Good morning Mission. And welcome to Virus Village, your daily data dump. Testing again. I know it sounds like a broken record, but without widespread testing with 24 to 48 hour analysis and reporting, there is no way to adequately control the virus spread at this point short of strict lockdown, which some have already […]
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Covid Tracker: 8053 cases, 69 deaths
Good morning Mission. And welcome to Virus Village, your daily data dump. During the UCSF Grand Rounds yesterday, there were discussions on “herd immunity,”cheap fast testing and healthcare worker stories. “Herd immunity” is a term which has been thrown around without much care during the pandemic. In a nuanced and intelligent conversation, Dr. Trevor Bedford […]
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Covid Tracker: 7326 cases, 64 deaths
Good morning Mission. And welcome to Virus Village, your daily data dump. More on the fog of numbers. San Francisco’s Department of Public Health announced yesterday that due to the glitch in the state’s reporting system for test results, it would “pause” in reporting contact tracing metrics. Although delays and undereporting impact what contact tracing […]
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Covid Tracker: 6575 cases, 59 deaths
Good morning Mission. And welcome to Virus Village, your daily data dump. Last fall, the Global Health Index released a chart showing which countries were best and worst to respond to a pandemic outbreak. Coming in first place was the United States! (Whoo Hoo!!). Second was the United Kingdom. So much for modeling excercises. So […]
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Covid Tracker: 115 new cases, 1 new death.
Good morning Mission. And welcome to Virus Village, your daily data dump. If you haven’t already, I urge you to read Madison’s article on the UCSF Grand Rounds. Yesterday afternoon’s episode included conversations with docs from Miami, Atlanta and Houston. Yes, things are bad, and they aren’t getting much better. But the real import of […]
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Grupo de Trabajo Latino emerge para enfrentar al COVID-19
Traducción por: Neus Valencia En un vecindario que rápidamente cerró sus negocios y parecía abandonado para finales de marzo, resultaba difícil no preguntarse qué pasaría con la gran población de inmigrantes en el Distrito de la Misión. Niñeras, albañiles y pequeños empresarios que estaban desempleados o que se aventuraban a ir a trabajar a los […]
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The Latino Task Force emerges to take on COVID-19
At a time when gentrification seemed to blunt the power of Latino activists, the Latino Task Force is fighting back In a neighborhood that quickly boarded up and felt abandoned by the end of March, it was hard not to wonder what would happen to the Mission District’s large immigrant population. Nannies, construction workers, and […]
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Daily COVID-19 data tracker: 38 new cases, no new deaths
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 38 new cases and no new deaths. Most of the cases were confirmed on Tuesday and Wednesday, but a handful were also added with confirmation dates throughout the month […]
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Daily COVID-19 data tracker: 31 new cases, no new deaths
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 31 new cases and no new deaths. Twenty-nine cases were confirmed on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday this week. Five more were retroactively added with confirmation dates throughout March, April, […]
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Daily COVID-19 data tracker: 17 new cases, no new deaths
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 17 newly reported confirmed cases, and no new deaths as of yesterday. Those additional 17 cases weren’t diagnosed on Saturday, though. As we reported yesterday, the city has recently […]
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Daily COVID-19 data tracker: 122 new cases, 3 new deaths (updated)
The San Francisco Department of Public Health provides daily updates each morning. We will do the same. Update, 5:10 p.m. Sorry for the delay, but we did get an explanation of the big one-day 122 jump in cases. “We have switched to a new data tracking system and there was a one-day bump as some […]
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San Francisco Summer camp is on — in “pods” of 12
San Francisco’s summer camps and programs for six to 17-year-olds can reopen on June 15, Mayor London Breed announced today. And to limit viral transmission, children will be associating in “pods” of 12 over three-week summer camp sessions. “Depending on what space a camp uses, a camp may be able to have only one pod […]
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Daily figures on SF coronavirus cases: Confirmed cases up 2 percent and deaths remain at 36
The San Francisco Department of Public Health provides updates daily at 9 a.m. We will do the same. The latest count shows 40 new confirmed cases and no new deaths. In the past two weeks, we have averaged 36 new cases a day and a total of seven deaths. Public health officials want to see […]
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Dolores Park fills up late Friday, as health experts at UCSF town hall warn of the dangers
It’s Friday night and Dolores Park is full: groups are playing frisbee, breaking open six-packs, sipping wine in a glass. “The mayor will get wind of this,” said Police Officer A. Richmond, who was standing on Dolores Street getting ready to head back to her patrol car. The mayor on Monday threatened to close Dolores […]
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Census tract where massive COVID-19 testing will occur has a high concentration of immigrant workers
The Mission District census tract where public officials will begin a widespread COVID-19 testing campaign this week has the highest concentration of Latino residents in the city, according to the American Community Survey. Some 58 percent of the residents are Latino in Census Tract 229.01 — a rectangular expanse that runs from 23rd to Cesar […]