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Some patients have been admitted for other conditions and just happen to also test positive for the coronavirus, but Wachter said the spike is still a sign that the pandemic could worsen in the coming weeks even in places with high vaccination rates, like San Francisco.
Wachter also noted that more than 8% of people without symptoms screened for the coronavirus at UCSF hospitals are receiving a positive test result implying that one-in-twelve people in San Francisco who have no symptoms are still carrying the virus.
With that prevalence, you have to assume that everybody you come in contact with might have covid, he tweeted.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/amp/S-F-facing-undeniable-hospital-surge-as-16741121.php
Not necessarily a bad sign that potentially 8% of the population there has asymptomatic COVID (most likely Omicron by now) at any given moment, that could mean it will burn through and fizzle quickly. That could explain why South Africa says their surge ended relatively quickly as well.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)And that's why I continue to mask and distance. After almost two years of it now it just
comes naturally to me. I know I'm not the only one.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)I recall seeing info, here on DU, claiming that you could get reinfected by omicron. If that is so, it will recirculate endlessly given our social ability to do anything about it.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)Because the body has prior experience fighting it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)from 78 to 196. We reportedly still had a couple of ICU beds open, but a nearby system had 0.
Our GA county is still only 45% fully vaccinated. Not the worst by any means; some are in the 20%s.
Shermann
(7,413 posts)If you do the math, that positivity rate over a one-year period gives you an 88% chance of infection (assuming a 2-week infectious period).