A summer surge of the stubborn coronavirus appears to be building.
A healthcare worker places solution droplets into a rapid antigen Covid-19 test at a Reliant Health Services testing site in Hawthorne, California on January 18, 2022. Once again it seems like a lot of people are coming down with COVID in the Bay Area, and data shows the increase in cases is not just anecdotal.
“It’s nothing approaching the winter, it’s not even as high as it was a year ago at this date,” he said. Metrics for the virus have been lower so far in 2024 than they were in 2023, he said. And deaths reached record-lows in California this spring, including the first day in over four years with no COVID deaths in the state.
Swartzberg acknowledged that even though rates are rising, we are in a much better place than in previous years. But he still finds it “very upsetting” that more seniors and vulnerable people are not getting the updated shots, released last fall, and boosters that are recommended.
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