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The answer is yes.
By Soumya Karlamangla
There is a new variant of Covid in the city.
The variant, called KP. 2, is overtaking what had been the dominant Covid variant for most of the year in the United States, raising the prospect of a summer surge in cases in California and across the country.
It wouldn’t exactly be surprising. Covid has never stopped circulating in our communities, and every year since 2020 we’ve noticed a resurgence of cases in the winter and then in the summer.
So far in 2024, the Covid spread rate has been low. Most of us now have multiple degrees of immunity to the virus due to vaccines, past infections, or both. So if we flare up again, the threat of serious illness is much lower than in the past. On April 2, for the first time since the pandemic began, California experienced a day without a single Covid death, the Bay Area News Group reported.
That said, a vital sign of caution: the amount of Covid detected in sewage, has increased in the U. S. The U. S. Department of Health and Drug Administration has been in the U. S. since mid-May, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though it’s still minimal. It’s been in the West, where California has the highest sewage points, as far as is known.
The percentage of other people testing positive for the virus in PCR tests has also increased in California since the beginning of the month, according to state data.
“A small increase is imminent,” Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told me. “I think it’s going to keep going up a little bit, but it’s probably going to be less than last year. “
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