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San Francisco health director: reproductive rate edges below 1 but city remains on state watch list
Summary
Director of Health Grant Colfax told the Health Commission that San Francisco's estimated COVID-19 reproductive rate had fallen to about 0.93 and testing capacity has risen toward a 5,000-tests-a-day goal, but the city remains on the state's watch list, pausing reopening.
Grant Colfax, director of health, gave the commission a data-heavy COVID-19 report on Aug. 18, saying San Francisco's estimated reproductive rate had fallen to about 0.93 and that the city's 7-day testing average has climbed to roughly 3,900 tests per day as DPH works toward a 5,000-tests-a-day target for September.
Colfax said the department has seen an influx of backlogged test reports from the state CalREDIE system and that most of those results were negative, a change that could lower reported positivity rates for some dates. "The state…
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