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San Francisco health officials report steady COVID-19 metrics and lay out phased plan to transition pandemic response back into city departments
Summary
DPH told the Health Commission that cases have plateaued, vaccination coverage is rising but supply is constrained, and staff outlined a phased, milestone-driven plan to move COVID response functions from an incident-command structure back into departmental operations.
Director Brent Colfax and DPH transition staff briefed the San Francisco Health Commission on April 20, saying the city—s COVID-19 case curve has stabilized and that the department is preparing a phased transition of pandemic response work back to regular city departments.
Colfax said San Francisco has recorded 35,816 diagnosed COVID-19 cases to date and described a long, steady decline in hospitalizations; he said that, as of the briefing, there were three COVID-positive inpatients at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He reported that 64% of eligible residents had received at least one vaccine dose and that 42% were fully vaccinated, while local daily administration averaged about 10,400 doses. "We now have the capacity to do over 20,000…
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