“We’ve got a lot of virus circulating now. And it’s on its way up,” said Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody at a press briefing earlier this week.While case numbers are going up across the state, one region’s transmission levels are much higher than the rest: The Bay Area.
The CDC’s color-coded “County Tracker” tool indicates that, while the rest of the state is at the green or “Low” level of transmission, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco Counties have all moved into the yellow, or “Medium” level of community spread.
See map below.By contrast, the state’s largest metropolis is still in the green, according to the CDC. Local health officials report that cases are rising in Los Angeles, from 2,484 last Wednesday to 2,997 today, a jump of 20% in the past week, but not nearly so fast as they are in the Bay Area.
The 7-day average number of daily new cases reported in L.A. increased to 2,532 today. While data for San Francisco County cases in incomplete for the past few days, the 7-day average of new cases, last updated a week ago on the county Covid dashboard, was already about even with the high point of last summer’s Delta wave at 283 last week vs.
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