This is clearly an outlier, probably owing to the fact that many covid cases from "inside" the city end up dying in hospitals in the surrounding region (SF itself is only about 12% of the population of the bay area).
Nationwide, overdose fatalities are absolutely on an upswing and worth worrying about. Nonetheless a quick google pulls up this coverage of some CDC data:
Nationwide, overdose fatalities are absolutely on an upswing and worth worrying about. Nonetheless a quick google pulls up this coverage of some CDC data:
https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/27...
... that shows national fatalities of 75k in a 1 year period. That's about one fifth of the covid death rate of ~400k/year