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Those who test positive need to isolate and stay home only while they have symptoms. Those who test positive, but remain asymptomatic, do not need to do so.
The San Francisco Bay Area fared better during the COVID-19 pandemic than many other populated areas thanks in part to early stay-at-home orders, mask mandates and high uptake of vaccines, experts suggest.
Amid controversies over stay-at-home and masking orders, a lasting difference between Govs. Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis’ approach may end up being rhetoric on vaccine safety.
Higher rates of coronavirus transmission are leading to more COVID-19 outbreaks in Los Angeles County, with nursing homes, schools and worksites reporting increases in recent weeks.
Coronavirus levels have more than doubled in Los Angeles’ wastewater since the start of summer, state data show.
With the emergency phase of COVID-19 over, a Los Angeles Times analysis shows how the pandemic took different tolls on L.A. County and New York City.
Officials are monitoring a recent uptick in coronavirus transmission, but say it is too early to know how this will go.
There are hopeful signs in Los Angeles County that this summer will not be the harbinger of an increase in coronavirus cases, as has happened in each of the last three years.
The CDC now estimates XBB sublineages comprise nearly 99% of circulating coronavirus in the U.S., displacing the BA.5 subvariant that dominated the nation for much of last year.
Data and financial support are among the major resources necessary to appropriately prepare for public health threats, officials told HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in Long Beach.
