The dominant COVID strain, according to health officials, is now omicron subvariant BA.5, infecting more Californians each day, and now many of those people are needing hospitalization.
Right now in California, more than 4,400 people are in the hospital for COVID, compared with fewer than 1,000 just three months ago.
That’s a far cry from last winter’s surge of 15,000 hospitalizations and the 20,000 seen during the first COVID winter.Stay informed about local news and weather. Get the NBC Bay Area app for
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