Two big reasons S.F. has the lowest (COVID) death rate among major U.S. cities

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Credit where credit is due, this apparently is only for the 10 largest US cities but still very good.

Two big reasons S.F. has the lowest death rate among major U.S. cities​

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Local experts say San Francisco’s low death rates are likely because the city started sheltering in place earlier than most other major cities, which helped maintain a relatively low case count overall. And San Francisco hospitals never came close to being overwhelmed the way hospitals in other cities did, which led to patients here getting more individualized care in the ICU.

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“San Franciscans have done their part with masking up, social distancing and getting tested,” Mayor London Breed said during the UCSF discussion.

Though a process known as contact tracing, the public health department is reaching 79% of people who tested positive, and reaching 84% of people they have been in contact with, Breed said.

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I have heard about that “contact tracing”, other methods involved using cell phones.

Another thing I read this morning is that total deaths of all things, are actually lower in 2020 than the preceding 2 years. CDC figures.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/datab...d life expectancy at birth increased 0.1 year.

Total annual deaths in US?
2018: 2,839,205
2019: 2,855,000
2020: 2,033,736 through Sep 24th.

2020’s overall death rate is on pace to be LESS than 2018 and 2019.