07-14-2020, 08:52 PM
While San Mateo County hasn't moved at all to provide contact tracing data, they have added an interesting statistic to their Hospital occupancy statistics. At present, in San Mateo County there are 53 confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized. They have added the following statistic. 24 of those patients are "out of county" patients. Exactly how one defines that is unknown, but I presume it is people brought into the County from somewhere else under State auspices. It is 45% of the cases in hospital. They don't say how many, if any, of them are in ICU.
Since they haven't added this same number to the confirmed cases entries included with testing, it is unclear if those cases are counted there. In San Mateo County, 24 cases is a small enough number it could be ignored. I would assume no cases are brought into another county unless they require hospitalization, but I guess even that is unclear.
Since they haven't added this same number to the confirmed cases entries included with testing, it is unclear if those cases are counted there. In San Mateo County, 24 cases is a small enough number it could be ignored. I would assume no cases are brought into another county unless they require hospitalization, but I guess even that is unclear.