COVERAGE AND A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE STATE TODAY EFFECVETI APRIL 1ST PEOPLE ATTENDING LARGE INDOOR EVENTS. MEGA EVENTS WILL NO LONGER NEED TO SHOW PROOF OF VACCINATION OR A NEGATIVE COVID TEST. THIS WOULD APPLY TO EVENTS WITH MORE THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE NOW VENUES CAN STILL CHOOSE TO REQUIRE PROOF IF THEY WANT, BUT IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S NO LONGER MANDATORY ON A STATIDEWE LEVEL HEALTH LEADERS DO RECOMMEND WEARING A MASK. IN A LARGE CROWD TOMORROW UYO SEE DAVIS WILL LIFT ITS INDOOR MASK MANDATE MASS WILL NO LONGER REQUIRED IN CLASSROOMS, BUT MASS. RECOMMENDED REGULAR COVID TESTING ON THAT CAMPUS IS STILL REQUIRED. SO THOSE RESTRICTIONS ARE SETO T LIFT AS COVID CASES ARE DROPPING ACROSS CALIFORNIA. HERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S THE GRAPHS THAT SWHO IT SHOWS THE CASES SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC AND THE STATE REPORTED 400,5EW N INFECTIONS. THAT WAS YESTERDAY. AND THE TEST POSITIVITY REAT IS AT 1.5 PERCENT NOT A HOSPITALIZATIONS ALL SO ON ETH DECLINE ABOUT 2,000EO PPLE ARE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID STATEWIDE AND A SUBVARIANT OF THE OMICRON VARIANT IS BECOMING MORE PREVALENT THE A2 VARNTIA HAS DRIVEN A RECENT SURGING CASES IN THE UK GROWING 80% FA STER THAN THE ORIGINAL OMICRON VARIANT. SO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WATCHING RIGHT REALLY CLOSELY BA2 HAS BEEN DETECTED THROUGH WASTEWATER TESTING HERE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. SO SOME PEOPLE ARE WONDERING IF WE COULD SEE ANOTHER SURGE UC DAVIS HEAHLT PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT DR. DEAN BLUMBERG JOINS US NOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. HOW HIGH IS THE RISK OF THIS SUB-VARIANT AND WHETHER WE COULD SEE ANOTHER SPIKE WELL, IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S 80% MORE. DISMISSIBLE THAN THE ORIGINAL OMICRON STRAIN AND IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S AUTBO 23% OF THE CIRCULATING STRAINS IN THE US RHTIG NOW. IT'바카라 게임 웹사이트 BEEN TRIPLING IN PROPORTION EVERY TWO WEEKS AND STUDIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES SUGGEST THAT IF IT REACHES 50% OF THE CIRCULATING STRAINS, THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S THE TIPPING POINT WHERE A SURGE THEN OCCURS IN OERTH WORDS IN THE ENDEMIC PHASE OF THE PANDEMIC HOW WORRIED SHOULD PEOEPL BE ABOUT THIS NEW VARIANT. YOU KNOW EVERY NEW VARIANT, WE바카라 게임 웹사이트REOT N SURE EXACTLY HOW IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S GOING. REACT AND IF IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S GOING TO LEAD TO A SURGE OR NOT, SO I THINK YOU KNOW WE NEED T POAY ATTENTION TO ALL OF THESE AND THEN SEE WT'H바카라 게임 웹사이트S GOING TO HAPPEN AND OTHER COUNTRIES. IT HAS LED TO A SURGE WHEN WHEN IT'바카라 게임 웹사이트 REACHED A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION IN THE UK AT ACCOUNTS RFO ABOUT 82% OF THE CIRCULATING STRAINS AND THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE HAVING A SURGE IN DENMARKET ACCOUNTSOR F 99% OF A STRAIN THE STRAINS AND THEY바카라 게임 웹사이트RE HAVING A SURGE ALSO. SO, I MEAN WE바카라 게임 웹사이트VE BEEN TALKING TO YOU NOW FOR FOR TWO YEARS OF THIS PANDEMIC PLUS. WE바카라 게임 웹사이트VE LEAEDRN A LOT. SO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAE NOW THAT WE바카라 게임 웹사이트RE SEEING AEW N VARIANT, BUT WE WE KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW THIS VIRUS ACTS WE KNOW MORE ABOUT HOW TO TREAT IT. WELL, WE WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT. YOU KNOW, I MEAN EVERYBODY바카라 게임 웹사이트S MORE AWARE OF THE VIR. AND EPIDEMIOLOGY NOW NOT JUST SCIENTISTS, BUT THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S STILL A LOT THAT WE DON바카라 게임 웹사이트T KWNO SO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE IMMEUN AFTER VACCINATIONR O INFECTION FOR ABOUT THREE OR FOUR MONTHS, BUTHE TN IMMUNITY DOES WANE AND THE BREAKTHROUGH INFECTIONS MAY OCCUR. SO WE HAD THAT SURGE IN JANUARY IN LATE JANUARY WHEN IT PEAKED DAN SO WE THINK THAT MAYBE IN LATE APRIL OR MAY WE MIGHTE B PRONE TO ANOTHER SURGE, BUT WE바카라 게임 웹사이트RE STILL LEARNING ABOUT THE DYNAMICS. IMMUNITY WITHIN POPULATIONS AND HOW THAT RELATES TO THESE VARIANTS DR. BOLBERG. I WANT TO GET YOU TO WEIGH IN ON ONE OF THE HEADLINES THE COVID HEADLINES HERE IN THE STATE ON APRIL 1ST. INDOOR MEGA EVENTS ARE NOW YOU DON바카라 게임 웹사이트T NEED TO SHOW A PROOF OF VACCINATION. A LOT OF RESTRICTIONS ARE GOING AWAY. DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT? DO YOU THINK THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S A IDEA? WHAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S YOUR STANCE? I MEAN, WE바카라 게임 웹사이트RE ALL TIRED OF THE LOCKDOWN ALL WE바카라 게임 웹사이트VE LIMITED OURSELVES IN TERMS OF OUR OPPORTUNITIES OF EXPERIENCING THINGS TOGETHER. WE ALL WANT TO GET BACK TO NORMAL. SO I THINK IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S GREAT TMAO KE THOSE PLANS TO DO THAT. BUT BE AWARE THAT WE MIGHT HAVE TO CHAENG OUR PLANS DEPENDING ON CIRCUMSTANCES WE CAN WE SHOULD HOPE FOR THE BEST BUT NDEE TO BE FLEXIBLE AND AND MAYBE MASKING IS GOING TO BE REINSTITUTED. I HOPE NOT. I HOPE THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S NOT NECESSARY, BUT IT MIGHT BE YH,EA WE SHARE THAT. HOPE DR. BLUMBERG. THAN Y
