News of new clusters of COVID-19 cases at senior care facilities throughout the Bay Area continues to roll in, and as of Wednesday, the unsettling tallies of cases among both staff members and elderly residents is swiftly rising.

For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began in the Bay Area, San Francisco's Department of Public Health has released some demographic information about the 622 cases in the city to date.

As the Bay Area appears to be successfully "flattening the curve," a Marin County-based epidemiologist is saying that we should not just be focused on mitigation efforts — which could go on for an extended period — but we can return to active containment strategies.