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Health Commission hears COVID-19 update as city scales mass and neighborhood vaccination sites
Summary
Director Grant Colfax told the San Francisco Health Commission that hospitalizations and the virus's reproductive rate have declined and that the city has opened a City College mass vaccination site plus a neighborhood site in the Mission; commissioners pressed staff on how older and non‑tech‑savvy residents will access limited appointment supplies.
Director Grant Colfax delivered the Department of Public Health's COVID-19 update to the San Francisco Health Commission, reporting falling hospitalizations and a reproductive rate below 1 even as case rates remain elevated.
Colfax said the city has recorded 31,377 COVID-19 cases and 324 deaths to date and noted that hospitalizations had come down to about 172 patients after the winter surge. He told commissioners the reproductive rate is roughly 0.75 and that ICU and hospital capacity remain robust compared with other parts of the state and region.
On vaccination, Colfax described a…
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