COVID-19 Leveling Off in California as Some Northeastern States See New Surges

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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California on Friday dropped its requirement that those attending indoor events with more than 1000 people show proof of vaccination or a negative test, the latest manifestation of the state's decision to manage COVID-19 as an endemic virus as cases and deaths level off statewide. But public health officials are watching the highly transmissible omicron subvariant BA.2, which has caused surges in parts of Europe and Asia and, recently, in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. We’ll take stock of how California is faring in this stage, and we’ll also look at recent studies on the longer term cognitive and cardiovascular impacts of coronavirus infection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.3	Coming up on forum, public health officials in California are keeping an eye on BA2,
0:56.0	Omicron's more contagious sub-variant.
0:59.0	It's been blamed for surges in the UK, China, and other parts of Europe and Asia.
1:03.0	BA2 became dominant in the U.S. last week, but it's unclear what kind of impact it will have here.
1:10.0	As California continues to relax rules aimed at reducing COVID transmission,
1:14.7	we talk with Scripps Research Institute's Eric Topal about what to be on the lookout for
1:19.4	and about the latest round of studies showing troubling long-term health problems after a COVID infection.
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1:36.4	Thank you. problems after a COVID infection. Join us after this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Several states in the Northeast are now seeing jumps in COVID-19 cases,
1:46.0	some by as much as 40%. So will California see the same thing?
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