Although Santa Cruz County health care facilities aren’t seeing the same “tripledemic” that strained services last winter, COVID, flu and RSV are still making the rounds. Flu numbers are increasing quickly, while COVID has not hit the county particularly hard yet. Although the latest subvariant of interest, JN.1, shows the ability to be more infectious and better evade vaccines, county deputy health officer Cal Gordon said vaccines still appear to provide good protection against serious illness.
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COVID Dashboard: Pandemic caused biggest decline in birth rates in 50 years
News of the week Monday’s update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 271 active cases. That’s 36 fewer than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and […]
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COVID Dashboard: Infant brain damage highlights significant unknowns
News of the week Monday’s update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 307 active cases. That’s 35 more than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country according to the Centers for Disease Control. Santa […]
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COVID Dashboard: Nasal vaccine making progress
News of the week Monday’s update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 272 active cases. That’s 15 fewer than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Local […]
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COVID Dashboard: Is another bivalent booster coming?
News of the week Monday’s update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 287 active cases. That’s just 7 fewer than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. […]
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COVID Dashboard: Santa Cruz County drops to ‘moderate’ transmission tier
News of the week Monday’s update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 294 active cases. That’s 34 fewer than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country according to the Centers for Disease Control. Local […]
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COVID Dashboard: Future exposure at younger ages could lead to weakened virus
News of the week Monday’s update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 328 active cases. That’s 65 fewer than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country according to the Centers for Disease Control. Local […]
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COVID Dashboard: County health pivoting to wastewater data rather than case counts
News of the week A Monday update of the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency’s COVID case count showed 338 cases, down by 56 from the previous Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country according to the Centers for Disease Control. […]
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COVID Dashboard: California passes 100,000 deaths
California ends its COVID-19 emergency declarations Tuesday, just shy of three years since they were first issued. While…
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COVID Dashboard: California’s COVID state of emergency to end next week
News of the week Locally, COVID cases continue to climb slowly. The county recorded 464 active cases as of Tuesday’s update from the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency. That’s 63 more than last Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. Hospitalizations are down across the country […]