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(Los Angeles, CA) — Health officials are asking some California residents to consider wearing face masks as COVID cases continue to increase there. In Los Angeles County, the positive test rate for COVID is more than 13-percent. That’s up five-percent from a few weeks ago.
It’s up nine-percent in Orange County. Yolo County Health Officer Aimee Sisson tells the L.A. Times she’s seeing a six-percent increase in positive COVID tests. Coronavirus levels are high in waste water across Sacramento. Sisson recommends people aged two and up mask up when in crowded indoor places.
Meanwhile, A late summer surge of COVID-19 cases is underway in the U.S. Tracking from the CDC found Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas have reported that 15 percent of COVID tests are turning up positive. Texas was also one of five states where wastewater data found “very high” virus activity levels. Despite the surge, reporting from the New York Times suggest the rise in cases is not surprising rather it is a pattern that has occurred every summer since the beginning of the pandemic.
