The fact that California navigated what was, for many, the closest thing to a normal holiday season since 2019, without a record-setting spike in infections or surge in hospitalizations, is cause for optimism.
“Vaccinations, including bivalent boosters, can help protect you from getting seriously ill or even dying,” said Dr. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s public health officer.in indoor public settings and doubling down on hand-washing and other health hygiene efforts — also may have played a role.
“While nothing can be said with certainty, currently we’re seeing evidence that our tools to fight COVID-19, including masks, the bivalent booster and therapeutics, are working,” Ferrer said Thursday.Case counts across California have dropped steadily since the first week of December, and so have coronavirus levels in wastewater.
In L.A. County, wastewater levels began declining in early December, although in recent weeks, they have plateaued at about 70% of last summer’s peak — still a high level of concern,“While wastewater concentration levels are not low, simultaneously, we’re not seeing the postholiday spike that was expected by the end of the first week in January,” Ferrer said.In San Diego County, Wooten said inthat “the virus is still circulating in the region.
Elsewhere, recent analysis “shows wastewater signals decreasing in the Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions, and plateauing in the Bay Area” and Northern California, the state Department of Public Health wrote
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