SF Mayor London Breed and Dr. Grant Colfax say COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are still high, but the good news is numbers have plateaued.
The highly-infectious omicron variant could hasten the pandemic to end after the surge, according to several experts ABC7 News talked to.
Dr. Colfax says the goal isn't to prevent every COVID case. He says omicron has proved that it's simply not possible."Our goal is to prevent the worst outcomes, severe disease, hospitalizations and death. And with regard to that, I just want to ground ourselves in comparison to last year. Last year, we lost 165 San Franciscans to COVID in January of 2021. This month to date, we have lost five. Now we don't know what COVID has in store for us.
Mayor Breed also threw her support for restaurants and other small businesses which have felt the impact of the omicron variant since the holidays.
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