[Snorlax94]

It sure looks like L.A. County, and to a lesser extent Santa Clara County, have experienced an increase in percentage of positive tests.  I have no particular clue as to whether it is an increase in illness, or a result of a change in who can get a test.  AFAIK, no one has indicated how, say, the tests for patients already sick are handled. (Typically, 2 negative tests are required as part of the decision that you are no longer sick.)   One could see this increase as just a return to "normal" after a negative bump when testing was opened, caused by an influx of tests of curious but not sick people.

The one-week average positive percentage for SCC had gotten as low as 1.1% but has bumped up to 1.3% (5 days before current date).  L.A. County had gotten down to 4.5% but is now around 6%.

MT, I share your concern about the SCC data.

The optimistic scenario is that this is due to the increase in testing in East San Jose. As you've probably seen, East San Jose has the densest concentration of cases in SCC, and they just opened two new major testing facilities there to help address the needs in those communities, so you'd expect there were a ton of untested cases there, and hopefully now we are catching more of those.

BTW,
1) Do people know why there is such a high concentration of cases around Page Mill Road in Palo Alto? Granted, the population is very small, but still, it's significant. I was wondering if it was the VA Hospital.

2) MT, what data set(s) are you using? For example, the SCC Dashboard shows a recent substantial increase in Covid hospitalizations and cases, but the state hospital dashboard shows a nice downward trend in recent Santa Clara hospitalizations.
https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/califor...anta+Clara
The state dataset shows COvid hospitalziations dropping from 51 to 37 in the last week, and ICU cases dropping from 22 to 18 (and the suspected cases dropping as well).

[Snorlax94]

It sure looks like L.A. County, and to a lesser extent Santa Clara County, have experienced an increase in percentage of positive tests.  I have no particular clue as to whether it is an increase in illness, or a result of a change in who can get a test.  AFAIK, no one has indicated how, say, the tests for patients already sick are handled. (Typically, 2 negative tests are required as part of the decision that you are no longer sick.)   One could see this increase as just a return to "normal" after a negative bump when testing was opened, caused by an influx of tests of curious but not sick people.

The one-week average positive percentage for SCC had gotten as low as 1.1% but has bumped up to 1.3% (5 days before current date).  L.A. County had gotten down to 4.5% but is now around 6%.

MT, I share your concern about the SCC data.

The optimistic scenario is that this is due to the increase in testing in East San Jose. As you've probably seen, East San Jose has the densest concentration of cases in SCC, and they just opened two new major testing facilities there to help address the needs in those communities, so you'd expect there were a ton of untested cases there, and hopefully now we are catching more of those.

BTW,
1) Do people know why there is such a high concentration of cases around Page Mill Road in Palo Alto? Granted, the population is very small, but still, it's significant. I was wondering if it was the VA Hospital.

2) MT, what data set(s) are you using? For example, the SCC Dashboard shows a recent substantial increase in Covid hospitalizations and cases, but the state hospital dashboard shows a nice downward trend in recent Santa Clara hospitalizations.
https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/califor...anta+Clara
The state dataset shows COvid hospitalziations dropping from 51 to 37 in the last week, and ICU cases dropping from 22 to 18 (and the suspected cases dropping as well).