Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, visited the vaccination site at Ted Watkins Memorial Park in Los Angeles and discussed the next phase of getting Americans to get the COVID-19 shot.
A California measure that would allow children ages 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, including against the coronavirus, has cleared its first legislative committee.in coronavirus transmission for the better part of a month. The reported average number of daily new coronavirus cases has jumped 28% in the last week — from 1,764 to 2,264.
Officials have expressed optimism that the recent increases have, to this point, been relatively gradual — rather than the runaway transmission seen during the pandemic’s first Omicron wave, when the number of daily cases reported doubled or tripled from one week to the next. While current conditions warrant caution, Walensky said she thinks the widespread availability of vaccines, tests and therapeutics have helped level the pandemic playing field.
However, COVID-19 has thrown many a curveball during its two-plus year rampage across the globe. The latest is a small family of highly infectious Omicron subvariants, which have been blamed for the new infection spikes in L.A. County and elsewhere.
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