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By | | , , , , , |Marta Sanchez and her daughter Ciara. going door-to-door for the Mission’s testing campaign. Photo by Lydia ChávezThe San Francisco Department of Public Health provides updates daily at 9 a.m. We will do the same.Since April 27, an average of 1,200 test results was reported per day – a big increase but .And the city announced today that it will be mandating .In other news, , including one in critical condition, last night.Need a break from your apartment? Visit the city, by from different parts of the city.If you want to hear the top doctors talk about the coronavirus, joinSonoma County has an in all Bay Area counties that is useful to look at.And here is their dashboard for***KeepTags: • •It would be great if you would ask for testing numbers, testing availability, cases, hospitalizations, ICU beds used, ventilators in use and available, as well as deaths. And projections.And where are we in the triage protocol?We really should have complete and current information from SF DPH. Very frustrating to be left in the dark out here.Thank you for this series.Am I mis-understanding or am I spotting an error?The sectionCOMPARISON: DATA RECEIVED TODAY FROM 7 DAYS AGOseems to actually be the data from 1 day ago.ThanksStop being misleading with your titles. You knowingly wrote the title to make it seem as if the death rate was 8% not a total of 8. This is basic in writing about statistical information, you don’t jump from percentages to a total number.You are part of the problem. The title should be something such as: cases up 7.4%, deaths at 1.4%.Or are you intentionally trying to spread more fear and panic?I read that Los Angeles county posts detailed information showing locations of outbreak clusters- I think SF should be doing the same thing. If we could see a map that shows where clusters of outbreaks are taking place I think it would help a LOT.Thank you SO much for aggregating this data. It’s crazy that SFDPH isn’t doing this (publicly, at least.) As I haven’t seen our data plotted on a graph, I did it myself:I’ll try to keep it updated.I wouldn’t shoot the messenger. Thanks for the work that you are doing.San Francisco may have one of the “least robust websites”, but it also has one of the best responses to the pandemic in the entire country.It’s about priorities. To me, keeping people alive and healthy is an order of magnitude more important than having a “dashboard” for armchair epidemiologists to fiddle around with. Not even close.ya, it doesn’t have to be an either-or scenario – sonoma county is having no problem. Beyond that the bay area is full of people with backgrounds in biological sciences who understand that data (not to mention loads of data scientists), and even if someone doesn’t have that background doesn’t mean the data shouldn’t be sharedGood story, Loi Almeron! It’s so important to let the public know what is known and not known, and why.The county is now posting more data, with graphs and everything: .I heard in South Korea, people get notified on where about the infected person has been around, so that people could avoid that area for a while until disinfecting team go into the place first to clean that area, so that if you were in the same path as the infected person about the same time in that area, you know you have to get tested immediately. They check the infected person’s route by cell phone tracing, credit card usage data, and by interviewing infected person. All this happens literally immediately, so that it could go out to people via text message at once without revealing the person’s name. It says e.g. “woman in 50′ found positive for coronavirus, she took #38 bus on x-day between 8~9am…. etc. etc. ” revealing all the routes. I think it’s a great system to get text message immediately and just be very open about it, so that we all know the fact. Another big thing is that I’ve been insisting wearing mask since January. I hardly can’t believe our Gov. could be this stupid until now. Mask is a common sense 1,2,3. Instead of waiting for perfect mask, just wear anything available for now. It’ll protect you and others around you. People who was talking so smart that regular mask wouldn’t protect you… blah blah blah, OMG! They need to wake up! 50% protection is better than nothing. On top of that, if you sneeze, it’ll protect other people around you. More chance to save lives. And I wouldn’t recommend not wearing shoes at home. This is another common sense 1,2,3 that people are missing out. God help us all!A group of us are organizing a grassroots volunteer effort to track hospital beds/ventilator capacity numbers by asking people working inside the hospital to share anonymously on a daily basis.This is critical for rapid response. Not so much for the public, but for the teams in the hospitals to coordinate with neighboring regional hospitals. When the surge hits an area, this information is know where patients can be moved or rerouted.Given the speed of this pandemic, we feel it is going to be most effective to just bypass the current system and enable person-to-person information sharing. We received no reply back from our contact requests with Dept of Health at city and state level, so we’re not going to wait until the surge is here.We are using free tools everyone already knows and uses (google sheets, facebook, html, etc)We have a website up with the current numbers by hospital, separated by state. These floor/ICU bed numbers are just baseline from census, not updated by