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I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether shopping for groceries in person is a good way to get the best produce or the kind of eventual-lung-problems risk that I'd be embarrassed to discuss with my doctor in a few years. Lately SF's COVID-in-wastewater numbers have been sneaking up. You'll recall that I track three statistics; when their combo gets high, I switch to getting my groceries delivered and such. Just one number's a little high; so I'll keep picking out peppers in person, but with a perhaps less-carefree mien.

graph charting three numbers over the past two months. The purple line, test positivity%, was high a couple of months ago, but is now pretty low. The red line, new cases, was low a couple of months ago, and is now even lower, yay. The green line has jiggled and wiggled high and low over the last couple of months; lately, it's been high-ish

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I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether ducking into a little shop to get out of the rain is sensibly staying dry or likely to be an embarrassing thing to bring up with my doctor when discussing the risk trade-offs that led to my hypothetical long-term lung problems. Lately, all three numbers that I track have been looking good! The last time I posted, two of the numbers looked good, but the wastewater-number still looked high. But it's come down since then, whew!

graph charting three numbers over the last couple of months in San Francisco: # of positive (sick) PCR tests, % of positive PCR tests, and COVID in wastewater. Lately, all three numbers have been low, yay

Guess I'll try to stay dry.

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I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether brunching at a neighborhood crêperie is a fine way to occasionally take a break from my own cooking or a foolish boost to future dementia risk. Lately, some good news and some bad news. As you may remember (depending on whether you read my posts and/or your current dementia state), I track three SF COVID numbers. Lately, the PCR test positivity % has been low. That's good! Also lately, the COVID-in-wastewater numbers have been high. That's bad!

There's an old joke from the age of mechanical timepieces: Someone with a watch always knows what time it is. Someone with two watches is never quite sure. To figure out whether I'm willing to swap inside air with my fellow San Franciscans, I let the dashboard multiply together the numbers I track and look at the overall product. Overall, I'm still happy to go places (he wrote, licking omelet juice from his lips). There were a few days about a month and a half ago in which I avoided going indoors…but as more data came in, I looked back and thought that I prrrrobably would have been willing to go out those days, too.

graph tracking three numbers over the past 60 days. The purple line, PCR test positivity% was high, peaking about a month and a half back; but lately, it's been low. The green line is noisier; you can sorta tell something bad was happening a month and a half back. Lately, it's been kinda hign (but not very). The third line, number of reported tests, has been consistently low, though you might note that a month and a half back, it was about 2x the current level

Some good news for data nerds: The Cal-SuWers dashboard, where I get SF COVID-in-wastewater data, now also has data (and graphs and such) for flu and RSV. They used to mostly post new data weekly (confusingly, with some data coming in at other times), but now post data every weekday. According to them, overall California COVID levels are falling and are now "low". (For the past few weeks, they were plateau-ed at "high".) They also say that SF Bay Area levels are low, though they used to be high. Here's hoping that SF's recent bump is just an aberration and we'll catch up with the rest of the Bay Area soon.

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