Biden team) have called for releasing all vaccine supplies now rather than holding on for second doses, this move by itself may cause more confusion without solving any of the production and distribution problems. Another Big Pharma developer received a billion dollars for big promises that won’t be kept.
On the local front, the Vaccination did not come this morning. Local officials assure us they have plan.
Luis DeJesus, brother of Police Commissioner Petra De Jesus, received at least six excessive force complaints and was involved in at least three officer-involved shootings. No problem. He currently serves as an SFPD sergeant earning $150,000 a year.
Ignoring police misconduct not only provokes more of the same, and it may also cost the City (i.e. taxpayers) millions of dollars.
Throughout 2020, the Mission has been the center of the pandemic in San Francisco.
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Scroll down for today’s Covid numbers.
From January 1 through January 10, Latinx cases have risen over 11 percent, Asians 10 percent, Blacks 5 percent and Whites 31 percent.
Local hospitals continue to fill up. Today’s numbers include 4 more ICU patients. For the week ending January 11, the weekly change in Covid positive patients rose another 17 percent. During the week ending January 11, the seven-day average availability of ICU beds was 26 percent and for Acute Care beds 23 percent. On January 11, DPH reports 64 ICU beds and 348 Acute Care beds available. DPH does not report if available beds are staffed, but continues to assert 100 percent of required PPE on hand.
Concerned about what’s happening in local, state and national ICUs? You should be.
Since Sunday, Unidos en Salud have administered 1859 tests, of which 1398 have been to Latinx residents. Between January 1 and January 10, the Citywide Latinx positivity rate was 13.96 percent.
San Francisco’s current Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is .86.
“DPH does not report if available beds are staffed”
The Californian data dashboard (https://covid19.ca.gov/state-dashboard/) only includes staffed ICU beds in their count; it currently shows 52 beds available in SF county (this may be more recent than the SF DPH data), a drop of 14 (!) since the previous day. It might be worth trying to combine these datasets somehow.