I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether I'm okay drinking coffee inside a cafe with friends or should insist we take it outside. Some good news: lately, SF's COVID-in-wastewater level has gone (and stayed) below the "pretty-safe" line. That means that of the three numbers I track, two of them look pretty-safe; the third, as I blogged a few days ago, looks maybe-scary-or-maybe-inaccurate.
Things in SF seem not-bad-could-be-better right now, COVID-wise. It was kind of unnerving to read that article a few days back saying that COVID levels in the SF Bay metropolitan area are high. When I look at the Cal Suwers dashboard, I wonder if that article was based on data from a couple of weeks back and maybe it took a while to get published? (The article was based on data from WastewaterSCAN, which I think is a subset of the data that shows up in Cal Suwers, which might also explain some difference?) Anyhow, I'm going to go hang out in a cafe. Here's hoping I don't catch that "razor blade throat" COVID variant, its nickname sounds unpleasant (though I guess I shouldn't overfocus on the nickname vs the risk of long-term heart, lung, and brain problems).
