Latest numbers show presence of new coronavirus variant continues to grow in San Diego County
With a new variant on the prowl, as was the case this time last year, it would be reasonable to expect that coronavirus would be surging. But the latest weeklyThe first week of the new year tallied 3,344 positive COVID-19 tests reported compared to 85,726 during the same seven-day span one year ago. It’s an astounding difference surely affected by the fact that home testing is much more prevalent these days, and many positives are never communicated to the public health department.
The bulk of this season’s flu total — 10,567 of 20,379 cases confirmed so far — came in November. Generally, January and February see the biggest flu months. The amount of coronavirus detected by SEARCH in local wastewater was also on the rise in the latest report, though a differentFor the moment, though, health providers are experiencing a slight reprieve from where things were when the flu, coronavirus and respiratory syncytial virus surged in November and definitely compared to the gridlock that occurred one year ago when some hospitals reported internal emergencies due to patient overloads in ERs.
Emergency traffic, though, has remained heavy, he added, with a lot of the volume not necessarily related to respiratory illnesses.“We will take any win we can get,” Van Gorder said. “Nobody is more tired of COVID than we are, and any bed we can free up means we can get a patient waiting in the emergency department into an available and staffed bed.Dr.
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