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“We are in such a different place than before with COVID. We may and will see an increase in people getting sick in the community, but a vaccine-heavy community like the Bay Area probably won’t be largely sick,” said Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco.
Chin-Hong’s prep list is simple: Get up-to-date on vaccines and flu shots, wash your hands well and frequently, and stay home when you're sick. Also, stock up on supplies like tissues, masks, cough drops, COVID tests and other medicines before getting sick. But cases of COVID-19 are slowly increasing again in San Francisco and across the nation, wastewater data show.
“I think we won’t see anything even close to last year or two years ago. They all seem to be flavors of Omicron right now,” said Chin-Hong, referring to different COVID-19 variants. “Covid has figured out the best formula and it’s hard to get much better than this amazing well-oiled virus that it’s created except incremental changes.”
It is often mild, and most infections go away on their own within a week or two, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Locally, San Francisco may be reaching that point too, underscoring the need to stay home when sick and take other basic precautions.Anyone can catch RSV, but people under 2 and over 65 years of age are most at risk of serious illness.While RSV has garnered much media attention recently, the common flu is simultaneously ramping up quietly and rapidly across the state.
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