Health experts are urging community members to exercise greater caution and mask up as Pasadena and the rest of Los Angeles County deal with a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases driven in large part by a highly contagious new variant. This variant, KP.3.
1.1, is causing a surge, especially among those who have previously avoided the virus. Experts attribute the rise to the variant’s increased transmissibility and its abilities to evade some immune defenses, combined with a general decline in immunity within the population.
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County, including Pasadena, have seen an increase in the total number of SARS COV-2 cases being reported in our laboratories, but also in our wastewater detection,” Dr. Matt Feaster, division manager of Epidemiology and Disease Control in the Pasadena Public Health Department, said Monday, Aug. 5.
This reflects the general trend in the area. Last week, the level of coronavirus particles in wastewater, a proxy of C.
