The novel coronavirus continues to evolve and spread around the country, causing severe disease and numerous deaths in San Diego County, particularly among vulnerable populations such as people with compromised immune systems.
Travelers, some wearing masks, wait in long lines to check luggage before going through airport security on their way out of San Diego, Calif. Dec. 23, 2022.
Although the seven-day average number of newly reported COVID-19 cases dipped slightly in December, those numbers could rise again as post-holiday data comes in. “I think we have two weeks, maybe three weeks of pain still coming – COVID cases and flu cases,” said Dr. Davey Smith, head of infectious diseases at University of California San Diego. “We're only a few days past Christmas, so it's really hard to tell.”
While 81% of eligible people in San Diego County have been vaccinated, only 21% have received the newer bivalent booster meant to combat omicron. The newer subvariants may be more likely to cause breakthrough infection, although doctors still recommend the vaccines to prevent severe infection, hospitalization and death.
“We’re in a different phase of COVID-19,” Wooten said. “Our recommendations follow the science and we align with CDC, as well as [the California Department of Public Health] in those recommendations.”
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