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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.

At first I wondered if it was an accounting of San Mateo County residents going to Stanford Hospital.  Apparently that's not accounted for (yet).
I realized that people who had Kaiser coverage in SF would go to Daly City, and those in Palo Alto would go to Redwood City.

Note that SMC is showing the primary bed count as confirmed + suspected, while SCC is showing primary bed count as confirmed (but also shows the suspected bed count).

I still bet that there are a number of San Mateo County residents being treated at Stanford.

The state monitoring of beds makes sense when watching out for capacity issues.  But when the state uses hospitalization as a gauge of the health of the county, this statistic is muddy because of people going for care at a hospital in another county.

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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.

At first I wondered if it was an accounting of San Mateo County residents going to Stanford Hospital.  Apparently that's not accounted for (yet).
I realized that people who had Kaiser coverage in SF would go to Daly City, and those in Palo Alto would go to Redwood City.

Note that SMC is showing the primary bed count as confirmed + suspected, while SCC is showing primary bed count as confirmed (but also shows the suspected bed count).

I still bet that there are a number of San Mateo County residents being treated at Stanford.

The state monitoring of beds makes sense when watching out for capacity issues.  But when the state uses hospitalization as a gauge of the health of the county, this statistic is muddy because of people going for care at a hospital in another county.