Testing data shows the positivity rate at 13.8%, up more than two percentage points from the week before, and approaching the record high for this time of year.
California’s COVID positivity has continued to leap forward with each weekly update from the state’s health department. Now, the state has reached the second highest positivity rate of any summer surge, approaching a record high for this time of year.
Two years ago, COVID’s seasonality — or lack thereof — was starting to become clear, and California had a nasty summer COVID surge. Headlines at the time warned of rising COVID reinfections, surging cases, hospitalizations and deaths. At the height of that surge, positivity rates reached 16%. Now, the seven-day average positivity rate is rapidly approaching that high, and showing no signs of slowing yet.
The state no longer tracks many of the metrics we first used to measure COVID surges and lulls. Case counts are gone, COVID hospitalizations are no longer tracked by the state health department, and while COVID deaths are still recorded on death certificates, it takes weeks for that data to be reported.
Ozdalga has seen an increase in patients with the virus in recent weeks. “There’s been a lot more patients with COVID,” he said, but “it continues to be that same theme — patients are admitted with COVID, not for COVID.”
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