California and San Diego County's pandemic emergencies are over, what's next

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After three years, California and San Diego County's pandemic emergencies are over, but that does not mean COVID-19 is gone.

Lawrence Mendoza of Vista is vaccinated at the COVID-19 vaccination site at CSU San Marcos. Feb. 22, 2021.

Last Thursday Scripps had 83 COVID-19 patients admitted at their hospitals across the county, but that is far from the daily counts, which reached up to 500 during surges. Van Gorder said it's time to end the state and local emergencies. "There’s probably a lot of people — including hospital employees — that are curious about that," Van Gorder said."We’ll wait and see. The state may decide to waive that when they waive the health care emergency — or they may extend it."The state and county have been winding down their pandemic responses. Long-gone are the mass drive-up vaccination and testing sites. San Diego County Public Health Officer Dr. Wilma Wooten has been leading the region's pandemic response.

"The cases are not as low as I’d like to see them," Wooten said."They’re between the mid to 200’s — that is evidence that the virus is still circulating in our community and we can't rest on our laurels ... The pandemic is not over." Topol is not forecasting any substantive changes with the state and local pandemic emergencies going away. The virus has been producing new variants, and while things are relatively quiet, he would like to see investments in better vaccines.

"It all depends on whether this virus can find a new path to hurt us," he said."Whether it’s run its course with all these recent variants we’ve been through — then it will be in an endemic state."

 

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