California sees COVID retreat now, but new variants bring caution as colder weather nears
Instead, state health officials now recommend universal masking only for counties with a high COVID-19 community level, a category defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that indicates coronavirus transmission has risen to the point that it’s possibly starting to negatively affect hospitals.
However, the state’s new guidance said nothing about when, or whether, widespread public masking would ever again become mandatory.of reinstituting a new universal public indoor mask order, has demonstrated a willingness to do so in the event of a serious fall and winter surge.
The last time L.A. County had a case rate this low was for a 50-day span between March 5 and April 23, before a spate of Omicron subvariants sent case rates climbing during the late spring and summer. Last autumn, the county’s case rate remained under this threshold for a 67-day period, between Sept. 29 and Dec. 4.
“The fact that we’re no longer seeing decreases in wastewater data is a reminder that transmission remains substantial across the county, and sensible precautions will help reduce risk,” Ferrer said.“It isn’t like we got down to very low levels of the virus, like we [did in] in June of 2021,” he said. “We’ve still got a lot of cases.”
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