Pedestrians wear masks as they walk along Haight Street in San Francisco in October. San Francisco County ranked 45th among the state's 58 counties in per-capita cases over the past two weeks. Since late October, new daily infections have risen by 150% in San Francisco (the city and county are one and the same). And a greater proportion of the population is abiding by the recommendations," said Dr. George Rutherford, epidemiologist and infectious diseases expert at UC San Francisco. But the county decided to keep the venue, where the San Francisco 49ers play, closed to fans for the foreseeable future.
