Our last Covid tracking post was six months ago as we approached the holidays and it tracked the holiday surge through last week here. Life may not have been simpler then, but it seemed clearer. You did all the things they told you to do, hoped for the best and could essentially see how it was going in the County to gauge your own personal risk. Those were the old days. Now tracking is blurrier. Home testing is private testing. Symptoms can be so light that you think it's allergies--ask me how I know. Past infections raise immunity for some period of time, but how long? My neighbor got it, got through it and Kaiser told him to get a booster right away. That seems over-protective while waiting a few months extends protection, but it's blurry. The County dashboard that I use for the Saturday updates occasionally splashes a screen saying the numbers from the state are missing without explaining why we need the state to report our own County data. Nonetheless, let's press on with tracking what we know and acknowledging what we don't know.
Here are the numbers for last week and they look terrible:
Total Cases: 134,492 - Up 6,902 in the County for the week -- up 385% over last week's increase.
Burlingame Cases: 4,249 - Up by 186 over last week, so 63% higher than last week which was almost double the prior week. 367 cases in the last 30 days.
Hospitalizations in the County: 40, up by 11 and double two weeks ago.
The Spring surge (is that the 5th or 6th, I forget) is definitely here. The County has a few new tidbits to advise here, but it sort of the same story.
I want the pox report. When will county start posting? I've heard there's a vax on the way.
Posted by: MBGA | May 22, 2022 at 03:29 AM
Thanks, MBGA, that's funny. Just came across the "wave count" for Covid--this is the fifth.
Posted by: Joe | May 23, 2022 at 12:38 PM
Anecdotally the surge continues and some of the people are getting pretty ill even having had a booster, etc. The B'game number jumped much more than the County rate which slowed down:
Total Cases: 134,492 - Up 2,969 in the County for the week -- down about 60% from last week's jump.
Burlingame Cases: 4,535 - Up by 286 over last week, so 54% higher than last week. 388 cases in the last 30 days so some of the increase might have been catching up from earlier.
Hospitalizations in the County: 41--about the same.
Posted by: Joe | May 28, 2022 at 02:11 PM
Today's Comicle headline asserts that we have seen the most recent peak and are in slight decline. That's not born out by the SM County numbers. Alameda County brought back the indoor mask mandate as well. Here's how the week went:
Total Cases: 140,702 - Up 6,210 in the County for the week -- double last week's increase.
Burlingame Cases: 4,535 - Up by 108 over last week, so less than half of last week's increase. 436 cases in the last 30 days.
Hospitalizations in the County: 31--down 25%.
Posted by: Joe | June 04, 2022 at 01:24 PM
Moderna's announcement of a new vax for Omicron was accompanied by talk of new variants popped up this week with BA.4 and BA.5. BA.5 is now 7.6% of cases nationally. Locally our week looked like this:
Total Cases: 143,453 - Up 2,751 in the County for the week -- less than half of last week's increase.
Burlingame Cases: 4,746 - Up by 211 over last week, so almost double last week's increase. 437 cases in the last 30 days--flat which is odd given the increase.
Hospitalizations in the County: 38 - about the same
Posted by: Joe | June 11, 2022 at 02:50 PM
Even with more summer socializing, the numbers show a pretty quiet week Covid-wise:
Total Cases: 146,098 - Up 2,645 in the County for the week -- flat week over week.
Burlingame Cases: 4,746 - Up by 70 over last week, so a notable slow down. 401 cases in the last 30 days--as things taper down.
Hospitalizations in the County: 43 - about the same
Posted by: Joe | June 19, 2022 at 12:18 PM
It was another pretty average week in the County according to the official numbers. I heard of several breakthrough-boosted cases among friends and acquaintances. Also keep hearing the Moderna booster will kick yer butt:
Total Cases: 148,771 - Up 2,673 in the County for the week -- flat week over week again.
Burlingame Cases: 4,746 - Up by 164 over last week, so more than double. 396 cases in the last 30 days--flat week over week as a higher week this week replaces a higher week a month ago.
Hospitalizations in the County: 28 - down 15
Posted by: Joe | June 25, 2022 at 01:14 PM
As I said in the original post from May, things are blurry out there Covid-wise. You can read all about the BA.4 and BA.5 and how there is a surge. You can read about the government telling Pfizer they should update their vax--like Pfizer did know that and hasn't been working on it for weeks or months....but here we see about the same numbers as the last few weeks:
Total Cases: 151,848 - Up 3,077 in the County for the week -- up about 15%.
Burlingame Cases: the county website is having a "data source error"
Hospitalizations in the County: 39 - up 11
Posted by: Joe | July 02, 2022 at 04:31 PM