us yet. All relevant links are here:Additionally, we have a charting tool that show current data by county, state, and US county. You can pick which areas of interest to compare, and share the charts quickly.It might be worth noting that the SF Data Tracker on DataSF and the data in your table is not consistent. The data from PDH that was updated once a day was probably not consistently reported and often delayed.I’m noticing that the new data shows a more consistent declining growth rate in the last few days whereas the old data was all over the place.At this point are the new cases being driven by additional testing or continued spread? Do we know? I’d love to get some insight on that.Compared to Sonoma’s coverage () San Francisco County’s communication is embarrassing, considering we’re the epicenter of the tech world.Thanks for your service on this.Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases in San FranciscoTotal Positive Cases: 797Deaths: 13updated daily at 9:00 AMDoes anyone know why the number of positive tests reported on the testing results table above and in the SF Data Tracker on DataSF is not consistent with the number of new cases reported daily by the SF department of health?How come they never release any informations on the victims, as they do in every other city?“The latest daily count of six new confirmed cases is the lowest daily count recorded since March 20 when the city reported 8 new cases.”6 is lower than 8. This is a common nonsensical mistake in journalism that I really don’t understand.This sentence should have read: “The latest daily count of six new confirmed cases is the lowest daily count recorded since March 16 when the city reported three new cases; six new cases were also reported on March 19.”Curious if there are any demographics on the new cases. We’re all quarantined, so curious if the new cases are from hospital workers, bus drivers, people violating the quarantine? Let’s tighten this up!anything you can do about the bar chart in the ‘suspected’ cases section moving from right-to-left instead of the expected left-to-right? this threw me off for a minute.“”On the same day, San Francisco tested 814 persons and 32 percent came back positive with COVID-19.””That’s scary high **32%* positive.I didn’t always pay attention in math class, but wouldn’t 32% be about 260 positive, but the Total results didn’t go up that much in a day. Can some explain for me?The numbers for Fri Apr 17 changed from yesterday to today (Apr 18-19). ‘CityTestSF, the city’s newest testing facility for frontline workers and eligible residents, opened and began drive-through operations on Friday. On the same day, San Francisco tested 814 persons and 32 percent came back positive with COVID-19. This is the highest number of testings done throughout the city in one day. It also shows the highest positive testing rate…’ That’s 814 tests with 259 positive. Now it shows a meager 454 tests with only 10%, 45 positive. The fact that the number of confirmed cases on any given day never matches the positive test count on the same day is asinine, but when the testing results can just disappear, it’s hard to believe that any of the numbers are real.Yesterday you reported 814 tests were done on Friday with 259 positive for covid. Was this wrong? What happened to that data – it doesn’t seem reflected in the current totals.ThanksCampers,You have to have caught this episode, of …“How to teach your child to do online interviews ….”Kid’s name is Leo and he’s got some energy.Eskenazi’s the best political writer in town for years now.Go Giants!h.I like the ground rounds at UCSFThe President just suggested people consider injecting themselves with disinfectants.Doctors looking on did not directly interrupt and say “whoa whoa whoa…”I want names and locations of asses to kick on this RIGHT NOW, medical certification boards!PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THIS COUNTRY AND WE’RE ALLOWING THIS TO CONTINUE FOR REPUBLICAN POLITICS?Then the wrong people are dying of this disease and god help us all if every last one of these Jim Jordan types has to physically GO before they admit it’s a serious thing! 50,000 DEAD AND THAT IDIOT WON’T WEAR A MASK? Officer arrest that IDIOT and be careful about it!It’s tiresome being older and constantly having to dodge others who couldn’t care less. I wish the face-covering requirement was enforced. At Ocean Beach April 25 few wore coverings, although most Asians did. I wish the national and local press would attempt to stay focused on the issues and facts and keep asking the same unanswered questions — Why no enforcement, and why are some states/ locales opening up while new cases are not declining? Does that mean current rates of new case counts and deaths are acceptable? Is that the message leaders want to communicate to those couldn’t care less? What is the acceptable trade-off for COVID-19 risks versus economic and related risks? What is the plan to obtain and distribute masks? Produce and distribute a vaccine when one becomes available? What is the federal government doing to make it possible to get to a day when it is safe to engage in normal economic activity? – For example, is any factor beyond profit motive really driving production of effective testing; PPE production/availability; preparation for producing and rolling out a vaccine; funding research on understanding and treating COVID-19-related ARDS, kidney failure, blood-clotting strokes and arrhythmia? This disease is ICU hell. Media need to hold officials’ feet to the fire. Journalists should dig in and push back, not look for new, shiny objects every day, and they should not go off on stories telling people how they can distract themselves while putting up with the insufficiently reported failures of American power brokers to anticipate and respond forcefully and effectively to protect the public health and economy at large.Do you find anything striking about the numbers?