California - San Francisco
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SF finally shares crucial data on coronavirus hospitalizations, demographics
1. It provides no information for the nine people who have died of COVID-19. And for more than a third of all those who have tested positive, the race and ethnicity are not known. Overall, 21% were white, 18% Hispanic, 13% Asian or Pacific Islander, and 4% black.
2. Statewide, about half of people who test positive are under age 50; in San Francisco, 61% are 50 or younger.
3. San Francisco reported 39 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The city’s case count has been climbing about 3% to 10% daily over the past week, which is a much slower pace than two or three weeks ago.
4. As of Monday, 269 health care workers had tested positive statewide.
5. The number of people hospitalized and in intensive care in San Francisco has been climbing steadily. There were 58 people hospitalized on March 28 and 83 a week later, on April 4, the most recent date on the the San Francisco dashboard. Of those 83 patients, 37 were in intensive care.