Two Weeks After July 4th, Delta-Variant Surge Causes Spike In Bay Area Hospitalizations
COVID hospitalizations in San Francisco have doubled in the past two weeks, and across the Bay Area, the hospital count rose 12% on Monday alone. This is almost certainly due to the widespread mixing of unvaccinated people over the July Fourth holiday, and we are now hitting the two-week mark where a percentage of those infections are taking a serious turn.
The number of San Franciscans in hospitals with serious COVID-19 cases hit 46 on Monday, following two weeks in which daily new case rates have been rising in the city and elsewhere in the Bay Area and the state. The total number of Bay Area residents in hospitals with COVID (confirmed and suspected cases) hit 443, a jump of 47 cases or 11.9% between Sunday and Monday. That is almost exactly double the number of hospitalizations recorded on June 30, when 220 people were hospitalized with COVID in the region, and it mirrors the widespread surge in new infections seen across the country as more states and cities relaxed pandemic restrictions.