“all 22 people who have died had underlying health conditions while 21 people were over 60 years old.”what is the yearly rate of premature death in SF? are we going to use the number above to establish what is the new acceptable rate for all premature death related to un-necessary activities in the city?What about all the people that have critical medical conditions that could not get treated and will results in premature death?Coronavirus is on every Continent – it arrived via Mass TransportationMUNI &amp; Coronavirus – UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED – MASKS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO STOP IT“This is not a replacement for staying home and physical distancing, but it is an important step for safety.”Mayor London Breed – April 17, 2020 – ‘Mask directive Tweet’Below – advice from APTA – American Public Transit Association“Separate people from the contamination” Plexiglas barriers for drivers“Social Distancing”Maintain a space of 3-6 feet between personsMetropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit AuthorityPlaced seat-blocking placardsto prevent riders from sitting too close to each otherAPTA’s COVID-19 Bulletin – 4/24/2020SFMTA MUNI – Has not implemented necessary devices &amp; enforcement for ‘Social Distancing’. Mayor Breed, declared a ‘State of Emergency’ and can order them to do so. Contact the Mayors Office!When people are waiting for a bus, they are pedestrians. Once people are on a bus, they are passengers. MUNI must take every precaution, when passengers leave the bus, they are not infected pedestrians!Contact your District Supervisor &amp; SF Health Department, demand action to protect the riding public.Please pass this along to friends, family, employers and concerned public officialsMichael B. Cheney – Retired San Francisco Civil Servant / ‘Mr. Fix-It’ SF Weekly, June 2013Content?oid=2826403I am confused by the two sets of hospitalization data that don’t quite agree with eachother – can the editors/author explain? for example, in the section titled ‘Hospitalizations throughout San Francisco’, for April 25 it says under confirmed cases that there were 54 in acute care plus 31 in ICU for a total of 85 hospitalized patients. under suspected cases, the breakdown is 38 in acute care and 4 in ICU, for a total of 42 suspected. but if you scroll down to the section titled ‘Hospital Data – San Francisco County’, the numbers for April 25 are: 73 total (not 85), 29 ICU (not 31), and suspected 18 total (not 42) and 3 ICU (not 4).Just three weeks ago, Doctor Fauci lowered the estimate of US deaths from 200,000 to 60,000, but here we are at over 60,000 deaths. And it doesn’t seem to have ended.Thanks for reporting the numbers.Today’s report noted that Mission District still has the most number of confirmed cases in city at 187, and that it ranks fifth at 25 confirmed cases per 10,000 residents. When the number of confirmed cases in zip codes were first reported on 4/20, Mission District (94110) had 171 cases. Over 8 days, the 94110 increase was 16 cases or 9%.North of Mission / western SOMA (94103) is highest in city with 45 confirmed cases per 10,000 residents. 94103 went from 80 cases on 4/20 to 117 cases on 4/28. Over the same 8 days, the 94103 increase was 37 cases or 46%.The number of tests and the percent of positive tests are not published per zip code so it cannot be determined if the difference is due to testing or reflects an actual difference in rate of infection. Note “rate of infection” here refers to how fast the infection is spreading and not to the number of cases per 10,000 residents as used in today’s report. Over a longer period of time, the change in number of confirmed cases per zip code could possibly provide a basis for comparing how fast the infection is spreading in different zip code areas during that period of time.Only 4% of those tested this last week in the Mission have been exposed? I was sure it would be 20% or something. But only 4%? That would mean that we have pretty much stifled the virus (pat on the back) but also that we are where we were in early March facing the virus. Almost none of us have had it. Without a game changing treatment that means that we will be faced with a choice between store fronts covered in plywood or a wave of infections for the rest of 2020. Open the schools and see the infection spread among well children and taken home to kill old and sickly folks in their homes. No easy exit here.-----﻿

By | | , , , , , |Marta Sanchez and her daughter Ciara. going door-to-door for the Mission’s testing campaign. Photo by Lydia ChávezThe San Francisco Department of Public Health provides updates daily at 9 a.m. We will do the same.Since April 27, an average of 1,200 test results was reported per day – a big increase but .And the city announced today that it will be mandating .In other news, , including one in critical condition, last night.Need a break from your apartment? Visit the city, by from different parts of the city.If you want to hear the top doctors talk about the coronavirus,...

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