66 new cases in the three days Friday to Sunday. That's a 10% increase in the total cases in the three-plus month history of the pandemic in Marin County. Ouch. What's going on?
The answer seems to revolve around a hotspot in the Canal district in San Rafael (which city has seen 72 more cases, on a base of 265 in the past ~10 days) and perhaps another in Novato (32 on a base of 113). There's a hotspot also in San Quentin prison, but numbers there aren't counted in the county totals.
That's being met with accelerated testing in San Rafael / Canal and in Novato - and with more contact tracing (at least 38 people hired for that, with an emphasis on bilingual / bicultural skills).
Neither Sausalito proper nor Mill Valley have had new cases in the past ~10 days.
9 now in Marin hospitals (reached 10 on Saturday); no deaths.
Sources for today; Marin HHS website and data presentation of Dr. Willis, head of Marin HHS last week to county supervisors.
