The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 39 new deaths throughout L.A. County, 6,994 new cases countywide and 219 new cases in the Santa Clarita Valley over long holiday weekend.
to come down over the last four weeks, it has come down steadily and it could bounce back up as we head into 2023, but i m hoping not it is still, you should still get your influenza vaccine, if you haven t gotten it, the level of flu activity is still pretty high but it is coming down. the not so good news is that there is a commensurate rise in the covid-19 cases and it is not just the rise in cases but hospitalizations are going up as you point out and we have some new variants in place, so i call them the scrabble variants, because they use high value scrabble letters like x, v, and q, so there is bq.1, bq.1.1, and what we are seeing in new york is somewhat unique we are seeing this variant called xvb which is about half of the iisolates in new york according to the centers for disease control. and why i bring that up the new
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 23 new deaths throughout L.A. County, 3,006 new cases countywide and 93 new cases in the Santa Clarita Valley.
BQ.1.1 was estimated to make up about 38.4 per cent of circulating variants in the week ending December 17, and BQ.1 was estimated to make up 30.7 per cent, according to CDC data. 🌎 Coronavirus Pandemic: New Omicron Subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 Account for Nearly 70% New COVID-19 Cases in US.
New Omicron subvariant BQ.1.1 was estimated to make up about 38.4% of circulating variants in the week ending December 17, and BQ.1 was estimated to make up 30.7%, according to CDC data