In Santa Clara County, Northern California’s most populous, coronavirus levels in the San Jose area’s sewage are at 62% of last winter’s peak. County were classified as related to the coronavirus, also enough to warrant a medium level of concern. And for the week that ended Sunday, 5% of emergency department encounters in L.A.

There were 24 new COVID outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities for the week that ended Tuesday, which represents a medium level of concern in the county’s established rubric. County was reporting 6.5 new coronavirus-positive hospital admissions for every 100,000 residents, which is considered a low level as defined by the CDC. County’s health system is still relatively low, however. Some San Francisco Bay Area counties are reinstituting mask requirements in healthcare settings to coincide with arrival of the annual respiratory illness season. County’s hospitals, up about 66% from the prior month.Ĭalifornia Bay Area reinstates COVID mask orders in healthcare settings. 16, there were an average of 601 coronavirus-positive people in L.A. Unlike before, when people might have known where they picked up the coronavirus, “now, they’re not aware of any direct exposures.”įor the week ending Dec. “They’re actually pretty surprised when they come down with COVID,” Montalvo said. Healthcare workers, he said, take care to try to convince patients to stay home when they’re ill. Rafael Montalvo - chair of the urgent care department for the Facey Medical Group, which oversees clinics in Burbank, Mission Hills and Valencia - said some patients who are sick have been fairly nonchalant about their illness and are eager to work or remain out and about. And in the first holiday season since the end of COVID’s emergency phase, people are perhaps not being as cautious as they once were in terms of testing or staying at home if they are sick.ĭr. Other factors in the spread of COVID-19, which have been seen consistently this time of year since the pandemic began, are holiday travel and gatherings indoors. Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis’ approach may end up being rhetoric on vaccine safety. Florida: The surprising answer to which state handled COVID betterĪmid controversies over stay-at-home and masking orders, a lasting difference between Govs.

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