People can end isolation as early as Day 6 if their symptoms are mild and improving and they’ve been fever-free for 24 hours without needing to take fever-reducing medicine. The county also recommends that people with COVID-19 isolate and stay home for at least five days after their first symptoms or positive test, whichever comes first, and wear a mask when around others, such as family members or roommates. Also, anyone who has any respiratory symptoms, such as a cough, runny nose or sore throat, should also wear a covering if they need to be around people.Ĭalifornia California’s COVID comeback intensifies, but officials say there’s no cause for alarmĬoronavirus levels have more than doubled in Los Angeles’ wastewater since the start of summer, state data show. County health officials recommend that people who have been in close contact with someone infected with the coronavirus mask up for 10 days from the last day they were exposed. 1 through March 31, its designated “winter respiratory virus period.”Īlameda County, the region’s second-most populous, requires skilled nursing facility employees to wear masks in patient-care areas. In Santa Clara County, Northern California’s most populous, masks will again be required for generally everyone in healthcare facilities from Nov.
Ferrer said that more than 20% of outbreaks at such facilities involve more than 25 residents. Once the coronavirus enters a skilled nursing facility, there’s often rapid spread. It’s a recommendation unless there’s an outbreak, in which case everyone has to mask up.” “Already, now we recommend that people start putting their masks back on in skilled nursing facilities. These are “places where people are really sick, really vulnerable,” Ferrer said. Should we be wearing masks again?Īmid the latest coronavirus uptick in California, health officials reiterate the same advice: Masks work, but it’s a personal preference whether to wear them. Kaiser Santa Rosa recently instated a mask requirement for healthcare employees due to the rise in local coronavirus transmission.Ĭalifornia COVID-19 is ‘heating up all around’ this summer. It would be reasonable, health officials say, to expect that mask requirements could be reinstated in some places, such as hospitals and nursing homes, should conditions warrant. Most other California counties ended masking requirements for healthcare employees in April. San Francisco requires healthcare employees to wear a mask when around patients, a mandate that was dropped by L.A. Other California counties do have mask requirements still on the books, but they are limited. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, generally requires that employees who have been exposed during an active worksite COVID-19 outbreak temporarily mask up to quell spread of the virus.įerrer suggested that people wear masks at healthcare facilities and on public transit, and that higher-risk residents wear them in crowded indoor places. There are still plenty of reasons people may choose to wear masks, health officials say, and for them to be required in limited situations.
Officials had expressed concern that BA.2.86, or Pirola, might be able to more easily infect those who had received older vaccines or had caught the coronavirus before.
“When deaths go down to a much lower level, that is a compelling argument that we’re in a new stage of this pandemic.”Ĭalifornia New COVID vaccine, due as early as next week, appears to work well against Pirola subvariant County, we’re still averaging about one, one and a half recorded new deaths a day,” Ferrer said. During the pandemic’s first winter, hospital morgues were so overwhelmed the National Guard was called in to help transport corpses.īut thanks to effective vaccines, the development of anti-COVID therapeutic drugs like Paxlovid and years of built-up community immunity from prior infections, the risk of dying from or becoming seriously ill with COVID-19 is now much lower - making more forceful interventions such as mask mandates unnecessary. Health officials say the sweeping actions mandated by government officials earlier in the pandemic were aimed at keeping hospitals from being so overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients that doctors would be forced to ration care - a fear that came close to reality before vaccines were widely available. The number could very well rise over time, since deaths are a lagging indicator of coronavirus spread, but the fact that it hasn’t yet so far is notable. County is recording an average of one death a day from COVID-19, a number that has remained stable despite the increase in coronavirus circulation. The Huntington Beach City Council voted to ban implementing COVID-19 vaccine and mask requirements in the city.įerrer noted that L.A. California Despite uptick in infections, Huntington Beach moves to ban COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates
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