These Are The Counties In The San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA Metro Space The place COVID-19 Is Rising The Slowest
2022-02-07
After adding over 2,974,000 new cases throughout the last week, the US now has more than 74.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 880,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country.
New cases continue to rise, albeit at a slowing rate. In the past week, there were an average of 165.5 daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 Americans — a decrease from the week prior, when there were an average of 235.2 daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people.
While COVID-19 has spread to nearly every part of the country, cities continue to be the sites of major outbreaks. Experts agree that the virus is more likely to spread in group settings where large numbers of people routinely have close contact with one another, such as colleges, nursing homes, bars, and restaurants. Metropolitan areas with a high degree of connectivity between different neighborhoods and a large population may be particularly at-risk.
The San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA, metro area consists of Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco County, and two other counties. In the past week, there were an average of 200.2 new coronavirus cases every day per 100,000 San Francisco residents, greater than the national figure. The metro area’s average daily case growth in the most recent week is a decrease from the week prior, when there were an average of 256.4 daily new cases per 100,000 San Francisco residents.
The spread of coronavirus depends on a variety of factors and can vary even between neighboring counties. Within the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro area, COVID-19 is growing the slowest in Marin County. There were an average of 166.5 new cases per day per 100,000 residents in Marin County during the past week, the least of the five counties in San Francisco with available data.
Case growth in the San Francisco metro area is relatively uniform at the county level. In San Mateo County, for example, there were an average of 227.4 new cases per day per 100,000 residents in the past week — the most of any county in San Francisco yet relatively in line with the case growth rate in Marin County.
Just as Marin County has the slowest case growth in the San Francisco area, it also has the lowest incidence of cases overall. As of February 3, there were a total of 13,074.8 confirmed cases per 100,000 residents in Marin County, the fewest of the five counties in the metro area. For comparison, the US has so far reported 23,032.9 cases per 100,000 Americans nationwide.
