. >> drummer alex aspinall is remembering his friend donna d'acuti. the county says she was over 75. aspinall says the grandmother was full of life. >> she's an interesting person with wide experience. she was an emergency room nurse in san francisco for many years. she was a realtor in marin. she was also an incredible artist. >> tributes with pouring in on her band donna d plus three's facebook page. d'acuti tested positive after playing a gig on july 16th. he said everyone in the band was vaccinated. >> i heard the week after the gig that there were some people there that night who had said just in passing, oh, i think i have a cold. >> the same day bay area county issued an indoor mask advisory as the delta variant was beginning to spread. >> what seems like a cold we know now could be delta. >> ucsf infectious disease doctor peter chin hong says when d'acuti got infected vaccinated people felt safe inside. now new safety precautions are in place. >> ensuring that everybody is vaccinated, ensuring that people wear masks when they're not eating or

>> our aspinall capacity like most major cities in texas is stretched beyond its limits.ready issued a call which we've been asking him to do for weeks for outside help, for nursing, our capacity is past its limits. the surge of the delta variant is not slowing down. that is our concern. our hospital capacity has been breached and there is no abating it if we don't mitigate. we have work to do, including getting folks back in masks. now that we have that authority we're gonna do that. we also have to ensure that folks who can get vaccinated are being vaccinated. that work needs to continue. we exceeded the biden administration's goal quite a while ago, but back in june san antonio had one of the lowest positivity rate for several weeks, months in facts, less than 3%. it has gone up almost 20 fold, rachel, in the last 6 to 8 weeks. the case numbers are just out of control. let's not four that the hospital workers, the medical workers the nurses, the doctors they're putting themselves in harm's way which they have done, triple time, for the last, 18 months and they are gett