There are some encouraging signs that the summer alliance wave in California may be escalating.
However, that’s not to say that the seasonal spikes are still in the rearview mirror. Coronavirus levels in California wastewater remain “Very high”, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they are in much of the country.
But while some common indicators in Golden State are rising, others are starting to fall – suggesting that the summer wave may start to decline soon.
Statewide, the rate at which coronavirus lab tests recovered positive positives was 11.72% in the late September 6th, the highest week so far this season, up from 10.8% in the previous week. Nevertheless, the levels of viruses in the wastewater are significantly lower than those in The peak of last summer.
The latest Covid hospital admission rate is 3.9 per 100,000 residents. It dropped slightly from 4.14 last week. Overall, co-hospital rates remain low statewide, especially compared to the early trends.
In Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties, the number of newly admitted Covid hospital patients has dropped slightly, but has a tick effect in Orange County. In San Francisco, some doctors believe that the summer rospore is reaching the top.
“There are more people in the hospital, but I think it’s less than last summer,” said Dr. Peter Chin-hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco. “I think we’re on the plateau.”
Chin-hon said those who are hospitalized are often older people who did not immunize Covid last year, and some have a secondary infection called superimposed bacterial pneumonia.
Los Angeles County
In Los Angeles County, there are some hints that co-activity either peaks or starts to decline. Virus levels in local wastewater are still rising, but the test positive rate is declining.
In the week ending September 6, 12.2% of the lab specimens tested by the county were positive, down from 15.9% of the previous week.
“In this week’s data, many indicators of COVID-19 activity in Los Angeles County have fallen,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health told the New York Times on Friday. “While it’s too early to know if we’ve passed the summer peak of Covid-19 activity this season, it’s a sign that community transmission is slowing.”
Orange County
In Orange County, “we seem to be in the middle of the wave right now,” said Dr. Christopher Zimmerman, associate medical director of the county’s infectious disease control department.
Test positivity rates have been flat in recent weeks – 15.3% for the week ending September 6, up from 12.9% the previous week, but down from 17.9% the previous week.
However, Covid is still driving people to seek emergency medical services. 2.9% of emergency room visits in the county are the highest this year as of September 6, 2.6% of the week ending on August 30.
San Diego County
In the week ending September 6, 14.1% of the coronavirus lab tests in San Diego County were positive. This is 15.5% from the previous week’s test positivity rate and 16.1% in the week ending on August 23.
Ventura County
Covid still sends people to emergency rooms in Ventura County. County-wide, 1.73% of emergency room patients in the week ending September 12 were there, up from 1.46% in the previous week.
San Francisco
In San Francisco, the test positivity rate for the week ending September 7 was 7.5%, down from 8.4% of the week ending August 31.
“Covid-19 activity in San Francisco is still rising, but not as high as the peak it was in the previous summer,” the local public health department said.
Silicon Valley
In Santa Clara County, the coronavirus remains “high” in the sewers in San Jose and Palo Alto.
About 1.3% of emergency visits ending the week Sunday were attributed to Coovede in Santa Clara County, down from 2% of the previous week.
