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Across the state, COVID positivity rates continue to soarThe latest data from Friday showed the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive remains just 0.1% below its highest point in the past 12 months, and there have only been a few weeks in the past three years where the positivity rate has exceeded 13%.
After hitting a record low in March, it grew slowly in May, The percentage of positive coronavirus tests began to rise sharply in June..
upon As of June 1, the positivity rate was 4.1%, up from just under 2% in May.As of July 8, the most recent date for which data is available, that rate had tripled to 13.0%. The state’s positivity rate is now higher than it was during this winter’s COVID-19 surge, when it was just over 11%, and is on track to surpass its most recent high of 13.1% in September 2023.
The highest positivity rates since COVID-19 tests became readily available occurred in December 2021 and January 2022, when the positivity rate exceeded 20% for nearly three weeks.
Deaths have also been rising slightly in recent weeks. About 2% of California’s deaths in early July were due to COVID, according to the most recent data available. That’s still lower than the 3.5% figure during this year’s winter surge and far lower than January 2021, when 40% of all California deaths were due to COVID.
But death counts tend to lag by several weeks, and it can take several weeks for the data to catch up.
Before this summer’s surge, COVID deaths hit record lowIt has remained well below 1% since March of this year and is consistently the lowest since the pandemic began.
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