San Francisco has emerged something of a bright spot in California's battle against COVID-19, but it's too early to relax, officials say.
Latinos make up a lower percentage of coronavirus deaths in L.A. County relative to their share of the population, according to preliminary data.Colfax said the shelter-in-place order, implemented March 16, three days ahead of a statewide order, “appears to have slowed the spread of the coronavirus in San Francisco.”
But it’s not surprising that hospitalizations are still continuing to climb, Colfax said, because the virus is extremely transmissible. While San Francisco’s increase in cases is slower than in hot spots around the country like New York City, Colfax warned, “this could change any day. When this virus takes off, it can really take off.”
He said there are still too many cases of coronavirus in San Francisco for officials to do intense investigations of each new case, and to identify that person’s close contacts so they can be told to quarantine themselves to determine whether they’ll get sick. Colfax compared the current outbreak to fighting a fire sweeping through the city. If public health officials are able to extinguish the broader fire of coronavirus cases throughout the city, then officials can focus on containing small flare-ups of virus activity when they arise.
“Our goal is to have a robust team of disease control investigators who can immediately respond to those sparks so we do not return to a situation where we have widespread community transmission today,” he said.
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