COVID-19 Outbreak Hits SF Fire Department, With 60 December Cases: Report

A COVID-19 outbreak has deed the San Francisco Fire Department, with up to 60 cases this month, including 40 progressive cases, according to a study from the San Francisco Chronicle, citing section officials.

The spike is impacting staffing, but for now, it's not impacting operations, a section spokesperson told the newspaper.

About 98% of the department's astir 1,800 workers are afloat vaccinated.

Firefighters are taxable to the city’s vaccine mandate, which arsenic of Wednesday includes a booster mandate that applies to each radical who enactment successful high-risk jobs.

Fire Department employees who trial affirmative are removed from enactment and required to quarantine, section spokesperson Lt. Jonathan Baxter told the Chronicle. San Francisco wellness officials person decided to instrumentality with existing quarantine guidance — a 10-day isolation play for asymptomatic cases — alternatively than travel the caller five-day proposal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.