Both the Bay Area and the whole nation are enjoying the lowest mid-January positive COVID testing rate in four years, and no discernible winter surge, though experts caution the surge could just come late.
You’ll recall we had a summer surge of COVID-19 infections, particularly in the Bay Area, fueled by the so-called FLiRT variant. That surge waned, though at the beginning of October, the LA Times declared “expect another spike in the coming months.”
And this was expected, as it had happened every year for the last four years in a row that Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings combined with cold weather produced a winter COVID surge. But that hasn’t happened, as the Chronicle reports that California has seen far fewer COVID cases so far through December and January, even as flu and RSV cases have surged…