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I have such great faith in the track and trace capabilities of Santa Clara County public health officials.

BTW, are any of them SCC residents - or was this just a factoid that someone else compiled that SCC glommed onto?

SCC reports "As part of its investigation of this outbreak, the County learned that players from affected teams had traveled from Santa Clara County to participate in a youth basketball tournament in Placer County on November 7 and 8, 2020. Thirty-three of 37 players and all three coaches from the Santa Clara County based teams tested positive for COVID-19."
SCC has cited the private basketball program. Calif. Dept. of Public Health is investigating the tournament operators.

I expect the county will not reveal anything more about the individuals.  Further details will have to come from the individuals.

Based on the date of the tournament, the associated 77 SCC cases would have started showing up about November 15, when the daily average was about 327 new cases.

I apologize for previously pointing to the news article rather than chasing down the press release.
The Merc's article pointed to an August article about the tournaments. 

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Some hope:  On Dec. 12, SCC reported 821 cases.  One week earlier, SCC reported 895 cases.
A small downturn, and maybe just in the noise, but hope that R has dropped to close to 1.

SCC indicates that about one out of 10 cases need hospitalization and more than 1/3 of those go into the ICU.

Over the last 5 days reported (Dec 7 - 11), in SCC, the number of ICU patients with COVID has been between 90 and 94.  I have to believe they must be changing the criteria for which patients to admit to the ICU.  The number of non-ICU COVID patients has risen from 285 to 345.

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I have such great faith in the track and trace capabilities of Santa Clara County public health officials.

BTW, are any of them SCC residents - or was this just a factoid that someone else compiled that SCC glommed onto?

SCC reports "As part of its investigation of this outbreak, the County learned that players from affected teams had traveled from Santa Clara County to participate in a youth basketball tournament in Placer County on November 7 and 8, 2020. Thirty-three of 37 players and all three coaches from the Santa Clara County based teams tested positive for COVID-19."
SCC has cited the private basketball program. Calif. Dept. of Public Health is investigating the tournament operators.

I expect the county will not reveal anything more about the individuals.  Further details will have to come from the individuals.

Based on the date of the tournament, the associated 77 SCC cases would have started showing up about November 15, when the daily average was about 327 new cases.

I apologize for previously pointing to the news article rather than chasing down the press release.
The Merc's article pointed to an August article about the tournaments. 

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Some hope:  On Dec. 12, SCC reported 821 cases.  One week earlier, SCC reported 895 cases.
A small downturn, and maybe just in the noise, but hope that R has dropped to close to 1.

SCC indicates that about one out of 10 cases need hospitalization and more than 1/3 of those go into the ICU.

Over the last 5 days reported (Dec 7 - 11), in SCC, the number of ICU patients with COVID has been between 90 and 94.  I have to believe they must be changing the criteria for which patients to admit to the ICU.  The number of non-ICU COVID patients has risen from 285 to 345.