Q&A: Could the BA.2 variant lead to another surge in COVID-19 cases?
Updated: 8:01 PM EDT Mar 21, 2022
The BA.2 variant of COVID-19 is surging in the United Kingdom and is growing 80% faster than the original omicron variant strain that caused record cases in the United States during the winter surge in January. Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Health in California, weighed in on the subvariant and its possible impacts while speaking with sister station KCRA.Q: How high is the risk of this subvariant and whether we could see another spike?Blumberg: It's 80% more transmissible than the original omicron strain, and it's about 23% of the circulating strains in the U.S. right now. It's been tripling in proportion every two weeks. and studies in other countries suggest that if it reaches 50% of the circulating strains, that's the tipping point where a surge then occurs.Q: Now that we're in the endemic phase of the pandemic, how worried should people be about this new variant?Blumberg: Every new variant, we're not sure exactly how it's going to react, and if it's going to lead to a surge or not, so I think we need to pay attention to all of these and then see what's going to happen. In other countries, it has led to a surge when it's reached a significant proportion. In the UK, it accounts for about 82% of the circulating strains and they're having a surge. In Denmark, it accounts for 99% of the strains, and they're having a surge, also.Q: We've been talking to you now for two years of this pandemic. We've learned a lot. What difference does that make now that we're seeing a new variant but we know more about how this virus acts? Blumberg: Well, we have learned a lot. Everybody's more aware about the virology and the epidemiology now 바카라 게임 웹사이트 not just scientists, but there's still a lot that we don't know. So we know that people are immune after vaccination or infection for about three or four months, but then immunity does wane and the breakthrough infections may occur. So we had that surge in January and late January when it peaked, and so we think that maybe in late April and may that we might be prone to another surge, but we're still learning about the dynamics about immunity within populations and how that relates to these variants.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The BA.2 variant of COVID-19 is surging in the United Kingdom and is growing 80% faster than the original omicron variant strain that caused record cases in the United States during the winter surge in January.
Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Health in California, weighed in on the subvariant and its possible impacts while speaking with sister station KCRA.
Q: How high is the risk of this subvariant and whether we could see another spike?
Blumberg: It's 80% more transmissible than the original omicron strain, and it's about 23% of the circulating strains in the U.S. right now. It's been tripling in proportion every two weeks. and studies in other countries suggest that if it reaches 50% of the circulating strains, that's the tipping point where a surge then occurs.
Q: Now that we're in the endemic phase of the pandemic, how worried should people be about this new variant?
Blumberg: Every new variant, we're not sure exactly how it's going to react, and if it's going to lead to a surge or not, so I think we need to pay attention to all of these and then see what's going to happen. In other countries, it has led to a surge when it's reached a significant proportion. In the UK, it accounts for about 82% of the circulating strains and they're having a surge. In Denmark, it accounts for 99% of the strains, and they're having a surge, also.
Q: We've been talking to you now for two years of this pandemic. We've learned a lot. What difference does that make now that we're seeing a new variant but we know more about how this virus acts?
Blumberg: Well, we have learned a lot. Everybody's more aware about the virology and the epidemiology now 바카라 게임 웹사이트 not just scientists, but there's still a lot that we don't know. So we know that people are immune after vaccination or infection for about three or four months, but then immunity does wane and the breakthrough infections may occur. So we had that surge in January and late January when it peaked, and so we think that maybe in late April and may that we might be prone to another surge, but we're still learning about the dynamics about immunity within populations and how that relates to these variants.