We tracked the Covid-19 numbers for the last six weeks here. That was entirely in the SIP timeframe, but things are loosening up in multiple directions now. Restaurants are reopening for dine-in service, non-essential stores are allowing limited numbers of people at a time, and churches are resuming live services; outdoors and with waivers in some cases. Essential stores are pretty crowded; Lowe's for example. The county as had several large demonstrations where social distancing was ignored. It feels like we might be at a tipping point in the coming week or two, so here are the baseline figures today from the county site at SMChealth.org.
In our county of 759,000 people 46,480 have been tested (about 6%). The positivity rate has been declining and is now 5.4% — meaning we have either 2,528 or 2,553 cases –both numbers appear on the same data page. That's about 335 cases per 100,000. NYC has 2,460 cases per 100,000–more than seven times as many. The age distribution of cases in San Mateo County has shifted to younger people with 50% being in their 20's, 30's and 40's.
Let's see how things look again in a week.
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