What’s Next for the Pandemic in California?

Downtown Los Angeles last week.Credit…Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press When my friend texted me last week to say that she had a fever, I nearly discounted the possibility that she might have contracted Covid-19. The case numbers are so low in California right now, I thought.

But, it turns out, she did have Covid. And, as I found out the next day, so did I.

Over the past 10 days, I’ve heard about more friends and acquaintances infected with the coronavirus in Los Angeles, where I live, than at any time other than the earliest days of the Omicron surge.

Of course, this might be my own bias, given my recent positive diagnosis. But outside of my Covid-19 bubble, too, there are growing concerns that the United States is headed for another Covid wave .Pandemic restrictions are being lifted, a more contagious Omicron subvariant is taking root nationwide, and infections are climbing in Western […]

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