12-13-2022, 12:10 PM
We can't say "It's back" since it never left. Â There has been talk of the tripledemic and it is upon us. Â I'm not going to talk about RSV or Influenza here. Â They are serious on their own, and now they're adding to the strain of the US health system.
The major paper of Santa Clara county hid that the county moved into the CDC's High Community Transmission Level in the middle of the 6th paragraph of a single article last week. Â The Santa Clara County Public Health Department didn't acknowledge this transition or advise its citizens through a press release.
Monday's San Francisco Chronicle has a story (probably behind a paywall)
 "COVID cases are soaring in S.F. and L.A. — but one of them is doing worse"
The picture with it is of a SF Giants - LA Dodgers game with someone holding up a "Beat L.A." sign.
It was from the COVID era (July 2021). Â While it was outdoors, 47 pictured fans have no mask, 2 wear a mask, and 1 has a mask below his chin.
The numbers for L.A. are a bit worse, but S.F. is getting there.
The amount of COVID in the SF Bay Area, judging from the sewage, is the highest it has ever been - beating the Omicron (BA.1) peak from January or the summer peak (BA.2) and dwarfing the Delta peak. Â Most people are spreading it without regard to others' health.
A couple of weeks back, a SF Supervisor said Fentanyl was "driving the largest public health calamity since AIDS"  The author of the article using that quote without any context to show its blindness.  (CDC reports the lowest weekly death toll (since April 2020) with COVID as a cause is 1,344 (w.e. 4/23/22), and reported that in 2017 the death toll with a HIV-related cause was 5,534 for the entire year.)
I know several 65+ year-old people with (possible) COVID. Â One refused a test. Â Another didn't bother with a test when her son (who gave it to her at Thanksgiving, where he (a nurse) knew he was sick) tested positive, thus preventing her from getting Paxlovid.
The major paper of Santa Clara county hid that the county moved into the CDC's High Community Transmission Level in the middle of the 6th paragraph of a single article last week. Â The Santa Clara County Public Health Department didn't acknowledge this transition or advise its citizens through a press release.
Monday's San Francisco Chronicle has a story (probably behind a paywall)
 "COVID cases are soaring in S.F. and L.A. — but one of them is doing worse"
The picture with it is of a SF Giants - LA Dodgers game with someone holding up a "Beat L.A." sign.
It was from the COVID era (July 2021). Â While it was outdoors, 47 pictured fans have no mask, 2 wear a mask, and 1 has a mask below his chin.
The numbers for L.A. are a bit worse, but S.F. is getting there.
The amount of COVID in the SF Bay Area, judging from the sewage, is the highest it has ever been - beating the Omicron (BA.1) peak from January or the summer peak (BA.2) and dwarfing the Delta peak. Â Most people are spreading it without regard to others' health.
A couple of weeks back, a SF Supervisor said Fentanyl was "driving the largest public health calamity since AIDS"  The author of the article using that quote without any context to show its blindness.  (CDC reports the lowest weekly death toll (since April 2020) with COVID as a cause is 1,344 (w.e. 4/23/22), and reported that in 2017 the death toll with a HIV-related cause was 5,534 for the entire year.)
I know several 65+ year-old people with (possible) COVID. Â One refused a test. Â Another didn't bother with a test when her son (who gave it to her at Thanksgiving, where he (a nurse) knew he was sick) tested positive, thus preventing her from getting Paxlovid.