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In the San Francisco Bay Area, coronavirus levels in the largest sewershed in Santa Clara County have reached their highest point since last winter’s peak, at 72%, according to the local public health department.Īt UC San Francisco’s hospitals, coronavirus-positive hospitalizations have been increasing and remain high, but are lower than this time last year, Chin-Hong said. County were positive for the week that ended Dec. About 11% of specimens tested at sentinel surveillance labs in L.A.

The rate at which coronavirus tests are coming back positive also continues to rise. The Sacramento area and the Eastern Sierra are at the “medium” level of coronavirus-positive hospital admissions, according to the CDC, while the rest of California’s counties are in the “low” level. due to a historic number of admitted patients and people accessing the emergency department with non-urgent medical problems.” Fresno County’s Department of Public Health says its hospitals are seeing a sharp rise in respiratory illnesses and reporting “severely impacted conditions. that’s increasing, for sure.”Īnd some parts of California are being hit harder than others. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious-disease expert. “We have all these respiratory viruses afoot, with RSV that hasn’t really started to go down,” said Dr. And with COVID-19 and flu still rising, and respiratory syncytial virus plateauing at a high level, it’s unclear how bad this year’s respiratory season will get. The latest ascendant coronavirus variant, JN.1, is particularly contagious and is spreading more widely. Still, Gin and other doctors say there is reason to be on guard they’re urging people to get their COVID-19 and flu vaccinations and asking sick people to say home and healthy people to avoid ill people.

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“It’s not causing intensive care units to be full of COVID-related illness, which is good.” Nancy Gin, regional medical director of quality and clinical analysis for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. So time will tell if the numbers that we see continue to go up,” said Dr. With COVID-19, “it’s continuing to go up, but it’s not as dramatic as, certainly, even two winters ago or even last winter, yet.