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California Under Winter 'Tripledemic' Fears

by Colleen Fleiss on Nov 4 2022 11:23 PM
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California Under Winter `Tripledemic` Fears
In California, this winter, experts have warned of a potential "tripledemic", with rise in cases of COVID-19, flu, respiratory syncytial virus.
That’s down 4 percent from the previous week, but the rate of decline has slowed, Xinhua news agency quoted a local media report as saying.

Tripledemic Expectation this Winter

California, home to around 40 million residents, is now conducting only about 72,000 COVID-19 tests a day, its lowest testing volume since the first three months of the pandemic.

The state was processing more than 250,000 daily lab tests as recently as in early June, the report added.

As a result, statewide testing positivity is resurging in California, up from 4.1 percent last week to 4.5 percent as of Thursday.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are also creeping back up, the report said.

California, once an epicentre of the pandemic in the country, reported a total of 10,519,175 confirmed cases to date, along with 96,185 deaths.

Source-IANS


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