“We’ll get through this last surge,” promised California Governor Gavin Newsom today at a Southern California vaccination site.Newsom said that, while Covid cases and test positivity are hitting all-time highs and hospitalizations are forecast to surge beyond last year’s peak, the state is experiencing, “What we hope is the last big surge of this pandemic.”His prediction comes just one day after the state hit an all-time high with 143,380 new cases, topping the 141,752 seen on January 4 of this year.
The Governor also announced today’s 7-day test positivity rate is 23% (it’s actually 23.1%), which is itself an all-time high.Despite the grim data, Newsom made a second forecast. “My sense is — on the basis of the ubiquity and what Dr.
Fauci and so many others have said that so many of us are likely to get this new variant — that we are in a new phase in a month or a few months in this pandemic,” he said.
Fauci said yesterday that, “I think, in many respects, Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will, ultimately, find just about everybody.”The man Newsom calls “our Dr.
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