{"id":4216,"date":"2024-01-06T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2024-01-07T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T18:00:29","slug":"covid-19-intensifies-across-california-with-the-worst-likely-still-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-intensifies-across-california-with-the-worst-likely-still-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 intensifies across California, with the worst likely still to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winter COVID-and-flu season is ramping up in California and nationwide, with doctors and other experts saying the worst of the respiratory illness season is still to come.<\/p>\n<p>New data show pronounced recent jumps in the rate at which coronavirus and flu tests are coming back positive, as well as the number of hospital-admitted patients testing positive for the viruses. Workplaces are also seeing higher numbers of employees call in sick due to infections.<\/p>\n<p>National wastewater data suggest this winter could see the highest number of coronavirus infections occurring during any given week since the first Omicron wave began in fall 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winter COVID-and-flu season is ramping up in California and nationwide, with doctors and other experts saying the worst of the respiratory illness season is still to come.<\/p>\n<p>New data show pronounced recent jumps in the rate at which coronavirus and flu tests are coming back positive, as well as the number of hospital-admitted patients testing positive for the viruses. Workplaces are also seeing higher numbers of employees call in sick due to infections.<\/p>\n<p>National wastewater data suggest this winter could see the highest number of coronavirus infections occurring during any given week since the first Omicron wave began in fall 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-intensifies-across-california-with-the-worst-likely-still-to-come\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19 intensifies across California, with the worst likely still to come<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162,18,78,77,80,49,14,51],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitalizations","tag-influenza","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4218,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}