San Francisco officials today unveiled a new way to track COVID-19 across the county.
The San Francisco COVID-19 Data Tracker website now has a new map, which shows where the highest infection rates have been, according to zip code.
So far the areas with the highest number of cases include the South of Market Street (SOMA) neighborhood and Bayview/Hunter’s Point.
"This virus has woven an exceptionally cruel path through our city’s most vulnerable," said Sheryl Evans Davis, executive director of the city's Human Rights Commission. But the city's director of public health, Dr. Grant Colfax, said the hotspots on the map tend to track predictable risk factors such as crowded conditions or neighborhoods where residents tend to have "insufficient support."
He hastened to point out that despite the varied rates of infection shown on the map, "no zip code or neighborhood is inherently safer than another." As an example, Colfax pointed to the 94107 zip code, which shows a high infection rate largely because of one homeless shelter where a large outbreak occurred.
To see COVID-19 cases by county, check out KQED's California COVID-19 tracker.
Police chief William Scott said while San Franciscans have been "largely compliant" with the public health order to shelter at home, police have issued 16 citations to repeat-offenders, as well as 67 "formal admonitions," meaning warnings in which a incident reports were filed.
