California hospitals, which weeks ago were on the verge of rationing care, are now seeing a rapid decline in new admissions that should cut coronavirus hospitalizations in half in another month.
The state's top health officer, Dr. Mark Ghaly, said Tuesday that intensive care capacity that had hovered at zero is now rebounding across the hardest hit areas.
State officials had used plunging ICU capacities to issue stay-home orders for most of California during its worst surge.
But Dr. Ghaly said capacity is improving while positivity rates and other indicators are also promising.
Meanwhile, officials are putting even more effort into tracking coronavirus variants in the state. The fear is that a variant could cause another surge. The way that variants are tracked is with a process called sequencing, where scientists break down the exact components of the virus to see which variant it is.
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