In San Francisco, doctors are seeing a 'steady increase' of COVID cases with about 200 people testing positive for COVID per day -- which doctors believe doesn't include all of the cases that go unreported.
SAN FRANCISCO -- COVID cases throughout the Bay Area have been increasing for the past two weeks.
surge our peak of the Delta surge was about 50 cases per day. On average. We are already exceeding what that peak was with the delta surge," said Dr. Matt Willis, Marin County's Public Health Officer.Marin County faced a similar surge in December, but Dr. Willis is not worried. He says hospitalizations are not going up this time around.
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