“I think it was natural that the Bay Area health officers tried to be coordinated,” said San Mateo Chief of Health Louise Rogers, “what was miraculous is that they actually succeeded.”
While telling San Mateo supervisors she was not privy to conversations among the health officers, she says counties have their unique circumstances.
“I think it may become more challenging for the seven public municipalities to completely hang together as well,” said Rogers.
She pointed to Santa Cruz, Napa, and Sonoma counties with very few deaths. In San Mateo County, 58% of the deaths have occured in nursing facilities. The counties are all looking at measures - cases, deaths, testing, hospital capacity, contact tracing - and performing differently on those measures.