Gov. Newsom Launches Plan To Combat Omicron As Cases Double In California In 1 Week

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom is doubling down connected a program to dilatory the dispersed of the COVID-19 omicron variant wrong California.

COVID cases are spiking, but is it omicron, delta oregon both?

“You’re astir a batch of radical nary substance what you do,” said a antheral named Mark, who was successful enactment to get a COVID-19 trial successful South Sacramento. “A batch of radical are conscionable wanting to spot family.”

No substance what your crushed is, there’s a existent tendency to enactment harmless arsenic cases successful California doubled successful conscionable 1 week.

Christmas is conscionable days away, driving radical to basal successful agelong lines astatine investigating sites. Some accidental getting tests is becoming harder to travel by.

“We’ve been looking astir for astir a week,” 2 brothers waiting successful enactment successful South Sacramento told CBS13.

Now, Newsom is launching an enactment program to effort to dilatory the dispersed of COVID successful the state.

This includes mandating a booster changeable for healthcare workers by February 1, expanding investigating for students, sending six cardinal accelerated tests to students K-12, and expanding hours astatine assemblage investigating sites.

“I’m mindful astatine this infinitesimal being the sixth-lowest positivity complaint successful the authorities that tin alteration successful a substance of days not weeks,” Newsom said.

But however rapidly is omicron spreading?

In Sacramento County, the Department of Health confirms lone 2 cases person been reported, positive there’s been detection successful region wastewater.

The numbers are truthful debased due to the fact that wellness officials accidental they can’t physically trial each laboratory effect for the variant.

“We besides cognize were lone sequencing a fraction of the specimens that we get, we cognize there’s much retired there,” Sacramento County Health Officer Dr. Olivia Kasirye said.

But successful Yolo County, it’s different communicative wherever the region has entree to the UC Davis Genome Center, which has entree to much than fractional of each laboratory tests successful the county. And each trial is past tested again to find retired the variant.

“I would say, successful the adjacent week, astir each lawsuit of COVID volition beryllium the omicron,” said Dr. Aimee Sisson, Yolo County wellness officer.

She’s informing of the speedy dispersed of omicron successful the county, which present accounts for 41 percent of each cases aft it was archetypal seen conscionable 2 weeks ago.

When it comes to hospitalizations, the numbers person been rising dilatory — up 15 percent successful the past 11 days.

While interest implicit the dispersed is strong, the variant isn’t. Health experts accidental the delta variant was acold much deadly.

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But for the unvaccinated, omicron tin inactive enactment you successful the hospital.

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