LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — While the state and federal governments have ended their respective COVID-19 emergencies, the virus is still highly active, with case surges taking place across the country and locally.
The state of California’s COVID-19 dashboard showed this week that case numbers began going up earlier this summer and are still on the rise.
The latest numbers for the state, reported through Aug. 3, show California’s testing positivity rate is 8.7%.
Lake County’s positivity rate is 15.2%, down by half a percentage point from the previous week.
State tracking of Lake County’s positivity rate showed that it started to spike in June, dropped in July and then began to rise to its highest levels since the previous June.
The current positivity rate is higher than rates seen in December, which were below 10%.
For comparison, Lake County’s seven-day positivity rate reached its highest point in the pandemic in January 2022, when it hit 25.7%.
State tracking shows that Lake County has typically had two main case spikes a year, one in the summer, beginning in June, and a second, stretching from December to February.
One Lake County resident was reported to be hospitalized due to the coronavirus as of Aug. 3, while there are a total of 906 hospitalized across California.
The state reported that Lake County has had a total of 168 deaths attributed to COVID-19, which is 19 deaths since the start of the year, according to Lake County News’ tracking of virus-related deaths.
The number of deaths statewide is 103,054.
To date, 195,401 total tests performed in Lake County while 202,230,035 have been performed statewide.
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Lake County sees summer COVID-19 spike
- Elizabeth Larson
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