""There is a lot of COVID out there," said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UC San Francisco. "COVID is coming a little bit later than last year.""
""We are seeing outpatient cases increase," said Dr. Elizabeth E. Hudson, the regional physician chief of infectious diseases for Kaiser Permanente Southern California. "With back-to-school season in full swing ... we are expecting to see an uptick in COVID in children over the next few weeks and this is already being seen in some parts of the country.""
""California's in the middle of a COVID-19 wave, and statewide rates are among the highest in the nation.""
Wastewater viral concentrations have increased in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties in recent weeks. L.A. County reported a rise in hospitalized COVID patients and a test positivity rate of 12.6% for the week ending Aug. 16, up from 7.6% a month earlier. Orange County test positivity increased to 14.4% from 8.1%. Outpatient cases are rising and back-to-school activity is expected to boost pediatric cases. Emergency visits and hospitalizations among senior residents in Orange County are increasing. The XFG (Stratus) Omicron subvariant accounts for the majority of variants detected in wastewater. Vaccine rollout faces uncertainty due to delays and decisions by the Trump administration.
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