Posted on 09/03/2025 10:10:37 AM PDT by DFG
A COVID wave is washing over California, with the state seeing continued increases in the number of newly confirmed cases and hospitalizations as some officials urged the public to take greater precautions.
The extent of the recent increases has prompted some county-level health officials to recommend that residents once again consider wearing masks in indoor public settings, at least until transmission has declined.
California currently has "high" coronavirus levels in sewage, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And increases are being seen across the Golden State, from Los Angeles County to the San Francisco Bay Area to areas around the state capital.
The CDC estimates that coronavirus infections are either "growing" or "likely growing" in 30 states, including California. Twenty-one states have either “very high” or "high" viral levels in wastewater. Of all regions of the U.S., the West has the highest levels of coronavirus in wastewater, followed by the South
"California is experiencing a summer COVID wave," said Dr. Aimee Sisson, the health officer in Yolo County, just west of Sacramento.
The rate at which coronavirus lab tests are coming back positive also continues to climb. For the week that ended Aug. 23, 12.07% of tests across the state came back positive, up from a rate of 6.03% for the week that ended July 26.
Similar leaps in rates were seen in L.A. County, where the positive test rate was 13.44%, up from 8.11% four weeks earlier; in Orange County, it was 18.1%, up from 9.4%; and in San Francisco, it was 8.7%, up from 7.1%.
Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional chief of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said she received many calls related to outpatient cases of COVID-19 while on call over the Labor Day weekend.
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Just shut down you business* for just 2, er 4 weeks, yeah 4 weeks! Were all in this tougher!
*Only restaurants and small business will be closed, WalMart, Home Depot, etc. are safe from COVID and can stay open! Science!
Only restaurants that Guv. Nuisance doesn’t have parties in have to close.
Criminals will welcome ability to hide their faces and *mask* their intentions under legal pretense.
Just a thought; can we assume given the political leanings of California that per Capita Californian’s would be one of the most vaccinated states?
Other officials demand residents to mask up. If it hasn't happened yet, you can be sure that it will, and Trump will be blamed.
There are at least two people in our office building who wear a mask. One will now stay on an elevator unless she is by herself. Weirdest thing.
the pandemic is still with us and I am thoroughly disappointed that we are not all masking up
Somewhere there is a greasy California politician meeting a slugworth that owns a Shanghai facemask sewing company. There is currently 3 cargo ships of Taylor & Travis edition masks backed up for departure.
Zot!
Well, THERE went a big chunk of the rest of my life!
IBTZ
So far I’ve just looked at the first link. Unreal, lol. The clown doll in one of the pics must be the “John Wayne Gacy” edition…..😮
Yeah, especially in California. Newsome will resort to anything to keep the National Guard out.
‘Bring Out Your Dead’ Ping! ;)
Since we’re making such great progress on The Wall on our Southern Border, can’t we just wall off California from the rest of America, too?
We’ll re-locate Jim Rob & Crew first, of course! :)
How could that happen? 75% of Californians got both shots! 🤔🤔🤔
Never forget that Gov Newsome openly refused to allow the details of his BILLION dollar purchase of masks from China to be revealed, because it might compromise the deal. What would be his excuse for refusing to release the details of the purchase now, 5 years later? Does anyone think that he will be asked about it?
COVID isn’t a threat to normal people.
People can be quite creative!
“Breaking News?” No, the story is that LAT is pretending it’s a story. “Editorial” would be more like it. A standard COVID test number is not convincing by itself.
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