Part of COVID-19 Data and Reports
COVID-19 Hospitalizations
COVID-related
hospitalizations are an important measure of the spread and severity of
COVID-19 in our community. The charts below show the number of patients in San
Francisco hospitals who either have confirmed cases of COVID-19 or are awaiting
test results. Those awaiting results are labeled as “Suspected COVID-19” until a
positive or negative result is confirmed through laboratory testing. Patients
who are suspected of having COVID-19 meet the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention guidelines
based on their symptoms and other available information when they are admitted.
Over
the course of the pandemic, San Francisco has provided mutual aid to other counties
by providing hospital care for COVID-19 patients transferred here from areas
that have more limited hospital resources. San Francisco is able to meet this
need for mutual aid because of how our City, our healthcare system, and our
residents have responded to the COVID-19 crisis. In the charts below, patients that
have been transferred to a hospital in San Francisco are shown in yellow.
Note:
Mutual aid transfers will not be included in certain key public health indicators
for safe and gradual re-opening; specifically, they will not be counted
when measuring the number of new cases per day or the rate of change in hospitalizations
since they do not reflect the actual transmission of COVID-19 in San Francisco.
However, mutual aid transfers will be included in measures of hospital
capacity.
Source data: COVID-19 Hospitalizations