COVID cases have slowly but steadily ticked up across the majority of the Bay Area since mid-March.
In San Francisco, the 7-day average test positivity rate is at 5.2 percent. On March 16, the 7-day test positivity rate was 2.4 percent.
Still, many people who live in the Bay Area aren’t as concerned about this case increase as they were about previous spikes. “I think folks’ attitudes have changed about it in terms of maybe not being as fearful about it. I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad thing,” said Gerard Ayala, a San Francisco resident. “I think my attitude has changed as well. Maybe not as fearful now that I have had it and have been through the experience.”
Although cases are on the rise, UCSF infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong doesn’t want to classify what’s happening right now as a surge. “We have a very dramatic decoupling so far between what we see in the community and what we see in the hospitals. Of course, hospitalizations lag cases in the community, traditionally, but these cases have been going up for some time and we still haven’t seen a big impact in the hospitals,” Dr. Chin-Hong said. “I think two weeks would give enough time to make sure that lag won’t be reflected in the hospitals.
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