Even as the number of new cases spiked over the weekend, patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in San Francisco and San Mateo counties decreased to their lowest levels since the onset of the outbreak.
Both counties have seen their case counts increase 15% since Friday. San Francisco added 59 new cases Monday to bring its total to 1,216, while San Mateo reported 82 new cases for a total of 920.
There were no new hospitalizations in San Francisco in new data reported Monday after that number fell a day earlier to its lowest since March 4. There were 77 COVID-19 patients in hospital beds across the city and 27 intensive care units — a fraction of the city’s 591 total ICUs and 1,677 acute-care beds.
In San Mateo County, 15 intensive-care beds have opened up in recent days, while total hospitalizations fell as low as 49 over the weekend. That number increased to 61 in data reported Monday, ICU patients in the county has fallen to 16. The county reported 37 ICU beds and 191 ventilators still available.
San Francisco also over the weekend released more demographic data on the 20 deaths from COVID-19 in the city. It has previously reported case data, which showed the Hispanic and Latinx community accounted for 26% of known cases vs. 15% of the overall population. Of the 20 people who have died, 11 have been Asian (55% of deaths vs. 35% of population), three were white (15% vs. 40%) and three were black (15% vs. 5%). There was one death among Hispanics.
Men account for the majority of deaths in both counties, about 60% in San Mateo and 65% in San Francisco. But there were still more confirmed cases among women in San Mateo County, 54% to 46%.
Between the counties’ 48 combined fatalities, only three have come among those under the age of 60.
The next death in the Bay Area will be the region’s 200th. Across its 10 counties, with a population of 8 million, there were more than 6,400 cases and 199 fatalities from the virus Sunday evening, according to data compiled by this news organization. Statewide, the death toll went over 1,000 on Friday, while the total number of confirmed cases crossed 30,000 on Saturday.
