Posted on 06/12/2024 4:13:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
California’s COVID numbers are on the rise thanks, in part, to new subvariants, suggesting an earlier-than-normal start to the summer season.
The percentage of COVID tests coming back with positive results in the state rose to 5.3% for the week that ended June 3, up from 2.2% the month before.
The numbers are still relatively low — last summer’s peak positive test rate was 13.1% — but the increases have the attention of doctors and health officials as the summer travel season begins.
“Numbers are definitely going up,” said Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, regional chief of infectious disease at Kaiser Permanente Southern California. Among Kaiser’s 4.8 million Southern California members, the increase in COVID is mostly among non-hospitalized people.
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported an average of 106 COVID cases for the week ending June 2. That’s up from 67 cases a day for the week that ended May 12.
“We have seen this happen over the last 4 1/2 years. We know we tend to see another wave around this time,” Hudson said. This one “started a little bit earlier, so it may crest a little earlier, and oftentimes we don’t see those hospitalized cases until a little further in.”
COVID levels also are rising in wastewater. In Los Angeles County, sewage levels were at 16% of the winter peak for the week that ended May 25, up from 8% for the week that ended May 4. In Santa Clara County — the Bay Area’s most populous county — COVID levels in wastewater are considered high from San Jose to Palo Alto. There also is a notable rise in samples in San Francisco’s sewage.
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If you don't you are ENDANGERING LIVES!
Crossing border folks sharing it.
And don’t forget safe and effective!!!!
Phase 2. Shut it down.
well damn! Id better rush out and get my first COVID vaccine! That’ll keep my safe!
Just in time: COVDv.2024
C ommunist
O rignated
V ote
I ntegrity
D estroyer.
Bodies are piling up in the street.
I’m guessing there might be an election coming up. Am I right?
Bingo!
How would you know that you’ve caught covid unless you’re elderly? Now that it is the common cold?
I’m so afraid. /s
Time for Nancy to don some cultural appropriation attire and dance around in Chinatown.
Okay, why does anyone care?
Unless hospitalizations are on the rise it is of no consequence.
The only people that should be tested at this time are those who are hospitalized.
Anyone not hospitalized or died should not be tested. It is a waste of money and time. Such testing only serves Big Pharma in their push to inject people with their gene therapy, murder fluid.
Isn’t it though.
I'll never forget those FReepers who screamed such things 4 years ago. (YOU know who you are (and so do I....)
Yah, I’ll never forget the daily death toll Freeper.
The only known cure is mail-in ballots and unattended drop boxes.
Election variant.
The Election variant is early this year.
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