California's summer COVID wave shows signs of waning. What are the numbers in your community?
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There are some encouraging signs that California’s summer COVID wave might be leveling off.That’s not to say the seasonal spike is in the rearview mirror just yet, however.Coronavirus levels in California’s wastewater remain “very high,” according to the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as they are in much of the country.But while some COVID indicators are rising in the Golden State, others are starting to fall — a hint that the summer wave may soon start to decline.
Statewide, the rate at which coronavirus lab tests are coming back positive was 11.72% for the week that ended Sept.6, the highest so far this season, and up from 10.8% the prior week.
Still, viral levels in wastewater are significantly lower than during last summer’s peak.California The coronavirus has muscled its way back into headlines in recent weeks amid a summer wave of the illness and growing difficulties in getting the vaccine, as well as efforts by the Trump administration that could make getting inoculated harder for some people.
The latest COVID hospital admission rate was 3.9 hospitalizations for every 100,000 residents.That’s a slight decline from 4.14 the prior week.
Overall, COVID hospitalizations remain low statewide, particularly compared with earlier surges.The number of newly admitted COVID hospital patients has declined slightly in Los Angeles County and Santa Clara County, but ticked up slightly up in Orange County.
In San Francisco, some doctors believe the summer COVID wave is cresting.“There are a few more people in the hospitals, but I think it’s less than last summer,” said Dr.
Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert.“I feel like we are at a plateau.” Those who are being hospitalized tend to be older people who didn’t get immunized against COVID within the last year, Chin-Hong said, and some have a secondary infection...