San Francisco and San Mateo County each recorded at least one death from coronavirus and a sharp spike in confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Friday, according to updates from health officials.
Three people were added to the death toll in San Francisco, bringing the city’s total to 40. San Mateo County also recorded one more death, its 76th of the pandemic.
Santa Clara County had suffered the Bay Area’s most deaths during the pandemic through Wednesday night, with 138. That county, along with Alameda and Contra Costa counties were expected to provide updates later Friday.
San Francisco also saw a huge leap in confirmed cases, added 122 more to its ledger and moving past 2,300 overall. San Mateo County also saw its biggest one-day jump in weeks, with 45 more cases moving its pandemic-total to 1,783.
Alameda County had confirmed the most cases in the Bay Area during the pandemic, with 2,609 through Wednesday night.
Statewide: Seven-day average climbs to new high
By the end of Thursday, the statewide case count totaled 88,323 and its seven-day average of new cases had climbed to a new high. For the first time of the outbreak, the state has reported at least 2,000 new cases for three days in a row, and it was averaging nearly that many (1,929.71) each day of the past week.
The state is also testing at its highest rate, up 20% since the previous week — about 45,000 per day — with about 4.1% coming back positive, down from 4.8% last Thursday.
Deaths are nearing a new peak statewide, as well, after another 105 fatalities from the virus were reported Thursday, increasing the death toll to 3,599. On three of the past seven days, there have been more than 2,000 new cases and over 100 deaths — a morbid milestone that hadn’t occurred prior to this week.
San Francisco: More than 100 new cases
The 122 new cases marked the biggest single-day spike in cases since at least March 27, according to tracking by this media company, and also comes after only 19 new cases had been added over the previous two days. The figure surpassed the 104 health officials added on May 5. Overall, San Francisco has averaged 42 new cases a day over the past week.
The number of confirmed cases here is the third-most in the Bay Area. Of those, 59% have been male, 63% have been between 18 and 60 years old; 60% of caught the virus through community contact (and 31% through a known case), and 44.8% have been from the Latin/Hispanic population. By comparison, white people have accounted for 15.4% of the cases and those of Asian descent 13%.
In hospitals, 56 patients had COVID-19 and another 44 were suspected to have it. Those patients were using up 31 ICU beds. Every ICU bed and emergency room bed available for surges in the virus are available.
The county has performed 50,533 tests, 6% of which have come back positive.
San Mateo County: Big one-day spike in confirmed cases
The 45 new cases here were the most reported from one day to the next since April 15. The county has recorded higher numbers on a handful of Monday’s but those totals reflect two days worth of reporting, because the county hasn’t updated its statistics on Sunday’s.
Of the 1,783 confirmed cases, 53% have been female, 36% have been between the ages of 30 and 49, and another 28% have been between 50 and 69. The Hispanic/Latino population comprises 40% of the cases, and one in every four patients (500) has been in the city of San Mateo. Daly City (325 cases), Redwood City (228) and South San Francisco (184) are the only other cities where more than 100 cases have been diagnosed.
The death was the first one recorded since a pandemic-high nine were added Monday. Twenty-six of the 76 victims (34%) have been counted in May, and overall 40 have been female, 51 have been at least 80 years old and only six have been under 50. Forty-nine of the victims have been white.
Hospitals reported through May 20 that there were 74 COVID-19 patients hospitalized and 17 were in the ICU.
The county has conducted 24,660 tests, and 7.2% of those have come back positive.
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