Ten days after July 4, coronavirus activity appears to be on the rise, according to san Diego County’s most recent case and hospitalization figures, bringing the region to the most severe point of the national MAP of COVID-19 activity maintained through the U. S. Centers for Disease. USA Control and Prevention.
Communities with 10 or more recent coronavirus-related hospitalizations consistent with 100,000 citizens are indexed at the level, which is orange. San Diego County, which reportedly has 384 new COVID hospitalizations overall over a consistent seven-day period through July 12, reached 11. 5 consistent with 100,000. Los Angeles and Orange counties joined San Diego in the top category for the first time this week, achieving 11 and 15. 2, respectively.
The county’s weekly coronavirus update indexed 2191 new cases, up from 1767 a week earlier. Analysis of local wastewater showed only about 7. 1 million copies of COVID as of July 6, the last time the data was updated. The number increased from 5. 9 million on June 23.
Today, there are few counties in California that aren’t colored orange on the map, a designation that recommends other people wear masks indoors. However, the state has been silent on its previous mandate requirement as indoor masks.
As of Wednesday, the cumulative total number of citizens in local non-military hospitals with proven or suspected COVID-19 infections was 410, the day in a row when the number exceeded 400. This is the first time the number has surpassed this mark since the beginning of March. However, the existing number of hospitalizations remains well below the winter peak, which capped the first increase of 1200 Omicron in January.
Healthcare providers learned during the winter that Omicron produced a less severe illness than its predecessors, it could still create a dead-end in emergency rooms as a large number of medical staff tested positive and called for poor fitness through the loads at a time when many were coming for a wide variety of fitness issues. including, but not limited to, coronavirus.
A new subvariant of highly transmissible coronavirus called BA. 5, which is thought to be nearly 10 times more infectious than the original strains, has been widely cited as the explanation for why cases continue to rise. Genetic research of local San Diego County wastewater conducted through an organization of UC San Diego researchers and Scripps Research found that, as of July 6, 72% of the samples collected and analyzed were BA. 5.
The question of the moment is: will this new wave have effects on local health care with too many frontline workers, hard-to-replace jobs getting sick?
Sharp Health Care, the region’s largest physical care formula with more than 20,000 workers, said its collective number of workers who called for poor fitness has hovered around 500 over the past month, reaching six hundred last week and reaching 567 on Wednesday.
So far, said John Cihomsky, Sharp’s vice president of communications, there has not yet been a need to halt previously scheduled operations and procedures, as was the case with the winter surge.
“(We don’t have) any discounts at the facility right now, and we’re filling staffing gaps with incentives to take extra shifts and travelers,” Cihomsky said in an email, referring to nurses settling for short-term contracts to help take care of the unexpected. sudden increases in demand.
Dr. Ghazala Sharieff, medical director of acute care and clinical excellence at Scripps, said it’s a similar scenario in the network of five hospitals. services. Scripps Health reported a hundred poor health calls consistent with the day.
She said she and others were worried about what might happen, with several big events on the calendar, adding san Diego International’s Comic-Con, by far the largest indoor event in the San Diego Convention Center’s domain takeover and most of the center’s dominance. . region next weekend.
The event requires all participants to cover their faces, regardless of their vaccination level, in addition to evidence of “full level of COVID-19 vaccination or evidence of a negative COVID-19 test conducted within 72 hours” of arrival.
Sharieff hopes the precautions will work, only for the general population, but also for the workers who attend.
“Right now, we need technique and management,” he said. But with the big events ahead, we’re worried about what might happen. “
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