By Eduardo Medina
July 31, 2021
At least 233 staff members at two major San Francisco hospitals, most of them fully vaccinated, tested positive for the coronavirus this month, and most, according to a hospital official, involved the highly contagious Delta variant.

旧金山两家主要医院的至少233名工作人员本月检测出冠状病毒呈阳性,其中大多数人都接种了全面疫苗,据一名医院管理人员称,其中大多数人感染了高传染性的德尔塔病毒变种。

Some of the cases were asymptomatic, most involved mild to moderate symptoms and only two required hospitalization, officials said. The infections were determined to be Delta-related because most samples in San Francisco were tested for the variant, which is now dominant in the city.

官员表示,部分病例无症状,多数为轻至中度症状,只有2例需要住院治疗。这些感染被确定为与德尔塔有关,因为旧金山的大多数样本都检测了这种变体,这种变体现在在该市占多数。

About 75 to 80 percent of the more than 50 staff members infected at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital were fully vaccinated, Dr. Lukejohn Day, the hospital’s chief medical officer, said in an interview on Saturday. The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center said in a statement issued on Friday that 153 of its 183 infected staff members had been fully vaccinated.

扎克伯格旧金山总医院(Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital)的首席医疗官卢克·戴(Lukejohn Day)周六接受采访时表示,在被感染的50多名员工中,约75%至80%的人已经接种了疫苗。加州大学旧金山医学中心(University of California, San Francisco Medical Center)在周五发表的一份声明中表示,在183名受感染的工作人员中,有153人已经全面接种了疫苗。

The statement from the U.C.S.F. Medical Center said that two of the infected staff members required hospitalization. None of the infected staff members at San Francisco General have been hospitalized and most had mild to moderate symptoms, Dr. Day said. The asymptomatic cases were discovered through contact tracing.

加州大学旧金山分校医疗中心的声明说,两名受感染的工作人员需要住院治疗。戴博士说,旧金山综合医院受感染的工作人员都没有住院治疗,大多数人都有轻微至中度症状。无症状感染者是通过接触者追踪发现的。

Without vaccinations, Dr. Day said, the hospitalization rate would be much worse.

戴博士说,如果不接种疫苗,住院率会更糟。

“We’re concerned right now that we’re on the rise of a surge here in San Francisco and the Bay Area,” Dr. Day said. “But what we’re seeing is very much what the data from the vaccines showed us: You can still get Covid, potentially. But if you do get it, it’s not severe at all.”

“我们现在担心的是,旧金山和旧金山湾区的疫情正在加剧,”戴博士说。“但我们看到的情况与疫苗数据显示的情况非常相似: 你仍然有可能感染新冠病毒。但如果你真的感染了,也并不严重。”

On July 11, San Francisco ordered that workers in high-risk workplaces, including hospitals, be vaccinated by Sept. 15. The U.C.S.F. statement said that the hospital was “doubling down on our efforts to protect our staff. This includes requiring all employees and trainees to comply with the new UC-systemwide Covid-19 vaccination mandate, with limited exceptions for medical or religious exemptions.”

7月11日,旧金山要求包括医院在内的高危工作场所的工人在9月15日之前接种疫苗。加州重症监护室的声明称,医院正在“加倍努力保护我们的员工。这包括要求所有员工和学员遵守新的加州大学全系统Covid-19疫苗接种规定,医疗或宗教豁免除外。”

Staff members at both hospitals have continued to wear personal protective equipment, Dr. Day said. But the number of staff infections reported in July is about as many as during the peak of the winter surge.

戴博士说,两家医院的工作人员都继续佩戴个人防护装备。但7月份报告的员工感染人数与冬季疫情高峰时期差不多。

“We’re nervous that we could potentially exceed it,” Dr. Day said.

我们很紧张,戴博士说,我们(感染人数)可能会超过它。